Strategy

Leena Yin served as Advocacy Vice President from 2020-2022, overseeing APAMSA’s response to the start of the COVID pandemic, the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes, and the resurgence of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. She completed undergrad at Stanford and medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, and will next be moving to work with AANHPI communities in Seattle as a Family Medicine resident of Swedish Cherry Hill. Leena is passionate about political organizing, her cats, and boba.

Tej Ganti, MD is a Maryland native who completed an undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University and medical school at Tufts University School of Medicine. As a medical student, Tej served on the national board and national executive board of APAMSA. Now an ob/gyn resident at Tower Health Reading Hospital, Tej continues to enjoy mentoring medical students and advocating for underrepresented communities.

Hillary Lin, MD is an internal medicine physician and entrepreneur. She served on the APAMSA National Board for several years acting as Hepatitis B Conference Director, Cancer Director, Alumni Director, and Strategy Director before joining the Alumni Advisory Board. Hillary attended Stanford for her B.S in Biology, M.D., and her internal medicine residency. She is currently Co-Founder and CEO of Curio, a mental health startup. She is passionate about human behavior and helping people improve their performance as well as their mental wellbeing by building emotional skills and strength.

Robert Hsu, MD is a hematology/oncology fellow 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. 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. During his time at Tulane with APAMSA, he helped with running Hepatitis B/C health fairs and education events at the West Bank working with the Vietnamese community and organizing Be the Match bone marrow drives along with bringing speakers to discuss APIA issues in New Orleans. Since his time at Tulane, he has continued to work with immigrant and APIA community through his experiences in residency, medical school, and AmeriCorps (which he did for two years after college) and is focused on bringing awareness to many of the socioeconomic barriers faced in these communities in the context of the physician-patient relationship. Robert’s interests also include oncology research focusing on global cancer databases, cancer disparities, and targeted therapies, in particular he hopes to do further research on cancer disparities within the APIA community. During his free time, Robert enjoys marathon running; he has run 20 full marathons and nearly 100 half marathons.

Kevin Hon is a current PGY-2 Emergency Medicine resident and New York-Presbyterian Queens. He hails from Southern California where he also completed his degree at Western University of Health Sciences COMP. He has been involved with APAMSA since his 3rd year of medical school where he served as both a Regional Director and as Pre-Medical Director. He concluded his medical student involvement as Membership Vice President up until his start of residency. Taking leadership and representation beyond APAMSA, he also serves on the SAEM membership and wellness committees. While EM is his passion, he takes pride in learning more about medical simulation, education, and mentoring. In his spare time, you can find him exploring New York City, training for or volunteering at races around NYC, or practicing his golf swing.