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Stephen Chao, MD is a family physician at Legacy Community Health Services, a federally qualified health center in Houston, Texas. He is currently also a clinical assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and was previously on the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine as well. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, he attended Rice University, graduating with degrees in Biochemistry and Health Policy. He received his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, is a past president of the Chinese American Doctors Association of Houston, is the current vice-president of Health Care For All Texas, and also presently serves on the board of Physicians for a National Health Program.

Dr. Chao completed his family medicine residency training at UT Health San Antonio and is committed to caring for the underserved residents of Houston and Harris County. His interests include care for immigrant and refugee populations, community health, and public policy. He believes in providing health care for all.

He also serves or has served on the boards of Refugee Services of Texas-Houston, OCAGreater Houston, Light and Salt Association, Eastside Promotoras de la Buena Salud, and the San Antonio Healthcare-NOW Coalition.

Dr. Wu completed his undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering and biology at Stanford University and his MD and PhD degrees in the MSTP program at Duke University School of Medicine. After internal medicine residency at the Duke Hospital, he completed his training in general cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and a research fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital prior to becoming an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He move to Stanford University School of Medicine in 2012 where he is now the Endowed Faculty Scholar of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children, an Associate Professor of Medicine and, by courtesy, Pediatrics, and the Associate Director at the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute. He was previous the National President of APAMSA in 1995-1996.

Ruey Hu, MD, MPH, who hails from Toronto, Canada, served as national president of APAMSA from 2016 to 2018. He studied molecular biology at Princeton with certificates in computer science, neuroscience, and Chinese language and culture. He completed medical school and residency at Vanderbilt University, an MPH in epidemiology and biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins University, cardiology fellowship at Yale University, and interventional cardiology fellowship at Cedars-Sinai. He is now a structural interventional fellow (PGY-8) at Cedars-Sinai. 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 Yale emergency medicine residents as the 2023 Consultant of the Year, and voted by Cedars-Sinai fellows as 2025 Advanced Fellow Educator of the Year. Ruey finds joy in motivating others to do what they are passionate about. While on national board, Ruey’s favorite part of the job was getting to meet the spirited and hardworking members of APAMSA across our chapters. He enjoys continuing to advise medical students today.

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• YouTube @RueyHu
• Hu Said: Cardiology Board Review Series Podcast 

Nolan Kagetsu is faculty advisor for the APAMSA chapter at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Nolan studied chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After graduating from Albany Medical College, he completed a residency in diagnostic radiology at Mount Sinai West and a fellowship in Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology at NYU. He currently is a diagnostic neuroradiologist for the Mount Sinai Department of Radiology. He lives in Manhattan with his wife.

He was elected to serve on the College Steering Commitee of the American College of Radiology. He has written about unconscious bias, microaggression, and being an upstander. He is a Professor in the Department of Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology and Department of Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He was a diagnostic program director for 15 years and has spoken about interview preparation at National APAMSA meetings.

While Nolan was born in Canada, he self identifies as sansei, since his grandparents immigrated from Japan to Canada.

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• Instagram @NYCneurorad
• LinkedIn 

Dr. Lee is a private practice radiologist in Orange County, California, and Vice Chair, UCI Health – Los Alamitos, for the Department of Radiological Sciences at UC Irvine. He was one of the original student organizers that helped lead to the formation of APAMSA in 1995, and has served on APAMSA’s Advisory Board ever since. He is a board member of the National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians (NCAPIP), and is president of the Orange County chapter of OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates. He was involved with the National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP) for many years, serving in many roles including National President, President of its Chicago chapter, and co-chair of the 2008 National Convention.

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, where he was chief resident, and a fellowship in abdominal imaging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston.

On the side, Jhemon writes and performs sketch comedy with API comedy group “No MSG Added.” He and his wife, Misa performed improv comedy for years with groups such as Cold Tofu, Los Angeles’ longest running API improv troupe.