“Dr. Huang is a caring, compassionate, and courageous doctor/colleague/friend with an impressive educational background and resume. Equally important, Dara is someone who has managed to turn personal tragedy into triumph. By attending to the needs of often overlooked patient populations in a unique way, she has shown to have the capacity to transcend the ‘hand she has been dealt’ by actively infusing something of herself into the world and thereby contributing to the greater whole. In my mind, Dr. Huang is ‘da bomb.’ She has been instrumental to several of my psychotherapy patients during the pandemic, especially those with marijuana use disorder. Under Dr. Huang’s care, my patient successfully transitioned into the NYS Medical Marijuana program and I’m proud to say, he no longer self-medicates with unregulated marijuana products.”