ONMUAA NEWSLETTER
---January, 2000 Volume 5, Issue 1, Total issues 15 Jan. 3, 2000

Executive Editor: Liang-feng Tao, PH 79, Boston, [email protected]
Editor in Chief: Huang, Xupei, PH77, Houston, [email protected]

Associate Editors: Chen, Bei, PH80, San Francisco, [email protected] He, Zhigang, MD79, San Francisco, [email protected] Liu, Youcheng, PH78, New Haven, [email protected]

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ONMUAA BOARD & EC WISH ALL NMU ALUMNI AND THEIR
FAMILY A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR 2000!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. [News] NMU Campus Celebrates 65th Anniversary NMU Happy New Year Letter to ONMUAA ONMUAA Supports Alumnus Tong Ying ONMUAA Headed by WANG Fuhu (MD79) for New Millennium

2. [An Open Note from New President WANG Fuhu]

3. [Alumni Activity]
a. Dr. WANG Cun-yu (DS 80)
b. Dr. WEI Qingyi (PH 78)

[Information Exchange]
a. Celebrating News Provided by NMU
b. ONMUAA E-address List Available on Request
c. Earn Money While Surfing Internet 5. [Alumni on Move]

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1. [BRIEF NEWS]
1). NMU Campus Celebrates 65th Anniversary During the last 2 weeks of September,1999, NMU celebrated the 65th anniversary. ONMUAA faxed a congratulation letter to the campus, and many alumni sent congratulations, by email or fax, to the university, or different schools, departments, groups, as well as faculty members.
    The whole university gathered and had big celebrating activities on 9/25/99. Some members of ONMUAA attended the celebrations. Director Li Zhuhua in Foreign Affairs Office, mailed related news (in Chinese) to ONMUAA. The news and some background info about NMU are partially cited in the section of Information Exchange for your reference (see below).

2). A Happy New Year Letter to ONMUAA from NMU NMU campus sent a happy new year letter and best wishes with a greeting card to ONMUAA.
    The original letter has been scanned and attached to this issue of the newsletter. Just click the icon and open it under graphic softwares.

3). ONMUAA Supports Alumnus Tong Ying Alumnus Tong Ying's accident/injury attracted alumni's attention. To support his fight for recovery and help his family to improve the situation, ONMUAA EC called for donations and spiritual support for Tong. Many alumni sent emails, cards/letters, or flowers to alumnus Tong or his family to express their concerns and encouragement.
    By December, ONMUAA has received donations of $270 from the following alumni(those who might send money or gifts directly to Tong's family not listed here): Huang, Xupei Jin, Nin Gu, Rende Deng, Mei Wang, Maomao Tao, Liang-feng
    The money together with an ONMUAA letter has been delivered to Tong's family before the Christmas. ONMUAA EC particularly thanks these alumni for their donations, and appreciates other alumni's support to Dr. Tong Ying.

4). EC Headed by WANG Fuhu (MD79) for New Millennium Alumnus WANG Fuhu (MD79) is now the new president of ONMUAA Executive Committee for the term of 2000. Congratulations, Fuhu! Wish you a very successful year leading ONMUAA to a new level in new millennium.
    The past president TAO Liangfeng would like to thank all EC/Board members, Newsletter editors and contributors, and all alumni for their support, understanding, encouragement, and participations. He also thanks NMU/Foreign Affairs Office for their support.
    During 1999, ONMUAA was involved in a lot of social activities, such as welcoming Premier Zhu's visit, celebrating HongKong's and Macau's return, supporting alumnus Tong Ying, and served for our alumni and family by publishing newsletters or providing other information through email.
    We believe the work will be greatly improved this year with Fuhu's leadership. If alumni have any new suggestions, please address to Dr. Fuhu Wang at [email protected]

2. [An Open Note from New President WANG Fuhu]

    Dear Alumni, Happy new year 2000! I am glad to take this opportunity to say that I am sincerely grateful to serve our alumni, even though one must be a little bit of a sucker to take a job like the president of ONMUAA.
    Still I am happy enough just to bear the title of the Y2K president, mindful that incidentally the title sounds a little bit like a bug.
    Over the years I have put forward some effort to serve our association in some small capacity and finding it immensely rewarding, even if only modestly successful. As I move into a slightly different position in our association, I hope to make some more concrete contribution, while keeping my old hocus-pocus -- the webpage -- going.
    As keepers of a reputable alumni association we have serious business at hand. But we should remind ourselves that it is supposed to be a fun, all-inclusive organization. If we burden such an organization with rigid bureaucracy and formality, we may risk suffocating it by loving and caring it too much. That, in my mind, is really worse than making a lot of faux pas and having some fun along the way.
    I really wish that I could make some grandiose promises and keep them. But even I fool myself, I cannot fool everybody else (The board is watching, remember?). Instead, I would say that I intend to do the following:
    One, make the pilgrimage to visit our Alma Mater as soon as feasible;
    Two, update the webpage more frequently;
    Three, refuse any resignation of any current Executive Committee officers;
    Four, to show that I mean serious business, I will shave my head and grow a mustache.

