Joel C. Ang, M.D., FAAFP

Dr. Ang was born in Manila, Philippines and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. He obtained his pre-medical degree from Duke University in Chemistry and Art History. He received his medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was an Idol and Morehead scholarship recipient. Dr. Ang obtained his medical internship training in Family Practice at the Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington and completed his residency at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in South Bend, Indiana where he was a Chief Resident.

Dr. Ang is Board Certified by the American Board of Family Practice and has received the status of Diplomate. Prior to moving to Washington, DC, Dr. Ang practiced Medicine at the Wake Health Services, where he worked mostly with the Latino population and migrant farm workers. He is a member of the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians and the American Academy of HIV Medicine.

Dr. Ang served as a Community Advisory Board member for the Seattle Treatment Education Project in HIV/AIDS and has worked at the San Francisco General Hospital HIV/AIDS clinic and the BC Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada In South Bend, IN, Dr. Ang served as a Board member for the AIDS Ministry/AIDS Asst program where he was a speaker at educational events.
Dr. Ang is fluent in Spanish, Tagalog, Hokkien Chinese, and English.

In 2011, Dr. Ang was peer nominated as one of the U.S. News and World Report 701 top Family Medicine physicians in the U.S

Dr. Ang is also an accomplished violinist and played with the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra, Washington, DC and the World Doctors Orchestra until 2011.  Family Practice News featured Dr. Ang in an article on the relationship between physicians and music, "Physicians Take the Stage" by Doug Brunk.

In May 2008 Dr. Ang was selected as first violinist in the first concert of the World Doctor's Orchestra in Berlin, Germany. His participation  continues with concerts in 2009 at Severance Hall, Cleveland Ohio and Berlin. 2010 Concers were in Taipei and Berlin. 

2011 will find the World Doctors Orchestra at Strathmore Hall, Bethesa Maryland on September 11, 2011 in a commerative concert.

The concerts benefit a non-profit clinic in South Africa, as well as selected organizations in the host cities. 

Joel Ang, M.D. was previously the Concertmaster of the Duke University Symphony Orchestra and has studied with Hsiao-Mei Ku of the Ciompi Quartet at Duke University. He currently studies with William Haroutounian of the National Symphony Orchestra and plays a violin by Bernard Simon Fendt c. 1842.

Photo used with permission of the Cleveland Plain Dealer,, Copyright 2009 Plain Dealer Publishing.