Volume 4, Issue 3, Total issues 14 Sep. 1, 1999
Executive Editor: Liqun Xu, MD81, University of Ottawa Heart
Institute, Ottawa, Canada, [email protected]
Editor in Chief: Huang, Xupei, PH77, Houston, [email protected]
Associate Editors: Chen, Bei, PH80, San Francisco, [email protected]
He, Zhigang, MD79, [email protected]
Liu, Youcheng, PH78, New Haven,
[email protected]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. [Brief News]
1) ONMUAA Webpage
2) The 2nd "JIANGSU ZI YOU" (Friends of Jiangsu) Annual
Convention for Overseas Organizations/Associations
3) Alumnus TONG Ying's Situation
2. [Alumni in Science]
1) Special Feature: Pei Liu
2) CHEN Jin, PH78, Joined FDA at Washington DC
3. [Information Exchange]
1) A letter from Tang Lijun (MD89) in Nanjing
2) Y2K Compliant
3) Earn Money While Surfing Internet
4. [Alumni on Move]
5. [Job Opportunity]
Health Data Analyst Position
6. [Humor and Jokes]
1) Rules of Romance
2) The Statue &;The Story
3) The Moral of Mankind
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1. [BRIEF NEWS]
1). ONMUAA Webpage
According to Fuhu Wang who has successfully managed our webpage, the
current primary carrier(Danis) is no longer
supported any more. That means if our webpage breaks down, it will not be
brought up. This is an urgent problem.
Fuhu has moved all the stuff to a new site (personal location again), and
suggested to solve this problem asap through
a focused discussion by our alumni. Now the question is, Can we find some
place that is willing to, or is able to, keep
our homepage??? Please participate in the discussion, and send your ideas
or suggestions by email to
[email protected].
2). A Reminder: The 2nd "JIANGSU ZI YOU"(Friends of Jiangsu) Annual
Convention for Overseas
Organizations/Associations
We published the following news in last issue of the Newsletter. Here
we'd like to remind of the schedules to those
who are interested in attending the Convention.
ONMUAA has received an invitation from the government of Jiangsu
province for this meeting. Last year, our alumni
Wei Qingyi and Yang Wei attended the great 1st Convention in Nanjing. This
year's schedule is as follows:
Oct. 1, 1999------- Registration, in Nanjing.
Oct. 2-3, 1999----- Visit activities in Nanjing.
Oct. 3, 1999------- Leave Nanjing to visit other 10 cities for 5
days.
The government will be responsible for all expenses in visiting activities
during the meeting(not for air ticket). Any
ONMUAA alumni who would like to attend this meeting are welcome and
encouraged. Please contact YANG Wei for
details if you are interested.
3). Alumnus TONG Ying's situation
A couple months ago ONMUAA called our alumni to support Mr. Tong and his
family. His health condition doesn't have
significant improvement recently, according to Xupei Huang. Mr. Tong is
still in the nursing home and his family is
still struggling to support him. During last few months, ONMUAA received
donations of less than $300 from a few of
our alumni. We will give them to Mr. Tong's family later. However, we hope
more alumni come out to support so that
we can have more for his family. ONMUAA now calls again to our alumni,
and encourages your support, either
spiritually or financially, to Mr. Tong. If you can donate some money,
please send a check addressed to ONMUAA and
marked with "For Tong Ying" to ONMUAA special fund account:
Bei Chen
1 DNA way
MS, 19
South SF, CA 94080
Your concerns and generous donations will be great appreciated. We will
summarize all alumni's support in next issue
of the Newsletter.
2. [ALUMNI IN SCIENCE]
1) Special Feature: Pei Liu (By LIU Youcheng and CHEN Jin, PH78)
Do you remember one of our movie stars in China, Xinyi Liu? If so, do you
know he is an NMU alumnus? "Are you
kidding?" Of course, he is not. But here is our star, the rising science star,
Pei Liu, PH78, who did graduate from NMU
and who does resemble Xinyi Liu.
Most of you may not know Pei's name, but when you meet him, you will
find he is very familiar to you. In fact, Pei was
a very popular figure in public health (PH) classes. He was one of the class
monitors. He was always enthusiastic,curious and conscientious about
learning new knowledge. He was among the few top ones in academic
performance in
Class 78. After graduation in 1983, Pei was selected to work in Xuzhou
Medical College (XMC). After working for 3
years there, Pei was admitted to China Medical University at Shengyang
for graduate study in Biostatistics. He
obtained his Master of Science degree in 1989. Pei then went back to work
in XMC where he distinguished himself
professionally and made prominent achievements in sciences, particularly
in Biostatistics and Epidemiology.
