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Dr. Victor Sta. Ana (pronounced “Santa Ana”) is a family physician, Medical Director of Homeless Services at the Institute for Family Health, and Director of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Primary Care Scholars Program. Dr. Sta. Ana graduated from Brown University with a concentration in Ethnic Studies and focus on Asian and African American literature.  He subsequently earned a Master’s Degree in Education and taught Science and Special Education in the NYC public school system.  In 2005 he changed careers to medicine, ultimately graduating from Albany Medical College and completing residency at the Institute for Family Health’s Beth Israel Residency in Urban Family Medicine. After residency he joined the faculty of the new Harlem Residency in Family Medicine where he continues to teach and provide patient care.

Since 2010, Dr. Sta. Ana has partnered with Damayan Migrants Workers Association, a grassroots organization dedicated to organizing low-wage Filipino workers, combating labor trafficking, promoting human and workers’ rights, and developing social justice leaders.  Through his work with Damayan, he conducts worker health assessments in support of their applications for legal immigration status as survivors of labor exploitation.  He has worked in community-based settings such as federally-qualified health centers, homeless shelters, food pantries, public schools and jails.  

In 2015 he was chosen to direct Mount Sinai’s Primary Care Scholars Program for medical students interested in careers in primary care for underserved communities, and in 2021 he was promoted to Medical Director of Homeless Services at the Institute for Family Health.  In this role he oversees five health centers for people with lived experience of homelessness. Dr. Sta. Ana also provides direct care at the Ali Forney Center for homeless LGBTQIA+ youth, and the Broadway Presbyterian Church for chronically homeless adults.

Dr. Sta. Ana has appeared in local and international news media advocating for domestic worker rights, advocated successfully at the state-level for homeless and runaway minors to consent to their own medical care, published, and has been invited to present locally, regionally and internationally on his clinical and advocacy work.  Dr. Sta. Ana lives in Queens, NY with his partner and 3-year old.

Dr. David Yang is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering and BSAS in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, MD from LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and his MHS from Yale University. He recently completed his emergency medicine residency through the Yale Emergency Scholars Program and his Yale Emergency Scholar and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) fellowship. 

Nationally, Dr. Yang has served as Mental Health Co-Chair for the Asian American Pacific Medical Students Association (APAMSA) and on the Equity and Inclusion Committee with the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). At the local level, he works closely with the sexual assault forensics committee and providing language concordant education to improve bystander interventions in cardiac arrest.

Dr. Yang’s current research focuses on addressing disparities of care in three domains. First, he examines the discrimination that healthcare workers face in the clinical setting with a particular focus on Asian Americans. Second, he focuses on improving the quality of care that survivors experience after a sexual assault. Third, he examines disparities in health outcomes and prehospital service utilization.

Jasmine is a third-year medical student at Yale School of Medicine. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University in 2021, with a second major in Medicine, Health, and Society. During her time at Vanderbilt, she founded the university’s Doctors Without Borders student chapter, focusing on serving both global and local communities. In Nashville, she established and developed public health workshops for local refugees with the goal of increasing health literacy on critical topics such as navigating the U.S. healthcare system and first aid.

Now in New Haven, Jasmine continues her commitment to community health by organizing Mandarin CPR workshops for local immigrants, training over 100 Mandarin-speaking individuals in the past year. She is passionate about improving community health and looks forward to integrating these efforts into her future career as a physician.

Dr. Zilin Cui is a PGY-2 psychiatry resident at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston, MA. She is interested in going into child and adolescent psychiatry. She graduated from UMass Medical School in 2023, and before that she completed my undergraduate studies at UChicago.

Contact information: Zilin.cui@bmc.org

Dr. Ishita Sunita Arora (she/her/hers) is a Faculty member at the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and a Research Fellow in Community Evaluation and Youth Programming at the Research Institute for Structural Change, Michigan State University. Dr. Arora is a clinical, community, and applied social psychologist who works with underserved and marginalized populations in the resource-limited settings of South Asia and the United States. As a psychotherapist and research scientist, her healthcare services focus on four core areas – (a) advancing health equity and evidence-based policy for women’s, reproductive and maternal health, (b) promotion of girl empowerment and prevention of gender-based violence, (c) advancing anti-racism, diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice, and (d) equitable access and utilization of mental healthcare among historically minoritized communities. Dr. Arora has expertise in community-engaged participatory research, mixed-methods research, program development and evaluation, implementation science, and violence prevention and intervention in academic medicine, community and not-for-profit organizations. Dr. Arora earned her Ph.D. in Human Services Psychology from the University of Maryland and a Master’s in Liberal Studies and Leadership from Ashoka University, India. Dr. Arora’s work is guided by anti-racist, anti-casteist, anti-oppressive, decolonial, and liberatory praxis.

