ROOTS: Preserving Our History and Cultivating a Brighter Future.
DATE: January 7-9, 2021
LOCATION: In-person hosted by The Ohio State University (1739 N High St. Columbus, OH 43210)
CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://www.apamsa-nc2022.org/
REGISTER HERE
Recap
On behalf of National APAMSA and the OSU APAMSA chapter, thank you for attending the 28th Annual APAMSA National Conference. Thank you for your time, energy, and especially your understanding as we’ve navigated changes to the conference in the midst of the developing pandemic. We hope that this conference has allowed you to celebrate our heritage, learn innovative ways to engage with our community, and connect with our APAMSA family!
To recap our day together: On January 8th, we had our 2022 APAMSA National Conference at the Ohio State University. With over 300 registrants and 20 speakers/panelists, we’ve explored a whole host of topics, from tips for premed students to challenges we face as an AANHPI health professionals. Our theme this year, “Roots: Preserving Our History and Cultivating a Brighter Future”, highlights the turmoil we have faced throughout the challenging periods of a pandemic and reflects on the disproportionate impact that it has had on the AANHPI community, including targeted racism and assaults. However, we want to use this time to celebrate our heritage and use the lessons from our most difficult moments to move forward towards a brighter future.
Our first keynote address was given by Dr. Linton Yee, whose work as an Associate Dean for Admissions at the Duke University School of Medicine seeks to improve admissions strategies and ensure a fair, unbiased, and inclusive medical student admissions process. In his address, Dr. Yee highlighted the microaggressions and prejudice inflicted upon our AANHPI medical community and the importance of AANHPI representation in academic medicine. We continued our day with many wonderful speakers and panelists, including Dr. Gregory Lam & Dr. Anita Somani, who spoke about advocacy and getting involved with legislation as healthcare professionals, Dr. Andrew Keaster, who taught us to provide respectful values-based patient centered care for our transgender community, and Dr. Peter Lu, whose session on tips in finding and performing our research inspired us to identify our passion. Although this is a short, limited recap, we are incredibly grateful for all of our speakers and panelists who made the effort to impart their wisdom to our attendees.
Our research session had an unprecedented number of submissions and presentations, with more than fifty posters to learn from! Our APAMSA members are so accomplished, and will continue to be. You can read more about the abstracts at the poster session, and see who won research awards below!
The alumni and pre-medical programming served to connect our residents and physicians and future medical student colleagues. Our alumni were able to connect with each other in-person during our alumni mixer, while our pre-medical attendees were able to get tips on applying to medical school, practice mock-mini interviews, and ask questions to our medical student panel!
We also had our closing keynote speaker, Dr. O.N. Ray Bignall II, whose work as the Director of Kidney Health Advocacy addresses the social determinants of child health, kidney disease, and transplantation through community-based scholarship, engagement, and advocacy. As a 40 Under 40 Leader in Minority Health by the National Minority Quality Forum and the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust, Dr. Bignall spoke about five key points for survival as a minority in medicine and inspired us to continue building our culture and community of support throughout these challenging times.
Lastly, we ended the day with awards, raffles, and the results of our National Board elections. CONGRATULATIONS to all of the chapters and individuals who received an award for their passion and dedication to our AANHPI community. You can view Chapter and National Individual Awards (Youtube Link) recipients, the President’s Award for Distinguished Service (Youtube Link) recipients, raffle prize winners and the incoming 2022-2023 National Board below.
Thank you again to all of you, our attendees and our APAMSA National Conference Directors, 2021-2022 National Board, and OSU chapter. Although we miss the National Conference already, we are looking forward to the next time we will all meet again in 2023 and hopefully again, in-person. Till then, please stay safe, healthy, happy, and keep celebrating our ROOTS and our GROWTH.
Sincerely,
Your 2022 APAMSA National Conference Team
Conference Details
On behalf of the Ohio State University College of Medicine, we are excited to invite you to APAMSA’s 28th Annual National Conference on January 7th-9th, 2022 in Columbus, Ohio.