Pei's research focuses on the application of statistical methods to
medical and public health researches, particularly
to the study design, data analysis and interpreting statistical results. The
application of a right statistical method to
the study design is a critical and essential step that will allow a
scientific approach to any animal, clinical or field
studies. Similarly the application of right statistical methods to data
analysis and interpretation will make the
reported results valid and conclusions drawn correct. Here is an example
of Pei's significant contributions to public
health sciences in general and biostatistics in particular. Starting from
1993, he has invented statistical methods and
developed theoretical basis for studies to screen the serum for antibodies
to hepatitis C virus (HCV). Traditionally
each serum specimen has to be tested individually for positive antibodies.
Pei devised a new screening strategy in
which several samples are pooled and tested collectively. When sero
prevalence of HCV antibodies is very low, this
method will reduce the screening cost remarkably. He used the orthogonal
design for the experiment to evaluate
different experiment conditions and cost reduced. He invented a
statistical chart for analyzing the cost-benefit
quantitatively. This provided convenience and saved time and money for
serum analysis without sacrificing the
accuracy of screening testing. Since 1993, he has evaluated various EIA
tool kits for their efficiencies in screening
antibodies to HCV in pooled serum. For the past 16 years, Pei has made
extensive achievements in other areas of
public health sciences as well. Using various statistical approaches, Pei
has identified health effects of workers
exposed to chromic dust and co-effects of smoking and coal dust exposure
on pulmonary function of coal workers. He
has successfully applied regression diagnostic tools to the analysis of
various medical multivariate data. He
developed an early-stage diagnostic index for chromic fluorosisÖÖjust to
name a few here.
Over the years, Pei was awarded more than 3 research grants from China
where he served as a principle investigator
besides various projects where he served as a co-investigator. He
published more than 12 papers in national and
international peer-reviewed journals where he was the first author. This
gained him quite a few prizes in Outstanding
Science and Technology Advances from local and provincial governments.
Recently, he was also awarded the National
Medical Circles Outstanding Figures Prize from China National Medical
Circles in Beijing and won a scholarship from
Jiangsu Provincial Educational Commission. In addition, Pei has been
playing a vital role in teaching and research
administration in XMC. He has been the Vice-Chair and Chair for the
Department of Public Health in XMC since 1994 and
the Director of Study Design and Data Analysis Center in XMC since 1998.
This past February, Pei was invited by the University Vice-President to
work at Department of Biostatistics and
Epidemiology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada as a Visiting
Professor. He is working on the statistic
issues related to various research projects such as Medical Diagnostic
Imaging and the Canadian Health and Aging
Study where risk factors for dementia is being sought. We are very
confident that with his dedication and rich
experiences, Pei will continue to distinguish himself here outside China
as he did inside China and make further
contributions to our understanding of human disease etiologies and
preventive measures.
Editors' Comments: As we stated in previous issues, over the years our
alumni either back to China or overseas have
made various significant contributions to the furthering of science and
technology in general and medicine and public
health in particular. We introduced Yongjian Liu (MD78) and Qingyi Wei
(PH78) earlier who achieved excellence in
laboratory-based researches here in the States. This time, we introduced
Pei Liu (PH78) for his achievements in China
with focus on public health research. We also welcome more features on
our alumni in other areas of research in
future issues.
2). CHEN Jin, PH78, Joined FDA at Washington DC
Jin Chen, PhD, PH78, recently joined U.S. FDA at Washington DC as a
Pharmacologist/Toxicologist in medical imaging
Jin got his PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology from University of
California at Davis in 1995. He then moved to
3. [INFORMATION EXCHANGE]
1) A letter from Tang Lijun (MD89) in Nanjing
Hi, everyone,
Click on "START".
"Click on the "Date" tab at the top of the page. (last tab on the top right)
Where it says, "Short Date Sample", look and
That's because Microsoft made the 2 digits setting the default setting for
Windows 95, Windows 98 and NT.
This date format selected is the date that Windows feeds *ALL*
application software and will not rollover into the
Then click on "Apply".
4. [ALUMNI ON MOVE]
1). XU Liqun (MD 81)
2). CHEN Jin (PH 78)
3). LIU Pei (PH 78)
4). WANG Fuhu (MD 79)
5). HUANG Hui (MD 81)
6). QIAN Yanning ( MD 78 )
8) YAN Chongchao (PH80)
5. [JOB OPPORTUNITY]
Health Data Analyst Position (Submitted by YANG Wei, PH79)
Current opening for a six month temporary Health Data Analyst position to
work on a variety of assignments, including
6. [HUMOR and JOKES]
1) Coupling Equations and Rules (Recommended by LI Donglin, PH81, and
LIU Youcheng, PH78)
Equations:
Rules
2). The Statue &;The Story (Submitted by XU Liqun, MD 81)
A man was looking around a small gift shop when he came across an
amazingly ugly statue of a rat. As he was staring
The man turned back around and looked in shock. "Let me get this straight.