Volunteer Health Interpreters Organization (VHIO) is a student-run organization at UC Berkeley that strives to eliminate language barriers in healthcare by providing free language interpretation and translation services in the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the past 17 years, we have worked with various healthcare organizations and medical schools to facilitate effective communication between providers and patients.

Many limited English proficient (LEP) patients do not have access to medical interpreters when they need the service, leading to lapses in understanding during the clinical encounter. A healthcare interpreter ensures that the patient and provider can communicate effectively, and in addition, acts as a cultural buffer and patient advocate.

Our presentation will explore what it means to have cultural competence vs. cultural humility when interacting with LEP patients of different cultural backgrounds, and how healthcare professionals can maintain a collaborative relationship with patients’ interpreters.

Contact information: cal.vhio@gmail.com

Henry Bronson Professor of Pharmacology and Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, Academician of Academia Sinica and Connecticut of Academia of Science, Chairman and founder of Consortium for Globalization of Chinese Medicine (CGCM)

Professor Yung-Chi Cheng has been a leader in cancer and viral pharmacology. There are four approved drugs in Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Hepatitis B (HBV), including the first anti-CMV drug, Gancylovillin and first anti-HBV drug, Lamivudine™ (3TC), discovered from his lab. Currently he has four additional drug candidates, including Chinese medicine PHY906 under clinical trials for the treatment of cancer, Hepatitis B Virus, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). His leadership in antiviral and anticancer research has been recognized by his service as a member and Chairman of the Therapeutic Study Section of NIH, a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the Division of Cancer Treatment of the National Cancer Institute, and a member of the AIDS Research Advisory Committee of NIH, a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association for Cancer Research. 

He is also chief consultant for many government and research institutions in Taiwan, mainland China and Hong Kong. He also holds honorary professors in more than 20 institutions in greater China. He is the founder of Society of Chinese Bioscientist in America which just celebrated 30 year birthday. He is also a consultant for many pharmaceutical firms and is the scientific founder of three biotechnology companies sponsored by Yale University, including Achillion who went public, PhytoCeutica who licensed its lead candidate drug PHY906, and Yiviva who is developing evidence-based botanical products to address aging-associated diseases. Throughout his career he has received numerous honors, including the Leukemia Society of America Scholar Award, the Rhodes Memorial Award from the American Association for Cancer Research, ASPET Award (Am Soc Pharm and Exp Therap), an Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute and Cheung on Tak Intl Award for Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Med among many others, Fellow of the National Foundation of Cancer research. He was the strategy consultant in biotech area for the Division of Science and Technology of Yunnan Province and has as academician working station in Quanming. He has received more than 10 honorary professor or doctor degrees from different institutes around the world.

Professor Cheng’s interests are in the development of new drugs and the improvement of the use of clinically proven drugs for the treatment and prevention of cancer, and cancer associated viruses such as herpes virus, human immunodeficiency virus or hepatitis B virus associ­ated diseases. The types of agents are deoxyribonucleoside analogs, folate analogs and compounds that interfere with DNA and RNA metabolism. Currently he is interested in exploring the potential uses of Chinese medicines for unmet clinical needs.

Eling Tsai is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist. She specializes in eating disorder treatment and prevention, weight-inclusive diabetes management, and family feeding. Eling received her Master of Public Health degree at the Yale School of Public Health and has experience in counseling and programming in a variety of settings, including private practice, hospitals, and community centers. 

Eling uses a Health at Every Size® and Intuitive Eating approach to support her clients in improving their health, well-being and outlook around food.  In addition to individual counseling, Eling enjoys educating groups about weight stigma, cultural competence in healthcare, and the joys of building a positive relationship with food and nutrition. 

Dr. Jake Gallagher completed his residency at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, a level 1 trauma center and had the privilege of performing OMT on a variety of patients from newborns to acutely ill patients in the ICU. He was also in residency during the covid pandemic, and experienced treating patients with OMT in that setting. Currently, outside of teaching at Touro, he works at his private practice in Stamford, CT, where he see many patients with forms of chronic pain, often incorporating OMT with home exercise planning and mindfulness practices (thinking about somato-emotional types of pain) when appropriate.

Dr. Oen-Hsiao is the Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation at the Yale New Haven Health Heart and Vascular Center. She is a non-invasive cardiologist, focusing on women’s heart health, prevention, and general cardiology.  She also sees patients in the office and also reads echocardiograms, nuclear stress tests, and cardiac CTs. She did her undergrad at Brown University and medical school at the Yale University School of Medicine.

