About

Dr. Tina J Wang is a Performing Arts Medicine Specialist practicing with the Southern California Permanente Medical Group in the Southern California area. She practices general PM&R and performing arts medicine. She is also the site director for the Loma Linda PM&R residency.

Dr. Wang is the conservatory physician for A.B. Miller High School Dance Conservatory. She also works on a national level on the Dance/USA task force on Dancer Health. She is actively involved in research and advancement of the field of Performing Arts Medicine through her work on the Research Committee with the Performing Arts Medicine Association. She is also active with the International Association of Dance Medicine & Science.

Dr. Wang is a Wellesley College alumna and is actively involved in women's rights through the American Medical Women's Association and the Wellesley Women in Medicine group. Amongst these organizations, she works actively on multiple committees.

Dr. Wang started dancing at a young age with the Fine Arts Academy of Dance under Jana Faustino.  She later continued to study dance at Wellesley College and Boston Ballet School with Catherine Ulissey. She survived medical school in New Orleans by spending all her free time dancing under Sarah Duax, Jeanne Fernandez Bruno, and Margaret Jean Orr (Mary) Munro. Dr. Wang continues to dance at the Village Dance Arts.

In her youth, Dr. Wang studied the violin and piano under Philip Lu, a renowned Taiwanese composer and musician. She is now a mother and parent teaching her son how to play the violin through the Suzuki method under the guidance of violin teacher and Alexander practitioner Wendy Waggener. Both Wendy and Dr. Wang have a special focus on injury prevention in musicians and character development starting at a young age.

The first inklings of Tupelo Pointe started when Dr. Wang first set foot on the Wellesley College campus. Lulu Chow Wang was a speaker welcoming her to campus. Mrs. Wang had named her renowned financial firm, Tupelo Capital Management, after the Tupelo tree, known for its strength and resilience. As a young student, Dr. Wang often found herself stopping at Tupelo Point after her runs around Lake Waban to ponder the course of her life. In times of difficulties, she always remembers her roots first grounded at Wellesley upon the foundation of all the great women who came before.