The 18th Conference on Health Care of the Chinese in North America
“Health Care of the Chinese in the 21st Century”
| Conference Title: | Health Care of the Chinese in the 21st Century |
| Host: | Chinese Hospital |
| Date: | October 8 – 9, 2016 (Saturday/Sunday) |
| Location: | San Francisco, CA |
| Venue: | Holiday Inn – Golden Gateway, San Francisco, CA 1500 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94109 |
Conference Steering Committee
Gordon Fung, MD, Chairman
Edward Chan, MD
Kenneth Chan, MD
Mai-Sie Chan, MD
Edward Chow, MD
Randall Low, MD
Lawrence Ng, MD
Collin Quock, MD
Russell Woo, MD
Brenda Yee, RN, MSN
Jian Zhang, DNP
Kevin Cham
Patricia Chung, CPMSM, HACP
Faculty Presentations
October 8, 2016 (Saturday)
General Session
- The Health of Chinese Americans: 1970 to Today
Kathy Ko Chin
President and CEO, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum - Curing Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Ching-Hon Pui, MD
Chair Department of Oncology, Co-Leader Hematological Malignancies Program, Medical Director, China Program, International Outreach, Fahad Nassar Al-Rashid Chair of Leukeumia Research, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital - End of Life Care With Special Emphasis on Asian Pacific Islander Community
Catherine Eng, MD, FACP
Medical Director On Lok Senior Health Services, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics
Oncology Symposium
- Beyond Chemotherapy: New Treatments for Advanced Liver and Bile Duct Cancers
Katie Kelley, MD
Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) - Early Stage Lung Cancer: Recent advances from screening to treatment
Alexander Geng, MD
Medical Director, San Francisco CyberKnife Radiosurgery Center, St Francis Memorial Hospital - Advances in Treatment of Metastatic Brain and Spine Tumors
Lewis Z. Leng, MD
Neurosurgeon, Co-Director of Endoscopic Skull Base and Pituitary Surgery, California Pacific Medical Center
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth - Nasopharyngeal Cancer: Clinical and Research Update
Sue S. Yom, MD, PhD, MAS
Associate Professor, UCSF , Director of Head & Neck and Thoracic Radiation Oncology - Gastric Cancer: Exploring the differences between Asian and Western patients
Andrew H. Ko, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology - EGFR-Targeted Therapy for Lung Cancer
Osamu Tetsu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Ronald & Serene Low Memorial Pediatrics Symposium
- Social Determinants of Health
Bertram Lubin, MD
President and CEO, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital - Thalassemia in Clinical Practice
Ashutosh Lal, MD
Director Comprehensive Thalassemia Program, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Oakland - Preventing Early Childhood Cavities
Lyra W. Ng, MD, MPH
Cardiovascular Symposium
- Atrial Fibrillation and the Use of Oral Anticoagulants in Chinese Patients
Byron K. Lee, MD
Professor of Medicine, Samuel T. and Elizabeth Webb Reeves Endowed Chair in Arrhythmia Research, Director of the Electrophysiology Laboratories and Clinics, UCSF, Division of Cardiology - A Systematic Review of Technology-Based Interventions in Improving Hypertension Management in Racial Ethnic Minorities in the U.S.
Wen-Wen Li, RN, PhD - Sudden Cardiac Death in Asians: Insights from the San Francisco POST SCD Study
Zian H. Tseng, MD, MAS
Associate Professor of Medicine in Residence, Murray Davis Endowed Professor, Cardiac Electrophysiology Section, University of California, San Francisco
Surgery Symposium
- Thyroid Surgery
Quan-Yang Duh, Professor of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco - Minimally Invasive Head and Neck Surgery
Patrick Ha, MD FACS
Professor & Chief, Division of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, University of California San Francisco - Management of Rotator Cuff Pathology: The Art of Treating Asian-American Patients
Eddie Lo, MD
Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Cancer Prevention Symposium
- Colorectal Cancer Prevention Among Chinese Americans
Tung Nguyen, MD
Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Director, Asian American Research Center on Health - Mitigating Hepatitis B (HBV) Infections: Template for Eradicating the World’s Second Deadliest Cancer
Moon S. Chen, Jr., PhD, MPH
Professor, Division of Hematology and Oncology, UC Davis School of Medicine,
Associate Director, Cancer Control/Cancer Health Disparities, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA
Diabetes Panel
- Diabetes in Asian Americans: Screen at 23
Winston F. Wong, MD
National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians - Diabetes Coalition Updates, 2016
Edward A. Chow, MD
Co-Chair, AANHPI Diabetes Coalition
Smoking Cessation Panel
- Smoking Cessation and E-cigarettes
Elisa Tong, MD, MA
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis Medical Center - Healthy Family Project
Janice Y. Tsoh, PhD
UCSF School of Medicine, Psychiatry - Creating Smoke-free Living Project
Lei-Chun Fung, MPH, MSW, CHES
Health Education Manager
Chinatown Public Health Center, San Francisco Dept. of Public Health
October 9, 2016 (Sunday)
General Session
- Personalized / Precision Medicine in Oncology
John W. Park, MD
UCSF - The Importance of Educating Asian Patients About Their Clinical Lab Test Results
Alan H. Wu, PhD
Clinical Chemistry Lab Director, San Francisco General Hospital - SEPSIS – The Past, Present and Future
Fred Hom, MD
Pre-Diabetes Symposium
- Improving Diabetes Prevention and Management Outcomes Through A Patient-Centered Medical Community Model
Jian Zhang, DNP, MS, FNP-BC
Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF, School of Nursing
Chief Operating Officer, Chinese Hospital - CCHRC Diabetes Education Programs
Angela Sun, PhD, MPH
Executive Director, Chinese Community Health Resource Center - Screening at BMI 23 for Asian Americans: Impact on San Francisco Health Network
Ben Lui, MD, MPH
Medical Director/Center Director, Chinatown Public Health Center, San Francisco Department of Public Health
Mental Health Symposium
- Assessing Autism in Primary Care
Petra Steinbuchel, MD
Medical Director, Mental Health and Child Development, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Oakland - Clinical Depression
Kenneth Fung, MD, FRCPC, MSc
Associate Professor, Equity, Gender, and Populations, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Clinical Director, Asian Initiative in Mental Health, University Health Network