Email: joyce.oen-hsiao@yale.edu

Barry J. Wu, MD, MACP received his BS degree in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MD from the University of Rochester. He completed his internal medicine residency at Yale New Haven Hospital. He is a Professor of Medicine and co-directs the first and last courses at Yale School of Medicine and recruits and trains 200 faculty involved in the clinical skills training and interprofessional education for medical, nurse practitioner and physician associate students. He co-directs the Connecticut Older Adult Collaboration for Health (COACH) 4M to enhance the geriatric workforce in primary care and is Chair of the Health Committee for the Yale China Association and collaborated on a model of residency training at Xiangya Hospitals adopted by the government of China. He is married with one son and faculty advisor for the Yale APAMSA Group, Yale ACP Internal Medicine Interest Group and Yale Health Professional Christian Fellowship. His email is barry.wu@yale.edu.

Yingfei Wu, MD, MPH completed her BS from the University of California, Los Angeles, MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin, and MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She trained in Internal Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and is currently a General Internal Medicine fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Wu served on her local APAMSA chapter board at the Medical College of Wisconsin as well as on the APAMSA National Board, including as National President from 2018-2021. Her research experience ranges from basic neuroscience research and qualitative community surveys to systematic reviews and analyses of large clinical trials. Dr. Wu is passionate about primary care and clinical research in chronic cardiometabolic diseases, especially in addressing health inequities for minority/underrepresented populations.

Dr. Hiroshi Sogawa is a multi-organ transplant surgeon, performing adult and pediatric liver, kidney, pancreas, and intestinal (multi-visceral) transplant, and hepatobiliary surgery (including robotic- assisted and laparoscopic liver resection and pancreas surgery). Dr. Sogawa has served as the associate director of adult and pediatric liver transplant. Prior to joining the medical staff at Westchester Medical Center, Dr. Sogawa served as Director of Abdominal Transplant Surgery Fellowship/Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, preceded by an appointment as Assistant Professor of Surgery at Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center. 

A graduate of the Shiga University of Medical Science in Shiga, Japan, Dr. Sogawa completed residency in general surgery and gastrointestinal surgery at the Tokyo Women’s Medical University Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. Then he came to the US and completed a residency in general surgery at the State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook. Following residency training, Dr. Sogawa completed a multi-organ transplant and hepatobiliary surgery fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Sogawa also completed a research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School for tolerance induction using mixed chimerism. 

Dr. Sogawa is Professor of Surgery, Vice Chair of Education, and Surgical Clerkship Director at the Department of Surgery, New York Medical College. Dr. Sogawa’s research interests focus on improving post-transplant outcomes, induction of clinical immunologic tolerance in transplant recipients, safety and efficacy of living donor liver transplantation, intestinal transplantation, and minimally invasive (robotic and laparoscopic) hepatobiliary surgery. He is a member of numerous committees at national and international organizations as well as an editorial board member of major surgical journals.

Dr. Mina L Xu, MD, is the Director of Hematopathology and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, specializing in diagnosing blood diseases and cancers. She is an internationally recognized academic pathologist and is also Director of Yale Pathology’s Expert Consultation Practice. Dr. Xu’s research focuses on the pathogenesis of hematopoietic malignancies, aiming to translate findings into diagnostic and therapeutic advancements in the field. Specifically, she is working on spatial multi-omics of lymphomas in transformation and in the development of novel cancer biomarkers.

Karen Chen is a second-year medical student from Dallas, TX at the Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S). She serves as the Columbia APAMSA chapter’s co-president. She is also the co-director of the Human Rights Clinic at Columbia. Karen graduated from Stanford University in 2022 with a B.S. in Computer Science and minor in Human Rights. Prior to medical school, Karen spent a year as Fulbright Research Scholar at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, conducting global health research to develop novel corneal transplant hydrogel alternatives for use in low-resource areas. Karen is passionate about AANHPI issues, driven by her desire to address the healthcare disparities at home and abroad, and hopes to serve as a voice for the AANHPI community in future career in medicine.

Kanoe Evile is a second year medical student at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. She grew up in the town of Haleiwa, HI on O’ahu in a Filipino-Samoan family that inspired her love for her community and Pacific Health. She completed her B.S. in Biological Engineering with a minor in Linguistics at MIT before entering the MD/PhD Program at Columbia. She is passionate about addressing Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) issues and looks forward to best serving these communities at the intersection of medicine and public health. Currently, she serves as the NHPI Director on the APAMSA National Board.

