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Projects: Visit APA Health CARE APA Health Fairs: APA Health CARE (Asian Pacific American Health Collaboration, Access, Resource, & Education) is a collaborative effort among UCLA undergraduate, public health, nursing, and medical students with physicians. We aim to improve the health status and well-being of underserved Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities. We are dedicated to enhancing health awareness and increasing access to health care services/resources by providing health screenings, education, and referral services to health care resources in the community. Medical students specifically provide screening services for hypertension, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia. In addition, APA Health C.A.R.E. enhances the educational experience for all students involved through practical learning opportunities under the mentorship of supervising physicians. We serve diverse communities across the Greater Los Angeles Area up to twice a month, and our sites include Van Nuys, Chinatown, Little Tokyo, and Alhambra/San Gabriel Valley, among others. Visit Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches (A3M) Bone Marrow Registration Drives: Every year, thousands of people of all ages are diagnosed with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases. Many of them will die unless they get a bone marrow or blood stem cell transplant from a matching donor. Most people do not have a donor in their family and depend on The National Marrow Donor Program's Be The Match Registry to find a match to save their life. Asian Americans are underrepresented in the registry and because people are more likely to find a compatible donor within their own race due to genetic similarity, it is more difficult for Asian Americans to find a match. APAMSA focuses on recruiting more minority donors and raising awareness in the community about both the need and ease of joining the national bone marrow registry. We hold 2 bone marrow drives a year (recruiting ~200 new registrants); and have provided lunch-time lectures to medical students, attended health fairs, and formed partnerships with Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches (A3M) and Asian American businesses such as Kogi BBQ and Nom Nom Truck toward our outreach and recruitment efforts. APAMSA LA/OC Hep B Resource Guide Hepatitis B Education, Screening, and Vaccination Effort: Hepatitis B is a silent killer, chronically infecting 250,000 people each year in the US alone, 50% of whom are Asian Pacific Islanders. One of UCLA APAMSA’s goals is to reduce the incidence of Hepatitis B in Asian Pacific Islander communities in LA County. We are currently working with the LA County Immunization Program and Hepatitis B Task Force in 3 main efforts: Hepatitis B education through the development and distribution of informational brochures and resource guides, community events, one-to-one education at health fairs, and sponsorship of research lectures at the medical school Hepatitis B screening at health fairs Educating those who test positive on the treatment they should be receiving and educating them to keep their families safe and prevent further transmission. Visit Minority Health Conference Minority Health Conference: The Minority Health Conference is a yearly collaboration between the UCLA, USC, and Charles Drew University medical school chapters of APAMSA, LMSA, MedGLO, SNMA, and now AMSA of USC, and represents a joint effort to present Asian American, Latino, LGBT, and African American health collectively as one voice. The unique motivation behind this collaboration is to synergize the work of all our organizations, which promote parallel causes for different minority groups. Goals of the conference include educating students and physicians on the critical issues behind minority health, and providing a forum to discuss the barriers facing physicians and patients in minority communities. View the Conference Summary National Conference 2009: UCLA APAMSA hosted the 16th annual APAMSA National Conference, "Transforming Medicine: A Challenge for Future Leaders" on the UCLA campus on October 9-11, 2009. The event was co-hosted by the APAMSA chapters at the USC Keck School of Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences, and the UC Irvine School of Medicine, as well as the Premedical APAMSA chapter at UCLA. Over 300 medical and premedical students from more than 50 schools across the country attended the conference, which featured a wide variety of lectures and workshops from distinguished scholars and leaders in medicine, politics, law, and public health. Visit Undergraduate APAMSA Undergraduate APAMSA: We are strongly involved in providing mentoring and pre-professional programming to UCLA undergraduates interested in medicine, and hold several events each year.
Last modified: January 19, 2010 Website feedback -> eliluong[at]ucla/edu

Projects:

APA Health Fairs:
APA Health CARE (Asian Pacific American Health Collaboration, Access, Resource, & Education) is a collaborative effort among UCLA undergraduate, public health, nursing, and medical students with physicians. We aim to improve the health status and well-being of underserved Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities. We are dedicated to enhancing health awareness and increasing access to health care services/resources by providing health screenings, education, and referral services to health care resources in the community. Medical students specifically provide screening services for hypertension, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia. In addition, APA Health C.A.R.E. enhances the educational experience for all students involved through practical learning opportunities under the mentorship of supervising physicians. We serve diverse communities across the Greater Los Angeles Area up to twice a month, and our sites include Van Nuys, Chinatown, Little Tokyo, and Alhambra/San Gabriel Valley, among others.

Visit Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches (A3M)

Bone Marrow Registration Drives:
Every year, thousands of people of all ages are diagnosed with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases. Many of them will die unless they get a bone marrow or blood stem cell transplant from a matching donor. Most people do not have a donor in their family and depend on The National Marrow Donor Program's Be The Match Registry to find a match to save their life. Asian Americans are underrepresented in the registry and because people are more likely to find a compatible donor within their own race due to genetic similarity, it is more difficult for Asian Americans to find a match. APAMSA focuses on recruiting more minority donors and raising awareness in the community about both the need and ease of joining the national bone marrow registry. We hold 2 bone marrow drives a year (recruiting ~200 new registrants); and have provided lunch-time lectures to medical students, attended health fairs, and formed partnerships with Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches (A3M) and Asian American businesses such as Kogi BBQ and Nom Nom Truck toward our outreach and recruitment efforts.

APAMSA LA/OC Hep B Resource Guide

Hepatitis B Education, Screening, and Vaccination Effort:
Hepatitis B is a silent killer, chronically infecting 250,000 people each year in the US alone, 50% of whom are Asian Pacific Islanders. One of UCLA APAMSA’s goals is to reduce the incidence of Hepatitis B in Asian Pacific Islander communities in LA County. We are currently working with the LA County Immunization Program and Hepatitis B Task Force in 3 main efforts:

Hepatitis B education through the development and distribution of informational brochures and resource guides, community events, one-to-one education at health fairs, and sponsorship of research lectures at the medical school
Hepatitis B screening at health fairs
Educating those who test positive on the treatment they should be receiving and educating them to keep their families safe and prevent further transmission.

Visit Minority Health Conference

Minority Health Conference:
The Minority Health Conference is a yearly collaboration between the UCLA, USC, and Charles Drew University medical school chapters of APAMSA, LMSA, MedGLO, SNMA, and now AMSA of USC, and represents a joint effort to present Asian American, Latino, LGBT, and African American health collectively as one voice. The unique motivation behind this collaboration is to synergize the work of all our organizations, which promote parallel causes for different minority groups. Goals of the conference include educating students and physicians on the critical issues behind minority health, and providing a forum to discuss the barriers facing physicians and patients in minority communities.

View the Conference Summary

National Conference 2009:
UCLA APAMSA hosted the 16th annual APAMSA National Conference, "Transforming Medicine: A Challenge for Future Leaders" on the UCLA campus on October 9-11, 2009. The event was co-hosted by the APAMSA chapters at the USC Keck School of Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences, and the UC Irvine School of Medicine, as well as the Premedical APAMSA chapter at UCLA. Over 300 medical and premedical students from more than 50 schools across the country attended the conference, which featured a wide variety of lectures and workshops from distinguished scholars and leaders in medicine, politics, law, and public health.

Visit Undergraduate APAMSA

Undergraduate APAMSA:
We are strongly involved in providing mentoring and pre-professional programming to UCLA undergraduates interested in medicine, and hold several events each year.

Last modified: January 19, 2010
Website feedback -> eliluong[at]ucla/edu