Learn to take care of your skin

SUNSHINE CLUB

Dr. David Rae Park will speak to the Sunshine Club about skin infections on Friday, Sept. 15, in Clubhouse 3, Room 2, at 10 a.m.

There are many different types of skin infections, most are acute but some can become chronic, including bacterial, viral and fungal infections. There are also skin manifestations of more serious infections such as blood stream infection called sepsis or septic syndrome.

Dr. Park will cover more common skin infections including viral infections such as HSV and shingles, which is reactivation of prior viral infection. He will also cover prevention, treatment, and complications of shingles, which have become more preventable with availability of new shingles vaccines.

Dr. Park is a U.S. trained, Korean-American family physician who grew up in Chicago and went to University of California at Berkeley for his undergraduate education. He attended the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria for four years and finished three years of post-graduate training in Family Medicine at the Adventist Hinsdale Hospital in Hinsdale, Illinois.

He has been in continuous medical practice in family medicine for 30 years from when he started his residency in 1993. He has practiced in rural Illinois, Battle Creek, Michigan, and Tampa, Florida, before he and his family went to China to work in Beijing and Tianjin at the private international hospital system, where he worked for four and a half years with the locals and experts, as well as young doctors.

Dr. Park has been in California since he came back to the U.S. in 2018, and has been with Optum California for over three years. To get to know his patients, he provides meaningful care and support, and develops a therapeutic relationship of trust.

Dr. Park is available for new patients. He is fluent in English and Korean. To make an appointment at the Health Care Center, call 562-493-9581.

All residents are welcome to join this meeting. The Sunshine Club requires no membership fees, but donations are welcome. People are asked to arrive promptly to the meeting.

For more information, contact Anna Derby at 562-3015339.