​​Ted Shi is a second-year medical student at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians in Surgeons. He is originally from Overland Park, Kansas and attended The University of Texas at Dallas, where he received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. In medical school, he serves as the social chair for the school’s APAMSA chapter, where he plans social events for the organization.

Maya Xia is a second-year MD-PhD student at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians in Surgeons. She is originally from Houston, TX and graduated from Vanderbilt University with a bachelor’s in Neuroscience. Prior to starting medical school, she worked at the National Institutes of Health, where she studied mechanisms underlying PTSD in mouse models. At Columbia, she serves as the culture and education chair for the school’s APAMSA chapter.

Dr. Ethan Daniel Fried is a graduate of the City College of New York, Sophie Davis School for Biomedical Education (a 7 year BS-MD program) and the SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine.  He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at SUNY Downstate-Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Cornell University Medical School – New York Hospital.  He has a Master’s Degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.  He also has a Master’s Degree in Health Professions Pedagogy and Leadership from Hofstra University.  Dr. Fried is currently Associate Chair for Education and Internal Medicine Residency Program Director at Lenox Hill Hospital, part of Northwell Health and Professor of Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Northwell/Hofstra.  He is also Associate Designated Institutional Official for Lenox Hill and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Northwell Health.  In 2012, Dr. Fried was inducted as a Master of the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Shwetha Iyer is Program Director of the Primary Care/Social Internal Medicine Program at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She received her medical degree from Temple University and completed her residency in the Primary Care/Social Internal Medicine Program Track at Montefiore. She developed and completed training as a global health faculty fellow in the Global Health and Clinical Skills Fellowship at Montefiore. Her area of interest includes medical education, specifically in curriculum development and coaching. She has adapted and teaches a weight management curriculum for residents, developed and co-directs the clinical reasoning curriculum, and has refined the advocacy and women’s health curriculum for the residency program. Her current curricular focus is the development of the Master Adaptive Learner model and structural competency in residency education.  Prior to her current position, she served as Associate Program Director for the Primary Care/Social Internal Medicine Program.

Dr Timothy B. Sullivan is Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the founding Program Director of the Psychiatric Residency Training Program, from 2013-2023, at Northwell Health/Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH); and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Donald and Barbara Zucker SOM at Hofstra/Northwell. After graduating from Dartmouth Medical College, he trained in Internal Medicine and Hematology-Oncology at Saint Vincents Hospital in Greenwich Village, New York; and subsequently pursued further training in Psychiatry at the New York Hospital Westchester Division, Cornell University Medical Center, where he then served as a member of the faculty for several years.

Dr Sullivan is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; Fellow of the International Society for Affective Disorders; Co-Chair of the Psychotherapy Section of the World Psychiatric Association; Vice President of the World Association for Dynamic Psychiatry, a member of the Executive Council for the World Federation of Psychotherapy, and Associate Editor of Psychodynamic Psychiatry. He is also Chair of the Education Committee for the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (AAPDPP).

Dr Sullivan, throughout his career, has been active in the communities where he has worked, maintaining relationships with and frequently lecturing to NAMI, as well as serving for several years as First Vice President of the Board of Westchester Arc, and as a member of the Board of Governors of NYSARC. He currently serves on the Board of Partners Health Plan, a first-in-the-nation managed care organization focused on providing quality care for individuals with developmental disabilities.

In addition to founding the psychiatry residency training program at SIUH when he arrived there in 2011, he has subsequently, in his role as Chair, focused on modernizing systems of care and recruiting teaching faculty from distinguished institutions; collaborated with other hospital departments on a variety of projects, including Integrated/Collaborative Care models; developed programs that improve the recognition and treatment of persons with substance use disorders in primary care settings; promoted efforts to enhance behavioral care for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and their families; participated in community public health initiatives targeting underserved communities and populations at risk, especially adolescents; and helped begin hospital programs addressing resident and physician wellness. His current area of academic interest is the structure of future psychiatric practice and the training/educational needs of future psychiatrists, with an emphasis on proposed models of psychotherapy training.

