Retreat

Agenda

7.30am – 8.00am	Registration and Breakfast
8.00am – 8.30am	Welcome and Opening Remarks -      Brian L. Strom MD MPH, Chancellor, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Rutgers University -      XinQi Dong MD MPH, Director, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University
8.30am – 9.30am	Keynote – Data Disaggregation and Foundation-Based Research Tina Kauh PhD MS, Senior Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
9.30am – 10.15am	Panel Discussion – Mentorship and Career Development Introducer: David Krol MD MPH, Medical Director, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health and New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative Discussant: Michael Palis, PhD, Provost, Rutgers University – Camden Panelists: -      Eliza Ng MD MPH, Chief Medical Officer of Population Health, RWJ Barnabas -      Melissa Simon MD MPH, Vice Chair and Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University -      Antoinette Stroup PhD MS, Resident Member, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey -      Chau Trinh-Shevrin DrPH, Associate Professor, NYU
10.15am – 10.30am	Break
10.30am – 11.45am	RCMAR Scientists Presentation – Session 1 Introducer: Esther Wong MA, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Chinese American Service League Discussant: Albert Siu MD, Professor and Chair Emeritus, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Mount Sinai Presenting RCMAR Scientists: -      Exploring the associations between risk and protective factors and the health of older sexual and gender minority Asian Americans Jason Flatt PhD MPH, Assistant Professor, USCF -      Association Between Different Forms of Elder Mistreatment and Cognitive Change, Mengting Li PhD, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University -      Mental Health Outcomes among Older LGBT and Non-LGBT Asian Americans: The Influence of Minority Stress, Chien-Ching Li PhD MPH, Associate Professor, Rush University -      Stress Coping Process among Homebound Chinese and Korean American Older Adults: How do Internet Use and Acculturation Matter? Jinyu Liu PhD MSW MA, Assistant Professor, Columbia University -      Resilience in the Face of Adversity: The Case of Chinese Older Immigrants in the United States, May Guo PhD MS, Associate Professor, University of Iowa
11.45am – 12.30pm	Panel Discussion – The Road to Becoming an Independent Investigator Introducer: Jennifer Tsui PhD MPH, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University Discussant: XinQi Dong MD MPH, Director, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University  Panelists: -      Raymond Yung MB ChB, Director, Geriatrics Center and Institute of Gerontology, University of Michigan -      Bei Wu PhD MS, Dean's Professor in Global Health, NYU -      Jay Magaziner PhD MSHyg, Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland -      Nadia Islam PhD, Associate Professor, NYU
12.30pm – 1.15pm	Lunch and Plenary Session – Translational Research: The New Jersey Alliance For Clinical and Translational Science Rey Panettieri MD, Vice Chancellor for Translational Medicine and Science, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Rutgers University
1.15pm – 1.30pm	Break
1.30pm – 2.45pm	RCMAR Scientists Presentation – Session 2 Introducer: Su Wang MD MPH, Medical Director, Center for Asian Health, RWJ Barnabas Discussant: Scarlett Gomez PhD MPH, Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF Presenting RCMAR Scientists: -      Implementation of a Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool in Primary Care Settings among Diverse Patients, Jennifer Tsui PhD MPH, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University -      Health Outcomes in Asian Older Adults under Extreme Heat and Medication Use, Soko Setoguchi DrPH MD, Associate Professor, Rutgers University -      Neighborhood Walkability, Active Travel, and Health in Asian Americans: Does English Proficiency Matter? Hyunwoo Yoon PhD MSW/MPH, Assistant Professor, Texas State University -      Resilience, Gut Microbiota, Inflammation and Symptoms in Asian Older Adults with Stroke, Eeeseung Byun PhD RN, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
2.45pm – 4.00pm	Panel Discussion – Building Sustainable Research Partnerships Between Institutions and Communities Introducer: Jessica Israel MD, Corporate Chair of Geriatrics, RWJ Barnabas Discussant: Diane Hill PhD, Assistant Chancellor, University-Community Partnerships, Rutgers University – Newark -      Sunanda Gaur MD, Director South Asian Total Health Initiative, RWJ Barnabas -      Thomas Yu MA, Co-Executive Director, Asian Americans for Equality -      Esther Wong MA, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Chinese American Service League (TBC) -      Mariam Merced MA, Director, Community Health Promotion Program, RWJBarnabas -      Camilla Comer-Carruthers MPH, Manager, Community Education, RWJBarnabas
4.00pm – 4.30pm	Closing Remarks XinQi Dong MD MPH, Director, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University

