If
you ask Donna Ching Fang Kao what the most important aspect of a
professional career is, she is definitely not going to say money. Ms.
Kao is an established professional who has built a career on the
needs and challenges facing her local community. Rather than
selfishly pursuing a career that is self-serving, Ms. Kao has used
the personal challenges in her life to motivate her career path in
order to help the people around her. As the daughter of a medical
physician and registered nurse, Ms. Kao initially started her career
in the healthcare industry. After receiving a Nursing Education
Scholarship, she decided to pursue her Bachelor’s of Science at the
University of Public Health Nursing School in Taipei, Taiwan.
While
her foundational medical expertise is an important aspect of her
career, another title was important to Donna Kao –a respectedbusinesswoman. After forming relationships with two major real
estate developers in Taiwan who were building hospitals, clinics,
physical therapy centers, and other medical facilities, Ms. Kao
realized that real estate could be a means of bringing healthcare to
more people than just her patients. After moving to the United
States, she obtained her real estate license from the State of
California. Now, armed with a medical degree and a real estate
license, Ms. Kao established a free clinic for the Chinese community
in Southern California.
She
also received a Spa Hospitality Management Certificate and used this
credential to open the Beverly Hills Anti-Aging Group clinic. Within
her local community of Asian immigrants, she wanted to bring
accessible healthcare to a percent of the population that otherwise
not receive it. For the last two years, Donna Kao has been working as
the Professional Elderly Care Consultant for the Qiao Garden Group,
formerly the Watanabe Group. The Qiao Garden Group, established in
1989, engages in commercial real estate investment and development.
This includes real estate in the chain vacation health industry,
chain office industry, high-end dining industry, and the cultural
media industry.
For
Donna Kao – diversity and real estate go hand in hand. Her
personal experiences as an immigrant give her an intimate
understanding of the challenges that face people trying to work and
live in the United States. Understanding these bureaucratic
challenges led Ms. Kao to establish an Asian specific marketing and
consulting office for the Monterey Park Hospital. This service helps
immigrants deal with the bureaucratic challenges of immigrating to
the United States. Her ultimate goal is to improve the quality of
life for immigrants in the United States, as well as improving the
relations between the United States and China.