This year, the National Conference theme is “ROOTS: Preserving Our History and Cultivating a Brighter Future.” As we continue to navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic, we reflect on the disproportionate impact that it has had on the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Desi American (AANHPIDA) community, including targeted racism and assaults. The APAMSA National Conference this year will serve as an important opportunity to celebrate our heritage and use the lessons from our most difficult moments to move forward towards a brighter future.
We have invited an amazing group of speakers and panelists who strive to inspire a new generation of advocates for the AANHPIDA community and patients across the nation. It will be a unique opportunity to hear and learn from the experiences of these wonderful leaders who have a passion toward serving the AANHPIDA community.
We are excited for what is in store for this conference, and we encourage everyone to attend! Whether you are a pre-health student just beginning your journey, a health professional student pursuing your dream, or a community member that is passionate about learning more about the AANHPIDA community, please consider joining us for our conference! Looking forward to meeting you in January!
– 2022 APAMSA National Conference Directors
Keynote Speakers
Linton Yee, MD
As Associate Dean for Admissions, Dr. Yee provides administrative oversight for the medical student admissions process and works to develop new initiatives to improve admissions strategies and initiatives. He works closely with the Assistant Dean of Admissions and Admissions Committee members to ensure a fair, unbiased, and inclusive admissions process. Dr. Yee is responsible for assuring ongoing compliance with the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) standards and elements related to admissions as well as maintaining relationships with local, regional and national pre-med organizations, participating in student recruitment activities, and assisting with pipeline program development.
Dr. Yee is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine. He was the interim co-associate dean of admissions in 2017 and had been the vice chair and chair of the School of Medicine’s Admission Committee prior to that. In addition, he was the clinical course director for the Body and Disease class in the School of Medicine from 2009 to 2019. He is also the Asian Pacific American Student Association (APAMSA) faculty advisor and leader of the student faculty show band.
Dr. Yee graduated from the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine and did his residency in pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. Before joining Duke in 2007, he worked at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, and at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, California.
O. N. Ray Bignall II, MD, FAAP, FASN
O. N. Ray Bignall II, MD, FAAP, FASN is Director of Kidney Health Advocacy and Community Engagement in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. A graduate of Howard University and Meharry Medical College, Dr. Bignall completed his general pediatrics residency, clinical fellowship in nephrology, and NIH post-doctoral research fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
As a physician-advocate, Dr. Bignall’s work addresses the social determinants of child health, kidney disease, and transplantation through community-based scholarship, engagement, and advocacy. He is an appointed Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN); the Inaugural Chair of the ASN’s Health Care Justice Committee; and serves as a member of the Council on Medical Legislation for the National Medical Association. Dr. Bignall is a recipient of the American Academy of Pediatrics Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) Award; a John E Lewy Fund Advocacy Scholar of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology; and was named a 40 Under 40 Leader in Minority Health by
the National Minority Quality Forum and the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust.
Lisa Moscoso, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Student Affairs, WUStL
Opening
Jessica Guh, M.D.
Family Medicine Obstetrics, Seattle WA
Closing
Eriko Onishi, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, OHSU
Topic: Care and Cultural Diversity at the End of Life
Joe Pangelinan, PhD
Director of Cultural Awareness and Diversity in WUStL Department of Medicine
Topic: Academic careers in medicine, Under-Representation of APA/AAPI in upper management in medicine
Gordon Hall, PhD
Associate Director of Research in the Center on Diversity and Community & Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
Topic: APA/AAPI Mental Health
Mary Anne Jackson, M.D.
Dean, Professor – University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Medicine
Topic: Infectious Disease
Angela Zhang
Medical Student at the Warren Alpert Medical School
Topic: APAMSA Anti-Racism Workshop
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Contact Us
Questions? Email us at conference@apamsa.org.
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