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Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, Dr. Russell Jeung is an author of books and articles on race and religion. In March 2020, Dr. Jeung co-founded Stop AAPI Hate with Chinese for Affirmative Action and the AAPI Equity Alliance. It tracks incidents of COVID-19 discrimination to develop policy interventions and long-term solutions to racism. Dr. Jeung has been named as one of the TIME 100 Most Influential Persons, as well as the Bloomberg 50 and Politico 40 most impactful persons.

Dr. Li is an Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin.  He received his A.B. degree in religion at Princeton University and M.D. degree and medicine internship at Kansas University, and completed his pediatric residency, chief residency, and fellowship in gastroenterology and nutrition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Li co-founded the Asian American Student Association at Princeton (1971) and the national Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association in 1995 and continues to serve as the faculty advisor to the MCW and University of Wisconsin APAMSA Chapters, and national APAMSA.

Dr. Lee received his bachelor’s degree in Engineering Sciences at Harvard University and obtained his medical degree from the University of Maryland. He completed his residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Chicago and a fellowship in abdominal imaging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston. Dr. Lee is a private practice radiologist in Los Alamitos, CA. He was one of the original student organizers that helped lead to the formation of APAMSA in 1995, and has helped lead APAMSA’s Advisory Board ever since. He is a board member of the National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians (NCAPIP). He is president of the Orange County chapter of OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates.

Dalia Baadarani, is a Clinical Director with the Intercultural Psychiatric Program at OHSU. She is a mental health professional with 10 years of experience in private practice and community service specializing in providing comprehensive care to the refugee and immigrant communities. Her research interests include ways to promote emotional health by using alternative approaches to trauma recovery and the intersection of religion and cultural identity conflict.

Don S. Dizon is a Professor of Medicine and Professor of Surgery at Brown University. He is a medical oncologist specializing in pelvic malignancies, survivorship particularly as it pertains to sexual health for men and women with cancer, and social media. He grew up on the Pacific Island of Guam, and completed undergraduate and medical school at the University of Rochester in New York. He trained in Internal Medicine at Yale New-Haven Hospital and completed a fellowship in Medical Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in NYC. Dr. Dizon is a founding member of the Collaboration for Outcomes Using Social Media in Oncology and is active on many platforms, including Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. Follow him @drdonsdizon.

Robert Hsu, MD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at University of Southern California. He received his MD at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA and did Internal Medicine residency at University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital followed by Hematology/Oncology fellowship at the University of Southern California. He served on APAMSA’s National Board for 4 years from 2012-2016 including serving as National Vice President and served as the local chapter president at Tulane. Currently at USC, Dr. Hsu’s focus is on lung and head and neck cancer with an interest in cancer disparities across all solid tumor types with a special interest in APIA cancer disparities.

Dr Ruey Hu is a cardiovascular outcomes researcher and fellow in cardiovascular medicine at Yale School of Medicine. 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. His teaching materials, available at www.rueyhu.com/MedEd, attract clinicians and students internationally. He is an active peer reviewer for cardiology and nephrology journals and serves on the Chinese American Medical Society’s program committee, APAMSA’s alumni advisory board, and Yale’s IM residency intern selection committee.

Dr. Enjae Jung is a vascular surgeon and associate professor of surgery in the Division of Vascular Surgery in the OHSU School of Medicine. She sees patients at the Portland VA Medical Center, where she is a staff surgeon. Dr. Jung focuses on a range of vascular surgical problems. She earned her medical degree at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She completed her residency in general surgery and a fellowship in vascular surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.

Hong Lee, PhD HEC-C is the Medical Ethicist at Salem Health. He grew up in San Francisco and discovered his passion for ethics while completing his BA in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Hong then went on to complete his PhD in Philosophy at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and a fellowship in Clinical and Organizational Ethics at the University of Toronto’s Joint Centre for Bioethics. He has been providing clinical ethics services to Salem Health since 2013. His current research interests include decisional capacity, medical futility, moral distress, and surrogate decision making.

Dr. Qian Liya Leng (she/her) is currently a health services research fellow at the Portland VA. She researches ways to improve how health care is provided to patients as well as boosting the emotional wellbeing of providers. Her areas of interest include health disparities, inclusion, substance use disorders, and mindfulness. She is a certified yoga and meditation teacher. Qian completed a combined MD/MPH degree at Harvard University and internal medicine residency at Oregon Health & Science University. Her clinical work lies in hospital medicine at the VA and Legacy Health.

Dr. Nakae is the Senior Associate Dean for Equity, Inclusion, Diversity, and Partnership, and Associate Professor of Medical Education at the California University of Science and Medicine. Dr. Nakae completed a BS and MSW at the University of Utah, and a PhD in Higher Education at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Nakae works with national organizations to increase access and equity in higher education for undocumented, underrepresented, minoritized, and marginalized students, trainees, and practitioners. Dr. Nakae is dedicated to improving inclusive institutional excellence through co-liberatory equity practice.