 

 

Introduction and Welcome

Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research

Established in 1985 by David Mechanic, the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research (IFH) facilitates collaboration among the social and behavioral sciences, clinical disciplines, basic sciences and related fields to promote research on critical population health issues. Currently, Dr. XinQi Dong serves as the director of IFH and brings together scholars across and beyond Rutgers into a vibrant interdisciplinary network that advances high quality research in core areas: Behavioral Health; Health Economics; Social and Cultural Determinants of Health; Pharmacoepidemiology; Violence Prevention; Health Disparities; Aging Research; State Health Policy and Health Services Research.

IFH’s members have generated award-winning scholarship. A total of six current and former faculty have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine (IOM)) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Mission

The principal mission of the Institute for Health is health, health care, and policy research. The faculty is actively involved in developing future scholars through education and training programs and mentoring graduate and undergraduate students. IFH faculty led an NIMH-funded postdoctoral training program in mental health services research for 35 years that concluded in 2015. The Institute draws on its rich faculty resources in the social and behavioral sciences, public policy, health services research, public health, nursing, social work, medicine, law, business, and pharmacy. The faculty teaches department-based courses in health including a Health and Society program in the Sociology Department that is available as a minor to undergraduates.

The research focuses on important and persistent health care issues that are informed by sophisticated theory and methods. A strong academic foundation is combined with applied policy analyses. The Institute disseminates relevant research information to policymakers, community partners, advocates and consumers and involves these groups in ongoing research. The Institute performs convening functions by bringing together state policymakers and administrators and representatives of the private and nonprofit sectors to discuss shared policy concerns. Together these strategies build a more integrated and effective health research and policy community.

Rutgers Asian RCMAR

This NIH-funded P30 RCMAR has been established to advance careers of investigators from underrepresented populations through translational trauma and resilience research amongst one of the most understudied, yet fastest growing populations in the U.S.: Asian American older adults. Such an important focus in research, population and investigators informs both practice and policy at community, regional and national levels. Asians are the fastest growing yet most understudied US minority group at 21 million people and growing 56% from 2000-2013. Yet, < 1% of NIH research funding in the last 10 years were focused on US Asian populations, with only 3-5 total funded NIH grants/year that focus on US Asian older adults.

Moreover, this population experiences the “Asian Paradox”: while on average, US Asians, are the highest-income earners and the most highly-educated, more Asians, especially older adults, live below the poverty line, are less likely to participate in biomedical research, and suffer disproportional health disparities compared to white Americans. These health inequities are further complicated by the heterogeneity of these immigrant populations, especially with respect to culture, religion, language, sexual identity, and trauma exposure, many of which challenge our assumptions about the “model minority” stereotype. Such exposures and heterogeneities lead to isolation and further removal from opportunities to participate in research, thus restricting benefits conferred from population level research. However, despite this diversity, there are unifying themes across Asian cultures with regard to shared experiences of immigration, trauma, strong family bonds, cultural values and expectations, and the intergenerational nature of the aging process.

Building on two decades of rigorous aging research in minority populations and track records of successful academic achievements, we have leveraged strong existing transdisciplinary partnerships across multiple academic and community institutions to build a center designed to foster the next generation of diverse researchers in a nurturing environment that is conducive to success and promotes highly relevant and rigorous trauma, resilience and health outcomes research among Asian American older adults.