Dr. Walker-Descartes attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry where she obtained her Doctorate in Medicine. Upon graduating from medical school, she did a residency in Pediatrics at New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and subsequently pursued further training in a combined General Academic Pediatrics and Child Abuse Fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Dr. Walker-Descartes is currently on faculty at Maimonides Children’s Hospital of Brooklyn. In the Department of Pediatrics, she serves in two roles – one as a clinician and the other as an administrator. In her clinical roles, she practices General Pediatrics and a Child Abuse Pediatrics. As an administrator, she serves in the following roles: Program Director of the Pediatrics Residency training program, Fellowship Director for the Child Abuse Fellowship Program, the Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Pediatrics, and the Director of Child Maltreatment Services for the Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Walker-Descartes has published several articles as well as book chapters focused on the various forms of child maltreatment. Her involvement in child protection and advocacy also includes her involvement in several local and national professional organizations such as the AAP Chapter 2 Committee on the Prevention of Family Violence, the AAP Special Interest Group on Child Abuse and Neglect, the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), the New York State Child Abuse Medical Provider Program (CHAMP) and the Ray Helfer Society for Child Maltreatment Pediatricians. She has also served as a consultant for the New York City Administration for Children’s Services Accountability Review Panel that reviews the child fatalities across the five borough and continues to lend her skillsets wherever possible to advance the healthcare agenda for all vulnerable children.

Contact: (718) 283-7503

Steve Paik MD, EdM is the Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Admissions at the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University.

He earned his MD at the Boston University School of Medicine. He completed his Pediatric residency training and Chief Residency at the Babies and Children’s Hospital at Columbia University. He then went on to complete a Pediatric Academic Fellowship in Urban Community Health at Columbia. During his fellowship, he earned an EdM at Teachers College Columbia University in Adult Learning and Leadership. Dr. Paik is Board Certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Hospital Medicine, and he has served on faculty at NYU and Columbia as a Pediatric Hospitalist. He has served in pediatric residency leadership for 15 years (as Associate Program Director at NYU and Program Director at Columbia) prior to joining the Netter School of Medicine.

Dr. Paik has been an active member of the medical education community. He was in the first cohort of the Pediatric Academic Societies’ Educational Scholar Program. He has served as a faculty member for the Academic Pediatric Educator Excellence (APEX) Teaching Program.  He currently serves as a member of the AAMC Advancing Holistic Principles Advisory Committee.  His educational scholarly interests have included curriculum development and evaluation, faculty development, mentoring/coaching, professional identity formation, inclusive and equitable learning environments, skills development (teaching, feedback, conflict resolution, communication, and leadership).

Dr. Andy Nguyen, MD is a first year anesthesiology resident at Yale. As a first generation physician, he completed his undergraduate and medical school education through one of the inaugural cohorts of a combined BS/MD 7 year accelerated medical program at Augusta University and the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA where he grew up.  During his time in medical school, he used his more than decade long professional experience in photography and videography to merge digital media and medicine to build a social media platform culminating in over 300k in following and 50 million views across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and podcast streaming platforms. Most notably on YouTube (@ND M.D.) his 73Q interview series has created a library of resources that include testimonies from notable physicans of specialties ranging from psychiatry to plastic surgery such as Dr. America Revere, Dr. Jake Goodman, Doc Schmidt, Dr. Glaucomfleken, and much more. His experience traveling all around the country to share physician stories, directing and hosting multiple podcasts, using media experience to enrich medical school curriculum, and even being a TEDx speaker has been an example of the importance of maintaining creative passions in medical school and how important it is to share your story…because someone out there needs to hear it.

Dr. Karen Bach, MD, is a second-year plastic surgery resident at Yale. As a first-generation college graduate, she earned her Bachelor of Science in Physiological Sciences from UCLA. She then graduated from the University of Toledo College of Medicine in Ohio, where she was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Karen’s involvement with APAMSA began during her premed years, where she served as the national bone marrow director. Later, during her medical training, she founded the local regional chapter at her medical school as served as President. Her professional interests include addressing healthcare disparities across different ethnic groups, microsurgery, and hand surgery. During her leisure time, she enjoys traveling with her fiancé, exploring the newest food scene, and hanging out with her cat.

James Hwang is radiology resident at Yale University. He went to Duke University, where he studied biology with minors in Chemistry and Psychology. For medical school, he went to the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, which has multiple campuses. He was part of a program where I completed my first two years of medical school at the Rochester, Minnesota campus, and my clinical training years at the Jacksonville, Florida campus. Radiology requires a preliminary year, which he completed at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Santa Clara, California. He is now in my first year at Yale, and he intends to complete a radiology fellowship in the future. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with my fiancé, friends, and family, along with traveling, both nearby and internationally. He is passionate about lifelong learning and mentorship and would love to connect with those with questions for him.

