Born and raised in Honolulu, Dr. Pang graduated with Honors from Princeton University with a degree in Chemistry. He received an MD and Masters in Public Health Degree from Tulane.

Board Certification in Preventive Medicine, Dr. Pang worked for 20 years with the Walter Reed Overseas Research Laboratories, assigned to Bangkok, Rio de Janeiro and Geneva, developing drugs and diagnostics for tropical diseases. He is a consultant to the World Health Organization since 1985 on tropical diseases. Dr. Pang retired and moved to Maui as the District Health Officer position in 2000, and has about 5 dozen publications in peer reviewed medical journals covering rabies, HIV, malaria, hepatitis E, and most recently dengue, and was selected in years 2006-8 to America’s Best Doctors list (3% of US physicians).

Dr. Pang speaks about the dangers of Genetic Engineering in our interview today.

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Articles on Dr. Lorrin Pang

Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Sierra Club, Maui Chapter
Genetically Engineered Organisms, Are They Safe?

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