    Current webpage can be reached at:
    http://www.med.uottawa.ca/~wangf/Index.html
    http://www.uottawa.ca/~wangf/Index.html

    Cheers!

    Fuhu Wang (MD79)

3. [ALUMNI ACTIVITY]
1). Dr. WANG Cun-yu (DS 80) Alumnus WANG Cun-yu, DDS, PhD, was invited by former NMU President Dr. Zhang and Dean Dr. Yu of the School of Dentistry to attend the celebration of anniversary and the grand opening of the Dental Hospital in Nanjing Last September.

    Along with several professors from other institutions, he was honored a title of Guest Professor by Dr. Zhang and Dean Yu. During the visit, he was very impressed with the outstanding facility of the NMU Dental School and research quality under the leadership of Dr. Yu. Dr. Wang is currently an Associate Professor of Molecular Signaling and Apoptosis, in Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. He can be reached at [email protected].

2). Dr. WEI Qingyi (PH 78) On November 19-22, 1999, Alumnus WEI Qingyi, MD, PhD, visited NMU campus as a member of a delegation(nine professors) organized by Chinese Association for Professionals in Science and Technology and supported by the "Chunhui" Program of Chinese Education Ministry.
    The delegation visited both the Jiangsu First People's Hospital (NMU affiliated hospital) and NMU campus, where nine members of the delegation made presentations in the fields of cancer research, immunology, and neurology, exchanged information with their counterparts, and reached agreements for future collaborations.
    During the visit, Dr. Wei met with President Cheng Ronghua and Vice Presidents Wang Xingru, Xu Yaochu, and Zhang Qi. NMU awarded Dr. Wei an adjunct professorship and established a joint program to train professionals in needed area. As a part of this program, NMU sent a visiting scientist Dr. Shen Hong-Bin, Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, to study one year in the area of molecular epidemiology in Dr. Wei's laboratory at UT MDACC.
    During the two-week visit, the delegation also went to Shanghai (The Second Military Medical University and Shanghai Second Medical University) , Suzhou (Suchou Medical College), and Jiangyin (Huaxi Village) in addition to Nanjing.
    Dr. Wei is currently a faculty member of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (UTMDACC), and he can be reached at [email protected].

4. [INFORMATION EXCHANGE]

1) Celebrating News and Some NMU Data Provided by NMU NMU was founded in 1934, and every Sept.25 is her birthday.
    NMU now is a base of clinical pharmacology study run by MPH, and the location of Jiangsu Branch of Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. Today NMU has 7 schools, 3 depts, 13 additional special majors, 7 affiliated hospitals, 19 teaching hospitals, 8 research institutes, 12 research centers.
    Today NMU has 195 professors, 580 associate/assistant professors, with 27 PhD advisors and 143 master advisors. There are 7 PhD training labs, 37 master training labs and 1 postdoctoral station.
    During the past 65 years, 2000 graduates were awarded PhD or Master degree, and more than 20,000 medical students graduated from NMU. The library has more than 400,000 reference books, and near 10,000 different journals.
    Professors Ma Fenglou and Dai Hanmin in School of Public Health donated 100,000 RMB Yuan to the university before the 65th anniversary to set up a scholarship fund. NMU alumnus Vice Premier Li Lanqing visited the campus (date not provided).

    ONMUAA E-address List Available on Request Thanks to alumna JIN Ning, ONMUAA members' e-address list has been updated. Email to Ning at [email protected] or Wei at [email protected] if you want to update your own list.

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    You can sign up right now by clicking on : http://www.colorstamps.com. Have fun!

4. [ALUMNI ON MOVE] (Since Sept.1999)
1). JI Zhibin (DS 79) New Email address: [email protected] ).

(2) SUN Banghua (FC) New Email address: [email protected]

3). LI Weiqun (MD 78) New address: Stem Cell Research Lab. Lombardi Cancer Center, NRB, W309, 3970 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington DC Email: [email protected].

4). ZHONG Caiyun (GS 84) New contacting address at UC Davis: 530-750-3852(h) [email protected]

5). XIAO Liqun (MD 78) New email address: [email protected]

6). CAI Yi (MD 77) New email address: [email protected]

7). XING Lili (MD 78) New contacting address in Germany: [email protected]

8). REN Zhen (MD78) & LUO Ningling (MD78) New email address: [email protected] , or [email protected]

9). GAO Li (MD 85) New email address at Medical College of Wisconsin: [email protected]

10). ZHANG Ming (MD 79) New contacting address: (805)374-8712(H), (805)447-5249(O) [email protected]

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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