Contact information: james.hwang@yale.edu, Twitter @jameshwang214

Arvin Saleh is currently a CA1/PGY2 anesthesiology resident at Yale in New Haven. Arvin grew up in the US Pacific Northwest, Indonesia, and Singapore, before earning his undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. During his undergraduate studies, Arvin spent 4 months researching agriculture and nutrition policy in Nepal. Arvin then moved north to Boston to pursue his MD/MPH at Tufts. During this period, he spent a year living in Tanzania researching child growth and development outcomes. Arvin’s professional interests include global health, critical care, and pediatric anesthesiology. During his spare time, Arvin enjoys cooking, trying to cultivate a green thumb, and saving up to get more travel experiences. He can be reached at arvin.saleh@yale.edu.

Dr. Amanda Zhou is a PGY3 dermatology resident. She went to college at the University of Southern California and medical school at Yale. In medical school, she was involved in medical education, medical student wellness, the humanities in medicine, and basic science research in a dermatology lab studying skin cancer prevention. In residency, she is on the Clinician Educator track and continues to focus on medical education and wellness, including serving as a member of the Graduate Medical Education Committee and being a “Friend” in Yale’s “Call a Friend” one-on-one peer support initiative.

Melissa Calica

Region 1 Director
Tufts University School of Medicine

Stephen Lin

Region 1 Director
University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine

Ruby Chung

Region 2 Director
SUNY Downstate
College of Medicine

Ker-Cheng (KC) Chen

Region 2 Director
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

Yue Jiao Jiang

Region 2 Director
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine Harlem

Sarah Lee

Region 2 Director
New York University Grossman Long Island School of Medicine

Paul Tominez

Membership Vice President
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

Isabel Wang

Co-President
Yale School of Medicine

Emily Xu

Co-President
Yale School of Medicine

Ashley Wang

Event Planning Co-Chair
Yale School of Medicine

Tiffany Jiang

Event Planning Co-Chair
Yale School of Medicine

Rebecca Chang

Service and Conference Co-Chair
Yale School of Medicine

Joyce Quon

Service and Conference Co Chair
Yale School of Medicine

Javieer Singh

Treasurer
Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Lan Ðoàn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health Section for Health Equity at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Her work is centered on the structural drivers of health and has focused on cardiovascular disease and psychosocial factors, including quality of life and depression, among Asian American older adults and how neighborhood deprivation modifies the impact of these determinants. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with expertise in analysis of complex datasets, with a focus on aging and aging-related processes, data disaggregation, immigrant health, and social environments. Her research is motivated by a commitment to promoting health equity for historically marginalized communities through meaningful, community-engaged research and collaborations. Dr. Ðoàn completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and received her PhD in Public Health, with an emphasis on Health Promotion and Health Behavior and minor in Biological Data Sciences, from Oregon State University.

Dr. Miller attended the George Washington University, where he studied journalism, biology and public health, and also completed medical school. He moved to New York City to complete his residency training in internal medicine at NYU, where he also completed his fellowships in cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, and served as the senior chief resident of internal medicine. Following his training, Dr. Miller joined the NYU faculty, and served as the Senior Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program for nearly a decade; his clinical practice was primarily at Bellevue Hospital. He currently serves as Assistant Dean for Career Advisement at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, the Director of Clinical Cardiology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and as the Associate Program Director of the Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at NS/LIJ.

Dr. Tsai serves as President of New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, as well as Delafield-Rodgers Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In addition, he serves as Founding Director of the Center for Ophthalmic Artificial Intelligence and Human Health (COAIHH) and Co-Founder/Executive Advisor of the Center for Asian Equity and Professional Development (CAEPD), both at Icahn Mount Sinai. Prior to joining Mount Sinai, he served as Robert R. Young Professor and Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at Yale University School of Medicine. Tsai has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and 80 additional articles, chapters, and textbooks, including the Oxford American Handbook of Ophthalmology and Medical Management of Glaucoma (4 editions). He also serves on the Administrative Board of the Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems (COTH) of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Immediate Past President of the International Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology (IJCAHPO).

Dr. Ethan Daniel Fried is a graduate of the City College of New York, Sophie Davis School for Biomedical Education (a 7 year BS-MD program) and the SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine.  He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at SUNY Downstate-Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Cornell University Medical School – New York Hospital.  He has a Master’s Degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.  He also has a Master’s Degree in Health Professions Pedagogy and Leadership from Hofstra University.  Dr. Fried is currently Associate Chair for Education and Internal Medicine Residency Program Director at Lenox Hill Hospital, part of Northwell Health and Professor of Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Northwell/Hofstra.  He is also Associate Designated Institutional Official for Lenox Hill and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Northwell.Health.  In 2012, Dr. Fried was inducted as a Master of the American College of Physicians.  This presentation will be the 16 th time he has given the opening plenary at the APDIM Chiefs Meeting.