The Rutgers Asian RCMAR has the following scientific lines of inquiry:

1) Understand the cross-ethnic variations in the social, cultural, and behavioral mechanisms of trauma and stress across Asian populations;

2) Explore the potential differential health outcomes associated with trauma, immigration, and mechanisms of resilience in ameliorating adverse consequences among Asian populations; and

3) Build institutional and community capacity that tests and adapts and implements evidence based behavioral change strategies to prevent and treat trauma, promote resilience, and mitigate the effect of stressful events in Asian aging populations. The overall aims of the application reflect the synergistic work of Administrative (AC), Research Education (REC), Measurement and Analysis (AnC) and Community Liaison and Recruitment (CLRC) Cores.

 

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Brian L. Strom MD MPH
Chancellor, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, Rutgers University

Brian L. Strom MD MPH is the Inaugural Chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) and the Executive Vice President for Health Affairs at Rutgers University. Dr. Strom was formerly the Executive Vice Dean of Institutional Affairs, Founding Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Founding Director of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Founding Director of the Graduate Program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, all at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn).

Dr. Strom earned a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1971, and then an M.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1975. From 1975–1978 he was an intern and resident in Internal Medicine and from 1978–1980 he was an NIH fellow in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco. He simultaneously earned an M.P.H. Degree in Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Although Dr. Strom's interests span many areas of clinical epidemiology, his major research interest is in the field of pharmacoepidemiology, i.e., the application of epidemiologic methods to the study of drug use and effects. He is recognized as a founder of this field and for his pioneer work in using large automated databases for research. He is editor of the field's major text (now in its fifth edition) and Editor-in-Chief for Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, the official journal of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology.

Dr. Strom is also a nationally recognized leader in clinical research training. Dr. Strom was a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians, the Board of Directors of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and the Board of Directors for the American College of Epidemiology, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the Association for Patient-Oriented Research. Dr. Strom is a member of the American Epidemiology Society, and is one of a handful of clinical epidemiologists ever elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation and American Association of Physicians. He has also been an elected member of the IOM of the National Academy of Sciences since 2001.

Dr. Strom received the 2003 Rawls-Palmer Progress in Medicine Award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, the Naomi M. Kanof Clinical Investigator Award of the Society for Investigative Dermatology, the George S. Pepper Professorship of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and in 2006 he received the Sustained Scientific Excellence Award from the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology. In addition, Dr. Strom was named the 2008 recipient of the John Phillips Memorial Award for Outstanding Work in Clinical Medicine. This award is from the American College of Physicians (ACP) and is considered to be one of the highest awards in Internal Medicine.

Dr. Strom also received the 2013 Association for Clinical and Translational Science/American Federation for Medical Research National Award for Career Achievement and Contribution to Clinical and Translational Science for translation from clinical use into public benefit and policy. Penn awards that Dr. Strom received include the Class of 1992 Class Teaching Award and the Samuel Martin Health Evaluation Sciences Research Award. Dr. Strom received the 2004 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award, the University’s most prestigious teaching award, in recognition of the contribution he has made in his career to clinical research teaching. In 2019, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Clinical Research Forum.

 

XinQi Dong MD MPH
Director, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University
Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of Population Health Science

Dr. XinQi Dong is the Director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research (IFH) at Rutgers University as well as the inaugural Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sciences. Dr. Dong has published extensively on the topics of violence prevention with more than 220 peer-reviewed publications and is leading a longitudinal epidemiological study (The PINE Study) of 3,300 Chinese older adults to quantify relationships among culture, violence and health outcomes. Dr. Dong is the principle investigator of eight federally-funded grants and also has mentored many trainees and faculties to success. He is the PI of the NIA funded P30 Center RCMAR. Dr. Dong serves on many editorial boards, was guest editor-in-chief for Journal of Aging Health and Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences and edited the key textbook on elder abuse – the field’s largest collection of research, practice, and policy.

