Dr. James Tang was born in Canton (Guangzhou), China in 1948. He immigrated to Houston when he was three or four years old when his father attended Rice University as a graduate student. He attended the Kinkaid School on a scholarship from 1963 1966. He went on to attend Princeton as an undergraduate and then attended Stanford Medical School. After completing his plastic surgery residency at UTMB in Galveston, Texas, he moved to Houston and founded his own plastic surgery practice in 1983. He is married and has three sons. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, playing golf, and working with the Princeton Alumni Association, Chinese American Doctors Association, and Chinese Professional Club.
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