Dr. Edmund Tse Photo by Huntington Hospital
Dr. Edmund Tse, a resident of San Marino, has been elected chief of staff at Huntington Memorial Hospital. A native of Hong Kong, Dr. Tse will lead a medical staff of more than 800 physicians at Huntington Memorial.
“Dr. Tse is tremendously passionate about his profession, our hospital and the patients he serves,” said Stephen Ralph, president and CEO of Huntington Hospital.
“We know that this commitment and enthusiasm will carry over into his new role of chief of staff, and all of us at the hospital are looking forward to working in partnership with him and our medical staff in finding new and even better ways to serve our community,” Ralph said.
Dr. Tse is a diplomat of both the American Board and Nephrology and the American Board of Internal Medicine.
He is currently a member of Pasadena Nephrology Medical Group, which is comprised of physicians specially trained to diagnose and treat conditions affecting the kidneys or renal system. He also serves as co-medical director of Huntington Dialysis Center in Pasadena.
Since joining Huntington Hospital’s medical staff in 1994, Dr. Tse has assumed numerous leadership roles including chairman of the department of medicine and chairman of the hospital’s pharmacy, therapeutics and diet committee.
Dr. Tse, 49, earned his medical degree at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia after attaining a Bachelor of Science degree (magna cum laude) in biochemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles.
He did his fellowship in nephrology at Stanford University Medical Center and his internship/residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
