Priscilla Chan (born February 24, 1985) is an American paediatrician and philanthropist. She is married to the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. Born and raised in Massachusetts, she attended Harvard University for undergrad and received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Chan was born in Braintree, Massachusetts,[2] and grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. Her parents were Hoa Chinese refugees who fled Vietnam in refugee boats to escape racial persecution and oppression from the Vietnamese Communist government. She grew up speaking Cantonese and served as an interpreter for her grandparents.
Chan entered Harvard University in 2003, where she met and began dating Mark Zuckerberg. She graduated in 2007 with a BA in biology, and also studied Spanish. She is fluent in Cantonese, English and Spanish. She is the first college graduate in her family.
After graduation, she taught science at the private Harker School for a year, before entering medical school at the University of California, San Francisco in 2008. She graduated in 2012, and finished her pediatric residency in the summer of 2015.[5] She married Zuckerberg on May 19, 2012, a day after Facebook's stock market launch.