Dr Alvin Cheung is one of the seven initial financial sponsors and the Founding President of California Northstate University. Over the last nine years, Dr. Cheung has mobilized a great number of physicians and pharmacists and a few technical professionals to establish this University.

Dr. Cheung began his professional career with Kaiser Permanente and advanced to the senior executive level over a 30-year period in the Northern California Kaiser Permanente Region with a fiscal responsibility of $800 million overseeing the pharmacy operations in 9 hospitals and 45 clinics.  He is a passionate educator and has taught pharmacology for 27 years in the Nursing Program at American River College.