Dr. Dong was the recipient of the Paul Beeson Award by National Institute on Aging, the National Physician Advocacy Merit Award by the Institute for Medicine as a Profession, the Nobuo Maeda International Aging and Public Health Research Award by the APHA, National Award for Excellence by APHA, the Maxwell Pollack Award in Productive Aging, the Joseph Freeman Award and the Powell Lawton Award by the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). He was also awarded the Rosalie Wolf Award by the National Committee on the Prevention of Elder Abuse and the Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award by the American Geriatric Society. Dr. Dong was elected to be a Commissioner for the Commission on Law and Aging of the American Bar Association (ABA). In 2017, Dr. Dong received the Eward Busse Award by the International Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics. In 2018, he was awarded the RWJ Foundation Health Equity Award.

Dr. Dong has been a strong advocate for advancing population health issues in under-represented communities across the local, national and international level. Internationally, Dr. Dong has worked with multiple institutions in China as well as Chinese National Committee on Aging to further dialogue between the US China collaborative on elder justice and mental health. He was the first geriatrician to receive the National Physician Advocacy Merit Award by the Institute on Medicine. Dr. Dong served as a Senior Advisor for DHHS under Obama administration. His policy and advocacy work with the Department of Justice and Center for Disease Control and Prevention have also shaped the national agenda on the surveillance and preventive strategies combating the issues of violence prevention. In 2011, Dr. Dong was appointed as a member of the Institute of Medicine: Global Violence Prevention Forum. Subsequently, he chaired the workshop on elder abuse prevention. In 2017, Dr. Dong was invited to be the planning committee member for Board on Global Health to chart the future of violence prevention effort at the NAM. In 2018, Dr. Dong became a member of the NAM Consensus study: Care Intervention of Individuals with Dementia. In 2018, Dr. Dong was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation.

An immigrant to the United States, Dr. Dong grew up in a rural village near Nanjing, China. He received his BA in biology and economics from the University of Chicago, his MD at Rush University College of Medicine, and his MPH in epidemiology at University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed his internal medicine residency and geriatric fellowship at Yale University Medical Center.

 

 

