Ee-Chuan Khoo, M.D., J.D., Memorial Scholarship

To say that Dr. Ee-Chuan Khoo was a learned man is a true, but a vast understatement. He was a perpetual student and a passionate professional, always seeking ways to learn how he might make life better for his patients.

Dr. Khoo was born in Singapore and came to the United States in 1949 to study. And study he did. He graduated with is baccalaureate degree from the University of Illinois and earned his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine. Then he did two fellowships, one in endocrinology at Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis, and a second in hematology at City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California

Mary was a fitting mate for Ee-Chuan. Like him, she had come to the United States from Singapore. With the help of scholarships, she attended Cottey College in Missouri for two years and then transferred to Northwestern University where she majored in chemistry. After graduation Mary became a hands-on research assistant to a professor at the University of Chicago.

Ee-Chuan and Mary were married almost 40 years and had one son, David. When they moved to Thousand Oaks in 1966, Mary managed the office of her husband’s internal medicine practice until he retired. But he didn’t really intend to “retire” in his retirement. Just three years earlier he had acquired his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Ventura College of Law, passing the state bar exam a year later. And he also earned a master’s degree in European law from Leicester University in England. But in 2001 when the couple was on a Caribbean cruise, Dr. Khoo became ill and died.

Mary Khoo created the Ee-Chuan Khoo, M.D., J.D., Memorial Scholarship, in his memory. The scholarship was funded in part through the many memorial gifts she received after her husband’s death. The recipient must be an upper-division student majoring in the medical sciences (biology, chemistry, physics, medical technology) and preferably planning to pursue graduate study in medicine or the medical sciences. Students of Chinese descent are considered for the scholarship.