May Hong, MD is a board-certified family physician and academic medicine leader with more than 15 years of experience in physician training, curriculum design, and rural health system development. She serves as the Family Medicine Residency Program Track Director for the Coast Rural Training Track at Sutter Coast Hospital in Crescent City, where she oversees resident education and clinical development with an emphasis on preparing physicians to practice the full spectrum of family medicine in rural and underserved communities.

From 2017 to 2024, Dr. Hong held key graduate medical education leadership roles at Providence St. Joseph Hospital, including Family Medicine Residency Program Director, Director of Graduate Medical Education, and Designated Institutional Official. In partnership with Open Door Community Health Centers, she helped establish and grow an accredited family medicine residency program, strengthening the regional primary care workforce pipeline and expanding training capacity for the North Coast.

From March 2024 through August 2025, she served as assistant regional dean for the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine Northern California Satellite Campus. In this role, she expanded clinical rotation opportunities and built academic–community partnerships across Humboldt County, including facilitating an articulation agreement with Cal Poly Humboldt to support local premedical pathways.

Dr. Hong earned her MD from the University of Texas Medical Branch and completed family medicine residency training through the Austin Medical Education Program. She began her academic medicine career in 2014 as core faculty and an Assistant Professor at Baylor Scott & White Healthcare in Temple. Her professional development includes the National Institute for Program Director Development fellowship through the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors and the Psychiatry in Primary Care Train New Trainers Fellowship at University of California, Irvine.

A committed leader in organized medicine, she has served as President of the Humboldt-Del Norte County Medical Society and as a delegate within the California Medical Association. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Emundi Foundation, Dr. Hong contributes strategic expertise in clinical education, institutional leadership, and physician workforce planning to advance the creation of a new medical school for California’s North State.

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