Pam Ling

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Pam Ling (April 21, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an Asian-American doctor best known as a castmate on The Real World: San Francisco, the third season of MTV's long-running reality television show.

[edit] On the Real World

On the show, Ling was a member of Phi Beta Kappa member from Harvard, an overachiever, and in her third year of medical school. In the first few weeks of their stay in the house, she was finishing up a difficult rotation. Like castmate Mohammed Bilal, she was one of the more calm and low-key roommates, and was the one of the last roommates that Puck would agree to talk to during conflict resolutions with the rest of the house. She became close with castmates Pedro Zamora and Judd Winick, and three became inseparable, with Cory joining them halfway through their stay in San Francisco. She attempted to maintain a long-distance relationship with her then-boyfriend, and the roomies surprised her by having him visit San Francisco on her birthday, putting on a mock presentation of This is Your Life, with a tuxedo-wearing Judd as the announcer, and her boyfriend as the final person to appear. Unbeknownst to anyone, Judd had developed feelings of his own for Pam, and after she would get home late at night from work and fall asleep with a book across her lap and a pen in her hand, Judd would turn off her bedside lamp, put the book away and cover her up. Pam and Judd supported Pedro by attending his lectures whenever they could.

[edit] After the Real World

After the show ended, Ling and Winick’s relationship deepened during their visits to the hospitalized Pedro. They moved in together a year after their Real World stint. Winick propose to Ling in March 2000, wearing a gorilla suit. They married in a civil ceremony on August 26, 2001. Writer Armistead Maupin spoke at their ceremony. [1] They had a child in May 2005.

They also continued Pedro's work in AIDS education. Pam completed her residency in primary care at the University of California, San Francisco, in 1999, and entered into an AIDS-research fellowship.