Dr. Con is an Attending in the Department of Surgery, Division of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and an active researcher with numerous publications. He was the former Program Director for the Department of Surgery Residency Program, a role he held for 6+ years. During that time he developed a research track within the residency and mentored surgical trainees into obtaining competitive fellowships. Dr. Con continues to be involved in surgical education, clinical outcomes research and mentorship

Dr Timothy B. Sullivan is Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and was the founding Program Director of the Psychiatric Residency Training Program, from 2013-2023, at Northwell Health/Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH); and he is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Donald and Barbara Zucker SOM at Hofstra/Northwell. After graduating from Dartmouth Medical College, he trained in Internal Medicine and Hematology-Oncology at Saint Vincents Hospital in Greenwich Village, New York; and subsequently pursued further training in Psychiatry at the New York Hospital Westchester Division, Cornell University Medical Center, where he then served as a member of the faculty for several years.

Dr Sullivan is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; Fellow of the International Society for Affective Disorders; Co-Chair of the Psychotherapy Section of the World Psychiatric Association; and Associate Editor of Psychodynamic Psychiatry He is also Chair of the Education Committee for the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (AAPDPP).

Dr Sullivan has throughout his career been active in the communities where he has worked, maintaining relationships with and frequently lecturing to NAMI, as well as serving for several years as First Vice President of the Board of Westchester Arc, and as a member of the Board of Governors of NYSARC. He currently serves on the Board of Partners Health Plan, a first-in-the-nation health insurance company marketed to individuals with developmental disabilities.

In addition to founding the psychiatry residency training program at SIUH when he arrived there in 2011, he has subsequently in his role as Chair focused on modernizing systems of care and recruiting teaching faculty from distinguished institutions; and also collaborated with other hospital departments on a variety of projects, including Integrated/Collaborative Care models; programs that improve the recognition and treatment of persons with substance use disorders in primary care settings; initiatives to enhance behavioral care for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and their families; community public health initiatives targeting underserved communities and populations at risk, especially adolescents; and resident and physician wellness. His current area of academic interest is the structure of future psychiatric practice and the training/educational needs of future psychiatrists, with an emphasis on proposed models of psychotherapy training.

Nadine A. Chang, Ph.D. is Senior Psychologist, Psychology Training Director, and Chair of the Asian Psychiatry Program Committee at Gracie Square Hospital, a freestanding inpatient psychiatric hospital affiliated with NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Chang also holds faculty appointments as Assistant Attending Psychologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychology in Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Chang earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology at New York University and Ph.D. in Clinical and School Psychology at Hofstra University. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine with Dr. Aaron Beck, receiving the NIH National Research Service Award for this work. Dr. Chang was recently awarded a grant from the New York Community Trust to fund community outreach efforts with Asian communities in NYC. Dr. Chang’s interests continue to focus on implementing and disseminating cognitive-behavioral interventions for psychosis and other severe and persistent mental illnesses, suicide prevention and Asian American mental health.

Dr. Mike Zhou is a psychiatrist by training and currently serves as the Medical Director of Hamilton-Madison House, community non-profit in New York City specializing in Asian-American and immigrant mental health. In this position, he works with therapists, caseworkers, and peers – most of whom are fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, or Japanese — across various treatment programs including substance use, child and adolescent mental health, and personalized recovery from severe-persistent mental illness. In addition, he maintains a small private practice and continues to participate in resident education and supervision in the Mount Sinai system. Prior to these positions, he completed medical training at the State University of New York – Downstate College of Medicine and residency in psychiatry at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, where he served as the chief resident of the long-term psychotherapy program. He was born in China originally before immigrating to the US with his family in grade school, and where possible he uses Mandarin and these life experiences to facilitate his work.

Christie Kim (she/her), LMHC, is a second-generation Korean American psychotherapist who works alongside individuals and couples to cultivate curiosity, healing and authentic connection. Christie is attuned to a holistic sense of health that spans across emotional, relational, spiritual and physical wellness. Christie received her EdM and MA in Psychological Counseling at Teachers College, Columbia University, and her BS in Applied Psychology at New York University. In addition to her practice, Christie is the co-founder of Bridges Mental Health which connects Asian, Pacific Islander, South Asian Americans with culturally-affirming mental health care and builds community for the professionals who serve them. Along with the Bridges team, Christie co-hosts “Beyond the Couch”, a weekly podcast exploring Asian American mental health and identity.

