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2013 AAPA Awards

By June 26, 2013Announcements

Here are the 2013 awardees:

Chun-Chung Choi – AAPA Early Career Award for Distinguished Contribution to Service 

Joyce P. Chu – AAPA Early Career Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research

E.J.R. David -AAPA Early Career Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research 

Pawanjit Kalra – AAPA Okura Community Leadership Award  

Karen L. Suyemoto – AAPA Distinguished Contributions Award 

Frederick T.L. Leong – AAPA Lifetime Achievement Award 

Gordon Nagayama Hall – AAPA Lifetime Achievement Award

 

The fellows committee has also voted to approve the following AAPA members as new Fellows of the association:

Phillip Akutsu

Michi Fu

Su Yeong Kim

 

The above awardees and new fellows as well as the 2012 Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Fellowship awardees (Cindy Liu & Huijin Li) will be honored at the AAPA banquet in Honolulu on July 30, 2013.

 

Many thanks to the following committee members for their work:

Ad-hoc committee for early career award for service: Michi Fu, Gisela Lin, & Paul Wang

Awards committee: Barry Chung, Christing Iijima-Hall, Yosh Kawahara, Jeff Mio, & Joel Wong

Fellows committee: Barry Chung, Christing Iijima-Hall, Yosh Kawahara, Jeff Mio

AAPA-APF Okura Foundation Fellowship committee: Christine Iijima-Hall, Gayle Iwamasa (chair), Debra Kawahara, Ann-Marie Yamada