Albert C. Gaw, M.D.

2006 Kun-Po Soo Award Recipient

Lecture Title: Culture, Spirituality and Psychiatry: A Psycho-historical Study of King Saul

Dr. Gaw, born in Lucena, Quezon Province, Philippines, earned his medical degree from the University of the East College of Medicine in 1964. He served as a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco and held various prestigious positions, including Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University and Director of Cross-Cultural Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts. Additionally, he lectured at Harvard Medical School and was a professor at UCSF. Dr. Gaw was the first Asian American Speaker of the Assembly from 2002 to 2003, a Distinguished Life Fellow, and received the Kun-Po Soo award in 2006.