If I buy the statue and the story behind it,
A few moments later, he noticed that a lone rat was following him. He
shrugged, and ignored the rodent, hoping it
The man then rushed back to the shop, elated, panicked, and still in shock.
When he burst through the door, the
The customer looked confused for a second, then realized. "Hell no! I wanna
know if you've got a statue of a lawyer or
God created the mule, and told him, "You will be mule, working constantly
from dusk to dawn, carrying heavy loads on
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and radio-pharmaceuticals. His main responsibilities are review and
evaluation of new drug applications submited to
FDA for approval. He can be reached by (301) 816-4368 or
Stanford University for postdoctoral training in Clinical and Molecular
Pharmacology. We congratulate him warmly on
this exciting start in his career and wish him great success at FDA!
My name is Tang Lijun. I graduated from Nanjing Medical University in
1994. I am a radiologist in the First Affiliated
Hospital of Nanjing Medical University from then on. And now I am
pursuing Master Degree in Nanyi. My majority is
Cardiac MRI research. I just want to contact with our Nanyi people
overseas to see if I can cooperate with them in my
research areas. If someone is interested please write to me. E-mail:
[email protected]
2) Y2K Compliant (Submitted by YANG Wei, PH 79)
You may think your PC is "Y2K" compliant, and some little tests may have
actually affirmed that your hardware is
compliant, and you may even have a little company sticker affixed to your
system saying "Y2K Compliant".but you'll be
surprised that Windows may still crash unless you do this simple exercise
below. Easy fix but something Microsoft
seems to have missed in certifying their software as Y2K compliant.
Click on "SETTINGS".
Double click on "Control Panel".
Double click on "Regional settings" icon (look for the little world globe),
not the date and time icon.
see if it shows a "two digit" year format ("YY"). Unless you've previously
changed it -- it will be set incorrectly with
just the two Y's. It needs to be four!
year 2000. It will roll over to the year 00. (*) Click on the button across
from "Short Date Style" and select the
option that shows, "mm/dd/yyyy" or "m/d/yyyy". (Be sure your
selection has four y's showing, not just "mm/dd/yy).
Then click on "OK" at the botton.
Easy enough to fix. However, every "as distributed" installation of
Windows worldwide is defaulted to fail Y2K
rollover... Pass this along to your PC buddies... this might be a welcome bit
of information!
3) Earn Money While Surfing Internet (Submitted by CHEN Bei, PH 80)
Here is how it works:
You sign up with the company and agree to allow it to run a small banner
ad on your screen every time you log on to the
Internet. AllAdvantage refreshes the banner, which they call a "viewbar,"
every few minutes via your online
connection. The company can tell how long you are logged on with the
viewbar active on your screen. You get 50 cents
for each hour the viewbar is up. At present, with just a few advertisers
signed up, the limit is $20 a month.
If you want you can view the article at:
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/beat/
AllAdvantage's web site is:
http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=CEV228
has new home/phone/email address:
411-2385 Carling Ave.
Ottawa ON
Canada K2B 7G9
Phone: 613-726-3834
Email: [email protected]
New Email address:
[email protected]
Move to Canada
Email: [email protected]
New email address: [email protected]
New email address: [email protected]
Back to China.
New email: [email protected]
7) GU Rende (MD, 77)
has new home/phone/email address:
3716, NE 75th St., #110
Seattle, WA 98115
206 985 8818 (H)
206 634 2559 (W)
[email protected]
New address:
5 Sunnyside Ave
Danbury, CT 06811
(203)778-2170(H)
(203)798-428(())
[email protected]
data analyzing and reports writing for the databases of
communicable/chronic diseases and injuries. It could lead to a
full time permanent position. Position requires at least a masterÇs
degree, with analytical and research experience
and ability to write for publications. This contract position pays at the
rate of $20 per hour and will work at Carson
City, Nevada office. Please contact Dr. Wei Yang at (775) 684-4182 or Fax
(775) 684-4156
Nevada State Health Division, Bureau of Health Planning and Statistics,
Carson City, Nevada 89701
Smart man + Smart woman = Romance Smart man + Dumb woman =
Pregnancy
Dumb man + Smart woman = Affair
Dumb man + Dumb woman = Marriage
Smart boss + Smart Employee = Profit
Smart boss + Dumb Employee = Production
Dumb boss + Smart Employee = Promotion
Dumb boss + Dumb Employee = Overtime
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need.
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a
little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to
understand her at all.
Married men live longer than single men, but married men are a lot more
willing to die.