Attendees

Albert Siu, MD	Professor and Chair Emeritus Director, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine	Mount Sinai
Bei Wu, PhD	Dean's Professor in Global Health	NYU
Bei Wang, MPH	Research Assistant, Co-President of China Public Health Student Organization	Rutgers University
Camilla Comer-Carruthers, MPH	Manager, Community Education	RWJ Barnabas
Charles Chear, MSW	Assistant Director of Student Affairs MSW Newark Campus Coordinator	Rutgers University
Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH	Associate Professor	NYU
Chenjuan Ma, PhD MSN	Health Services Researcher	NYU
Chien-Ching Li, PhD MPH	Associate Professor	Rush University
David Krol, MD MPH	Medical Director, New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutritiona and New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative	Rutgers University
Diane Hill, PhD	Assistant Chancellor, University-Community Partnerships	Rutgers University
Dinesh Mendhe, MS	Programmer Analyst II, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research	Rutgers University
Donald Hoover, PhD MPH	Professor of Statistics	Rutgers University
Eeeseung Byun, PhD RN	Assistant Professor	University of Washington
Elissa Kozlov, PhD	Clinical Psycologist, Instructor in the School of Public Health	Rutgers University
Eliza Ng, MD MPH	Chief Medical Officer of Population Health	RWJ Barnabas
Emily Stirzaker	Research Project Coordinator, Senior Economist	Rutgers University
Esther Wong, MA	Executive Director and Co-Founder	Chinese American Service League
Hanzhang Xu, PhD, RN	Medical Instructor, Researcher	Duke University
Hyunwoo Yoon, PhD MSW/MPH	Assistant Professor	Texas State University
Jason Flatt, PhD MPH	Assistant Professor	University of California San Francisco
Jay Magaziner, PhD	Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health	University of Maryland
Jeanne Ferrante, MD MPH	Physician, Health Services Researcher	Rutgers University
Jennifer Rojas	Project Research Assistant	Rutgers University
Jennifer Tsui, PhD MPH	Assistant Professor	Rutgers University
Jessica Israel, MD	Corporate Chair of Geriatrics	RWJ Barnabas
Jinyu Liu, MA MSW PhD	Assistant Professor	Colombia University
Joel Cantor, ScD	Professor, Director of Center for State Health Policy	Rutgers University
Joshua Miller, PhD	Professor, Department Chair	Rutgers University
Marie Dessanti, MPH CPH	Research Project Coordinator	Rutgers University
May Guo, PhD MS	Associate Professor	University of Iowa
Melissa Simon, MD	Vice Chair and Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology	Northwestern University
Mengting Li, PhD	Assitant Professor	Rutgers University
Michael Palis, PhD	Provost	Rutgers University
Nadia Islam, PhD	Associate Professor	NYU
Nan Stroup, PhD	Director, New Jersey State Cancer Registery	Rutgers University
Natalie Tuseth,	Administrative Coordinator	Rutgers University
Olga Jarrin Montaner, PhD RN	Assistant Professor	Rutgers University
Peter Guarnaccia, PhD	Professor	Rutgers University
Raymond Yung, MD	Director, Geriatrics Center and Institute of Gerontology	University of Michigan
Reynold Panettieri, MD	Professor, Director, Vice Chancellor for Translational Medicine and Science Director	Rutgers University
Scarlett Gomez, PhD MPH	Professor	University of California San Francisco
Shailja Mathur, MS RDN MEd	Family & Community Health Sciences Senior Program Coordinator	Rutgers University
Shou-En Lu, PhD	Associate Professor	Rutgers University
Soko Setoguchi, MD DrPH	Associate Professor	Rutgers University
Stephanie Bergren	Research Project Manager	Rutgers University
Su Wang, MD MPH	Medical Director, Center for Asian Health	RWJ Barnabas
Sunanda Guar, MD	Director South Asian Total Health Initiative	RWJ Barnabas
Thomas Yu, MA	Co-Executive Director, Asian Americans for Equality	Asian Americans for Equality
Tina Dharamdasani, MS	Research Study Coordinator	Rutgers University
Tina Kauh, PhD MS	Senior Program Officer	Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Uma Swaminathan	President	Association of Indians in America, NJ Chapter
Weiyu Mao, PhD MSW	Assistant Professor	University of Nevada
XinQi Dong, MD MPH	Director IFH, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences	Rutgers University
Ying-yu Chao, PhD RN	Clinical Assistant Professor	Rutgers University

 

 