To Shan Li teaches osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) at the New York Institute of Technology- College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) and also provides osteopathic manipulative care and acupuncture for patients at the college’s two academic health care centers. His research activities have included the study of the effects of OMM on constipation in subjects with Parkinson’s disease, on type 2 diabetes, and on cardiac arrhythmias in patients with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices. He also co-authored a paper in 2021 with APAMSA students at NYITCOM based on research that assessed the knowledge of the osteopathic profession in the South Asian population of Hicksville, Long Island. Dr. Li graduated with distinction from Cornell University in 1991 with an A.B. in Biological Sciences. He attended the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his residency in family practice. He is board certified in family medicine, osteopathic manipulative medicine, and integrative medicine. He continues to explore health through the study and practice of osteopathy, eastern medicine, and qigong, and has led qigong workshops for students to alleviate stress and promote wellness. He enjoys spending time with his family, reading, walking, and photography.

Ruey Hu, MD, MPH is a cardiovascular outcomes researcher and third-year fellow in cardiovascular medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He was voted by Yale medical students as outstanding fellow teacher of the year in 2021, voted by Yale medical residents as the Department of Medicine’s 2022 Fellow of the Year, voted by APAMSA medical students as 2023 Alumnus of the Year, and voted by Yale emergency medicine residents as the 2023 Consultant of the Year. Originally from Canada, Dr Hu served as national president of APAMSA 2016-2018. He completed his AB at Princeton University, MD and residency at Vanderbilt University, and MPH in epidemiology and biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where he was inducted into the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society. A metabolomics researcher, he is a two-time winner of the NKF National Young Investigators’ Forum. His research has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and Annals of Internal Medicine. His tool for guideline directed medical therapy, GDMT.org, has been recognized by the American Heart Association and is used by clinicians in 70 countries. He is an active peer reviewer for cardiology and nephrology journals and serves on the intern selection committee of the Yale internal medicine residency program.

Alex Choy, MD is currently a third year cardiology fellow at the Mount Sinai Hospital planning to do additional sub-specialty training in cardiac electrophysiology. He studied biomedical engineering at Tufts University before receiving his medical degree at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He moved on to complete his internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Hospital. He served on the national APAMSA executive board from 2014-2018 as in the communications branch and as strategy director and has returned to give lectures as part of the APAMSA Intern Boot camp. He is passionate about medical education and has received several awards for his commitment to teaching medical trainees.

Yingfei Wu, MD, MPH completed her BS in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles, MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin, and MPH in epidemiology and biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and is currently a General Internal Medicine fellow at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital. She has served on her local APAMSA chapter board at the Medical College of Wisconsin as well as on the APAMSA National Board, including as National President from 2018-2021. Her research experience ranges from basic neuroscience research and qualitative community surveys to systematic reviews and secondary analyses of large randomized clinical trials. Dr. Wu is passionate about primary care and clinical research in chronic cardiometabolic diseases, especially in addressing health inequities for minority/underrepresented populations.

Katie is a first year gastroenterology fellow at NYU. She initially became involved with APAMSA as a medical student at Sidney Kimmel Medical College and was one of the Hepatitis B Conference directors, which fueled her passion for GI and hepatology, along with demonstrating the strength of the APAMSA community. After medical school, she completed her internal medicine residency at Cleveland Clinic. She is interested in serving immigrant and refugee communities, and is excited to give back as an alumni to APAMSA, as it has brought her a lot of great friends and memories!

Dr. Jaclyn L. Chen is a current child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at AECOM/ Montefiore Medical Center. Her journey into medicine began as a premed engineering student at Cornell, and her senior thesis would lead her to presenting breakthrough neuroscience research around the world. She worked in the hospitality & mixology industry before completing medical school and psychiatry residency at Stony Brook Medicine. Dr. Chen is a Manhattan native who enjoys frequenting coffee shops, fitness classes, and speakeasies. She is a published poet, former competitive swimmer, and competitive chess player. Her nonprofit work focused on AAPI empowerment includes serving on the national boards of ECAASU, APAMSA, and, more recently, Project by Project (NY). She is currently on the medical board of NYCCAP (psychiatrists) and enjoys sharing wellness tips on social media. In her free time, she can be found perfecting her sourdough bread recipe, baking a fresh new batch of macarons, or pouring her heart out to all of the Frenchies at Central Park!

Skylar Luu

Region I Director
Albany Medical College

Dennis Dea

Region I Director
University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine

Ruby Chung

Region II Director
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

Wenqi Qiu

Region II Director
New York Medical College

Steven Wei-Chieh Tseng

Region II Director
New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM)

Matthew Ho

Region II Director
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Crystal Choi

Membership Vice President
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

Jason Hu

Fundraising & Events Director
New York University Grossman School of Medicine

Annie Liu

Jeffrey Park