Any married man should forget his mistakes, there's no use in two people
remembering the same thing.
Men wake up as good looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
There are 3 times when a man doesn't understand a woman--- before
marriage and after marriage and every other day
of the week.
at this statue, the shopkeeper came up to him and began to speak. "Sir, I
couldn't help but notice your interest in the
statue. It's only five dollars, sir, but the story behind it will cost you
fifty."
I'll be paying fifty-five dollars. But if I can bear to live without the story,
I'll only pay five? Sold!" He paid the
merchant and walked out of the store.
would leave. When he looked back again, some five minutes later, he saw
that the number of rodents had grown to
maybe fifty rats. A little nervous, he turned back to his path and continued
walking. When he looked around the third
time, he saw thousands of rats following him. Horribly frightened, the man
rushed to a dock overlooking the ocean and
threw the statue as far out to sea as he possibly could. The rats followed
the statue, sinking into the waves like
stones.
shopkeeper gave a little chuckle. He had a smug grin on his face as he said,
"I expect you've come back to buy the
story." The merchant held out his hand for the fifty dollars.
Millionaire here!"
3). The Moral of Mankind (Submitted by SHI Jingda, PH 79)
you back. You will eat grass and lack intelligence. You will live for 50
years live for 50 years." The mule answered,
"To live like this for 50 years is too much. Please give me no more than
20." And it was so. Then God created the dog,
and told him, "You will hold vigilance over the dwellings of Man, to whom
you will be his greatest companion. You will
eat his table scraps and live for 25 years." The dog responded, "Lord, to
live 25 years as a dog like that is too much.
Please, no more than 10 years." And it was so. God then created the
monkey, and told him, "You are monkey. You shall
swing from tree to tree, acting like an idiot. You will be funny and you
shall live for 20 years." And the monkey
responded, "Lord, to live 20 years as the clown of the world is too much.
Please, Lord, give me no more than 10 years."
And it was so. Finally, God created Man and told him, "You are Man, the only
rational being that walks the earth. You
will use your intelligence to have mastery over the creatures of the world.
You will dominate the earth and live for
20 years." And the man responded, "Lord, to be Man for only 20 years is too
little. Please, Lord, give me the 20 years
the mule refused, the 15 years the dog refused, and the 10 years the
monkey rejected." And it was so. And so God made
Man to live 20 years as a man, then marry and live 20 years like a mule
working and carrying heavy loads on his back.
Then, he is to have children and live 15 years as a dog, guarding his house
and eating the leftovers after they empty
the pantry; then, in his old age, to live 10 years as a monkey, acting like
an idiot to amuse his grandchildren. And it is
so.
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ONMUAA newsletter is a quarterly publication of overseas Nanjing Medical
University Alumni Association (ONMUAA), a
free service provided by a group of volunteers. Its contents are solely the
responsibility of the authors and do not
necessarily represent the official views of ONMUAA. The Editorial Board
welcomes and appreciates contributions
from alumni, and encourages volunteers to join the Board or serve as one
issue editor. To publish an article or join,
please contact any of the editorial board members (see the end for more
information).
Overseas Nanjing Medical University Alumni Association (ONMUAA)
Executive Committee:
Liangfeng Tao(PH79), President
Wei Yang (PH79), President-Past
Fuhu Wang (MD79), President-Elected
Ning Jin (NS84), E-mail Center Coordinator
Fuhu Wang (MD79), Homepage Coordinator
Bei Chen (PH80), Treasury and Fundraising Coordinator
Yongjian Liu (MD78), Chair of 97-99 Governing Board
Bao, Gang, MD78, Louisville, [email protected]
Chen, Bei, PH80, San Francisco, [email protected]
Chen, Jin, PH78, Palo Alto, [email protected]
He, Zhigang, MD79, San Francisco, [email protected]
Huang, Xupei, PH77, Houston, [email protected]
Jin, Ning, NS84, Ann Arbor, [email protected]
Liu, Guoqin, GS82, [email protected]
Liu, Qianjin, MD78, St. Louis, [email protected]
Liu, Yongjian, MD78, [email protected]
Liu, Youcheng, PH78, New Haven, [email protected]
Lu, Li, MD77, Baltimore,
[email protected]
Lu, Shan, MD77, Northboro, [email protected]
Shen, Benquan, PH78, San Francisco, [email protected]
Tao, Liangfeng, PH79, Chemsford, [email protected]
Wang, Fuhu, PH79, Ottawa, [email protected]
Wei, Qingyi, PH78, Houston, [email protected]
Yang, Qinghua, San Diego, [email protected]
Yang, Wei, PH79, Carson City, [email protected]
Yu, Yongjia, PH77, Galveston, [email protected]
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