Who Is Priscilla Chan

Dr. Priscilla Chan - the 30-year-old pediatrician and wife to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and CEO. In announcing their daughter's birth, the couple also pledged to donate 99% of their Facebook stock -- worth about $45 billion -- "during our lives" to promote equality and the human potential.




Priscilla Chan grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts, a town outside of Boston. Her parents immigrated to the United States in refugee boats. Chan attended Harvard University from 2003 to 2007. She earned a BA in biology and studied Spanish.


Chan then started medical school at the University of California, San Francisco in 2008.
She graduated around the time she married Zuckerberg, which was on May 19, 2012, the day after Facebook went public.
Chan's charitable goals are tied closely to her personal and professional backgrounds: mainly
education, healthcare and science. Together with her husband, Chan has donated more than $320 million to school systems, educational nonprofits and hospitals over the past few years.


Most recently, the couple donated $75 million to San Francisco General Hospital, where Chan worked. There is now a new trauma center and acute care wing named after Zuckerberg. The two also gave out awards for the Breakthrough Prize, a nonprofit organization they helped launch that grants winners $3 million for various scientific achievements.