Cast : Cristina Yang

CHARACTER

Seattle Grace Hospital
Intern Quarterly Evaluation

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Physician's Name : Cristina Yang
Service : Surgery
Evaluator's Name : Dr. Calliope Torres
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Strengths:
Having achived both medical and doctorate degrees, it's no question that Cristina is indeed a genius. And Yang knows the heart inside out. I must say, she will do ANYTHING to be a Cardio.

Weaknesses:
Cristina unfortunately doesn't seem to have the most delicate of beside manners. She tends to focus solely on the medical, sometimes forgetting that some patients are more sensitive than others. Even if she can sofeten up a tiny bit and realize there is more to surgery than just the actual cutting, Yang will easily become an excellent surgeon. And maybe if she learns her interns actual names, rather than just calling them numbers. That would help her as well.

Past Performance at SGH:
An amazing student, Yang's dedication, however, in my opinion, sometimes borders on the extreme side. She did compromise her career in helping to hide Dr. Burke's tremor last year, literally becoming his right hand in surgery, even doing some procedures completely on her own. But to her credit, she made the right decision and went to the chief to inform him of Burke's disability.

Additional Comments:
A quick personal note: There's a grat deal of pressure when one works with one's significant other, therefore I'd like to commend Yang on the way she eventually handles the Burke situation.

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RESEMU

EDUCATION

B.A., Smith College
Double Major: Chemistry, French Literature
Minor: Mathematics
GPA: 4.0 (Valedictorian)
Graduated with Honors, Summa Cum Laude

M.S./Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of California-Berkeley
Dissertation: Reactive Sulfur Compounds in the Stratosphere: Observations, Transport, and Photochemistry.

M.D., Standford University
Ranked First in Class at Graduation


HONORS & REWARDS

1st Place Northern California Equestrian Junior Championship, 1989, 1990
2nd Place Equestrian Junior Nationals, Arlington, VA, 1991
Valedictorian, Beverly Hills High School
Team Captain of National Champion Brain Bowl Team at Smith Awarded the Antoine de Saint-Exupry Prize For Mastery of Pre-Modern French Literature at the French Collegiate Congress Received Arliss T. Howard Award of Excellence for "Outstanding achievements in the field of Chemistry"


SKILLS

Ballet
Fluent in Korean & French
Computer languages: COBALT, HTML, C++

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ACTOR

Cristina Yang
AS PLAYED BY SANDRA OH

Born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, Sandra Oh started ballet lessons at the age of four and performed in her first play, "The Canada Goose," at the age of ten. She started working professionally at age sixteen in television, theatre and commercials.

After three years at the prestigious National Theatre School of Canada, she beat out more than 1000 other hopefuls and landed the coveted title role in the CBC telefilm, "The Diary of Evelyn Lau," based on the true story of a tortured poet who ran away from home and ended up a drug addict and prostitute in Vancouver. Her performance brought her a Gemini (Canada's Emmy) nomination for Best Actress and the 1994 Cannes FIPA d'Or for Best Actress.

Oh won her first Genie (Canada's Oscar) for her leading role in "Double Happiness," a bittersweet coming-of-age story about a young Chinese-Canadian woman, She moved to Los Angeles in 1996 to begin the first of six seasons as Rita Wu, the smart and sassy assistant on the HBO comedy series, "Arli$$," for which she won a Cable Ace Award for Best Actress in a Comedy. Additional television credits include HBO's "Six Feet Under" and Showtime's "Further Tales of the City." She was nominated for an Emmy Award in both 2005 and 2006 and recently won a Golden Globe Award (Best Actress in a Supporting Role), a Screen Actors Guild Award (Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series) and a Diversity Award (2005 Creative Liberty Award) for her portrayal of Cristina on "Grey's Anatomy."

On the big screen Oh could most recently be seen in the films "The Night Listener," "3 Needles" and "For Your Consideration." She starred in "Sideaways" (for which she recieved a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture), "Hard Candy" and "Sorry Haters." Other feature films include "Under the Tuscan Sun" with Diane Lane, "Dancing at the Blue lguana," "Rick," "Bean," "Guinevere," "The Red Violin," "Waking the Dead," "The Princess Diaries," "Pay or Play," and "Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity." For "Last Night," a Canadian film about the end of the world, Oh won her second Genie Award for Best Actress.

In summer 2006, Oh starred in the play "Satellites" at New York's Public Theater for playwright Diana Son, and received both Drama Desk and Drama League nominations for her performance. She starred additionally in the world premieres of Son's "Stop Kiss," for which she received a Theatre World Award, and Jessica Hagedorn's "Dogeaters" ar the La Jolla Playhouse. She was also recently seen in the "Vagina Monologues" in New York.

Oh resides in Los Angeles.

Source : http://abc.go.com/primetime/greysanatomy/