Eriko Onishi, MD, MCR graduated from Tsukuba School of Medicine in Japan and came to the US for Family Medicine residency training in Terre Haute, Indiana. She practiced Family Medicine in the Indiana community setting until she joined OHSU FM department in October of 2011. Dr. Onishi is interested in research in the areas of Advance Care planning, communication skills with seriously ill, and pain and opioids. She is working to incorporate her clinical experience into her research, aimed at improving the health care system to provide better care.

Dr. Rhusheet Patel joined the Division of Vascular Surgery at OHSU in 2022. He was previously at UT Southwestern Medical Center where he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery. He treats the full spectrum of vascular disease, including carotid stenosis, aortic aneurysmal and occlusive disease, and venous insufficiency. He specializes in limb salvage in patients with peripheral arterial disease, using both minimally invasive and open surgical techniques. Dr. Patel earned his medical degree at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine and completed an integrated residency in vascular surgery at the University of California Los Angeles Medical Center.

Hieu Pham (he/him), MD, MSPH, AAHIVS, currently works at International Community Health Services (ICHS) in Seattle WA. He provides full spectrum primary care to all patients as a family physician and serves as the in-house HIV specialist and gender affirming care subject expert. As an immigrant, queer physician of color, Dr. Pham is particularly interested in immigrant and refugee health, care for the LGBTQIA+ population, and mentoring the next generation of physicians of color. Dr. Pham was born in Saigon, Vietnam and was raised in Queens, New York. He did his undergrad studies in New York, graduate studies in Baltimore, and medical school in Chicago where he was involved with APAMSA national board. He completed his residency in Family Medicine at Swedish Cherry Hill Family Medicine Residency (Seattle).

Dr. Kalani Raphael is a Native Hawaiian, born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai’I, and an adult nephrologist and Professor of Medicine at University of Utah Health and VA Salt Lake City Health Care System. Dr. Raphael is the only Native Hawaiian nephrologist in academics and feels a strong responsibility to improve kidney health in the NHPI population. He is a community advocate more generally and is a clinical advisor to the Oregon Pacific Islander Coalition and the Utah Pacific Islander Health Coalition, particularly in areas of policy surrounding COVID-19. Dr. Raphael is known as an international expert in metabolic acidosis in CKD and has current research projects that are funded by NIH and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Born in South Korea and raised in the greater LA area, Kevin Riutzel is a family physician currently working in Los Angeles, CA. The clinic he works at is a federally-qualified health center in LA’s Koreatown primarily serving local AAPI communities, many of whom are the 1st generation in their families to immigrate to the U.S. He has served in several roles for APAMSA including National President for three terms as well as National Pre-med Director, Region XII Director, and local chapter president.  He finished his undergraduate studies at UC San Diego and graduate studies at Columbia University. After graduating from Touro University Nevada, he completed his training in family medicine at UC Irvine with a focus on integrative medicine. He served as one of the chief residents while at UC Irvine.

Yingfei Wu, MD, MPH graduated with a major in Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles, earned her MD from Medical College of Wisconsin and MPH in epidemiology and biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is currently completing her Internal Medicine residency at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She served on her local APAMSA chapter board at the Medical College of Wisconsin and on the National Board, including as National President from 2018-2021. Dr. Wu is passionate about primary care and clinical research in chronic diseases, especially for minority/underrepresented populations. She will be starting a clinical research fellowship in General Internal Medicine in 2023. 

Lindy Zhang, MD is Pediatric Hematology/Oncology clinical and research fellow at the combined Johns Hopkins Hospital/National Institutes of Health program and a Ph.D. candidate in the Cellular and Molecular Medicine program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She completed her Bachelor of Science in biochemistry at the University of Michigan and her medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is passionate about medical education and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is an active member of the APAMSA Alumni Advisory Board and is invested in mentorship, promoting scholarship among Asian American medical students, and increasing their diversity within academics.

Joyce Kim

National Conference Logistics Director
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Aliah Mehkri

National Conference Speaker Relations Director
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Hannah Moon

National Conference Finance Director
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Michelle Santo Domingo

National Conference Speaker Relations Director
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Ashley Tam

National Conference Communications Director
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Laureen Chan

External Affairs Vice President
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

Xiaoyu Cai

Fundraising & Events Director
University of Virginia School of Medicine

Andy Lai

Sponsorship Co-Director
Saint George’s University School of Medicine

Zhang Hong Tan

Sponsorship Co-Director
The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Fountane Chan

National Conference Committee Member
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Rachel David

National Conference Committee Member
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Lillian Huang

National Conference Committee Member
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Joyce Kim

National Conference Committee Member
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Lisa Kumasaka

National Conference Committee Member
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Chelsea Lin

National Conference Committee Member
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Marissa Mayeda

National Conference Committee Member
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Angie Nguyen

National Conference Committee Member
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Lori Sun

National Conference Committee Member
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Anushka Tiwari

National Conference Committee Member
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Naomi Tsai

National Conference Committee Member
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

Kristin Zebrowski

National Conference Committee Member
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine

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