MyMy Buu is a 3rd year at Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.  She completed her B.S. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at UCLA in 2002. She was a co-APAMSA president for the year 2003-004.  She thinks that knowledge about the minority health concerns is the key to change and action to help over come health disparities.  She also is a food lover: loves to eat, watches Food Network, and tries to cook.

Vicky C. Chang is a 2nd year medical student at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She received her B.S. in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology from UCLA. As an undergrad, she was a member and director of the Asian Pacific Health Corp, which worked to improve health care screenings to underserved Asian communities. She is currently a member of UCLA APAMSA and is also the Western region director for National APAMSA. Her favorite things to do include traveling, drawing, and eating. Special talents include being able to hum to music she has never heard before.

Yvonne Chiu graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 2001 with a B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology, with an emphasis in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she is currently a 3rd year medical student at USC. Her favorite book is The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, which deals with cultural competency issues that attracted her to the field of medicine. In her spare time, she enjoys working with kids, reading romance novels, cooking, watching Law and Order, and playing Scrabble. She is interested in a career in pediatrics.

Brian Hurley is a 3rd year MD/MBA student at the Keck and Marshall Schools of USC.  He majored in Biochemistry and Neuroscience with a Political Science minor at UCLA before entering medial school.  Brian helps co-coordinate USC's Medical Gay and Lesbian Organization (MedGLO), and serves at the National Coordinator of the American Medical Student Association's LGBT People in Medicine.  Brian is excited to bring LGBT issues to the Minority Health Conference, and hopes that raising awareness about LGBT health care disparities will help improve the way we provide care for our LGBT patients.

Susan Imamura is a 2nd year medical student at the University of California at Los Angeles and serves as the Board of Speakers representative for the UCLA chapter of Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA). After graduating from Brown University, she worked at the National Institutes of Health as part of the NIH Academy, a program established to address the health disparities among different ethnic, socioeconomic and gender groups in the United States. Her work over the course of the year sowed Susan’s interest in advocating healthcare equality for minority groups. Having previously studied how the healthcare disparities gap could be addressed through research, she is now part of the effort by the USC-UCLA Minority Health Conference to address this gap in clinical practice.  In her procrastination time, Susan likes to indulge her creative side and dabbles in painting, photography, and writing. Her current project is making glittery soap that smells good.

Alicia Lwin is a graduate of Pomona College, where she received a B.A. in Economics and a minor in Chemistry.  She is currently in her 2nd year at the Keck School of Medicine at USC, and represents APAMSA in this year’s Minority Health Conference.  Helping organize the Minority Health Conference has been an incredible opportunity for her to expand her knowledge of health disparities while also spreading this knowledge and working with a great group of people.  When she’s not immersed in the world of being a med student she can be found singing along with the radio in her car while on the way to exploring new restaurants with her friends.

Rafael Lemus-Rangel is 2nd year medical student at ULCA who believes that physicians in training must be adequately prepared to tackle the challenges that lie ahead.  It is his goal to contribute towards this through the informative and comprehensive Minority Health Conference.  One of the many interesting facts about Rafael is that he enjoys gardening since he grew up in the Central Valley of California between Bakersfield and Fresno in a small town called Lindsay. 

Janiene Luke is a 2nd year student in the Drew University of Medicine and Science in conjunction with the David Geffen School of Medicine. She recently earned a Master’s degree in Nutrition from the California State University, Los Angeles where her studies focused on the traditional soul food diet, and its health implications for African Americans. She also received a BS from the University of California, Los Angeles in Physiological Science. She is currently the President of the Drew Class of 2007, and is very involved with the Student National Medical Association Drew/UCLA chapter. She believes strongly in the Drew mission of “serving the underserved,” and feels it is very important to become fully aware of the disparities that exist in order to become a leader and advocate for change in our current healthcare system. In her spare time, she enjoys singing, reading and spending time with her family.

Milin Ratanasen is a 2nd year medical student at UCLA. He graduated from UC Davis with a B.S. in Cell Biology where he volunteered at the Shifa Clinic, a student-run free clinic serving the uninsured Muslim population of Sacramento. Milin served as Clinic Manager in his senior year. He plans to have a career involved in serving the API community. In his free time, Milin is known as Mister Milin when he makes rap music with his crew Nostalgic Progression.

Osita Onugha is a 2nd year medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.  He graduated from UC Davis with a B.S. in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior.  As an undergraduate, he volunteered at Clinica Tepati, a student-run clinic that serves patients without health insurance.  In his senior year, he was the Clinic Manager.  He is currently co-President and the Regional Webmaster of the Student National Medical Association.  He is involved in the Minority Health Conference because he believes that acknowledging our differences and appreciating them is the first step towards equity in care.  Having an open dialogue about race is the only way we can enact change.  In his spare time, he enjoys going to the movies, relaxing with his fiancée, and working on computers. 

Maricela Rodriguez was born and raised in Hollywood. She comes from humble beginnings, her Mexican father never went to school and her Salavdoran mother has worked as a maid at The Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel for almost 30 years. Nevertheless, Mari was able to complete a bachelors and masters degree in Biomedical Engineering at USC. Her passion to help her community directly motivated her to pursue medicine. She is now a 2nd year at the David Geffen School of Medicine, fulfilling her greatest dream! "Si Se Puede!"

Rebecca Sadun is a 3rd year MD/PhD student at Keck-USC, where she is currently conducting research in the field of cancer immunotherapy.  As an undergraduate at Brown University, she studied molecular biology and political philosophy, and she is still intensely interested in the interface between medicine and human rights.  Rebecca does not identify with any particular U.S. minority population, but she feels strongly that any medical student who sacrifices a Saturday to attend this Minority Health Conference has his/her conviction in the right place. When not worrying about worldwide health, happiness, and peace, Rebecca is a bit of a goofball and can be found engaged in oddities like simultaneously listening to two different radio stations (try it…it’s fun!).