Agenda

9.30 am – 10.00 am	Zoom Meeting Opens and Participant Arrivals
10:00 am – 10.15 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks -      XinQi Dong MD MPH, Director, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University
10.15 am – 11.00 am	Panel Discussion: COVID-19 - The Impact of Racism on Health Outcomes -        Introducer: XinQi Dong, MD, MPH -        Panelists: Gilbert Gee PhD, Latha Palaniappan MD, MS, Thomas Yu MA, Marguerite Ro DrPH -        Moderator: Chau Trinh-Shevrin DrPH
11.00 am – 11.45 am	Storytelling in Research and Documentary Filmmaking: A conversation with S. Leo Chiang -        Introducer: Chau Trinh-Shevrin DrPH -        Facilitator: Stephanie Bergren BA -        Speaker: S. Leo Chiang MFA
11.45 am – 12.00 pm	Break
12.00 pm – 1.00 pm	Keynote - Asian Americans and Racism in the context of COVID-19  -      Introducer: XinQi Dong MD, MPH -      Speaker: Renee Tajima-Pena, BA, Professor of Asian American Studies and Director of the Center for EthnoCommunications, UCLA
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm	Year 2 RCMAR Scientist Presentations – Breakout Sessions All participants will be assigned to one of three concurrent breakout sessions. Session 1: - Presenters: Sam Li PhD, Hannah Nguyen PhD MSW, JiWon Choi PhD RN - Moderator: Jay Magaziner PhD Session 2: - Presenters: Tali Elfassy PhD MSPH, Arnab Mukherjea DrPH MPH, Jisook Ko PhD RN - Moderator: Eugene Yang MD Session 3: - Presenters: Ling Xu PhD MSW MA, Ying-Yu Chao PhD RN, Olga Jarrín Montaner PhD RN - Moderator: Fenyang Tang PhD
2.00 pm – 2.45 pm	Lunch – Optional Networking Breakout Rooms
2.30 pm – 3.00 pm	Year 1 Scientist Presentations - Plenary -      Introducer: Winston Tseng, PhD -      Speaker 1: Jason Flatt PhD -      Speaker 2: Jennifer Tsui PhD, MPH
3.00 pm – 4.00 pm	Consultancy – Breakout Sessions All participants will be assigned to one of four concurrent breakout sessions. Session 1: - Scientists: Mengting Li PhD, Ying-Yu Chao PhD RN GNP-BC, Olga Jarrín Montaner PhD RN, Sam Li PhD - Moderator: Francisco Sy, MD, DrPH Session 2: - Scientists: Arnab Mukherjea DrPH MPH, JiWon Choi PhD RN, Eeeseung Byun PhD, RN - Moderator: Scarlett Lin Gomez, PhD Session 3: - Scientists: Tali Elfassy PhD MSPH, Ling Xu PhD MSW MA, Jisook Ko PhD RN - Moderator: Nicolas Musi, MD Session 4: - Scientists: Hannah Nguyen PhD MSW, Jennifer Tsui PhD MPH, Jason Flatt PhD - Moderator: Raymond Yung, MB, ChB
4.00pm – 4.30pm	Closing Remarks -        - XinQi Dong MD MPH, Director, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks

XinQi Dong MD MPH
Director, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University
Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of Population Health Science

Dr. XinQi Dong, MD, MPH, is director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and the inaugural Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sciences. Dr. Dong is a population health epidemiologist and geriatrician and has published extensively on violence prevention, elder justice, and healthy aging, with more than 220 peer-reviewed publications.  

Dr. Dong has led multiple longitudinal epidemiological studies, including the New Jersey Population Health Cohort Study, currently in the design phase, and The PINE Study of 3,300 Chinese older adults to quantify relationships among culture, violence, and health outcomes. Dr. Dong is the principal investigator of numerous federally-funded grants and has mentored many trainees and faculty researchers to succeed. He leads the National Institute on Aging-funded P30 Asian Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR). 

Dr. Dong serves on many editorial boards, was guest editor-in-chief for the Journal of Aging and Health and the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, and edited the key textbook on elder abuse – the field’s largest collection of research, practice, and policy. Dr. Dong was elected to be a Commissioner for the Commission on Law and Aging of the American Bar Association. 

Dr. Dong was the recipient of the Paul Beeson Award by the National Institute on Aging; the first geriatrician to receive the National Physician Advocacy Merit Award by the Institute for Medicine as a Profession; the Nobuo Maeda International Aging and Public Health Research Award and the National Award for Excellence by the American Public Health Association; the Maxwell Pollack Award in Productive Aging, the Joseph Freeman Award, and the Powell Lawton Award by the Gerontological Society of America; the Rosalie Wolf Award by the National Committee on the Prevention of Elder Abuse; and the Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award by the American Geriatric Society. In 2017, Dr. Dong was awarded the Ewald Busse Award by the International Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics. In 2018, he received the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Equity Award. 

A strong advocate for advancing population health issues in under-represented communities at the local and national levels and around the world, Dr. Dong has worked with multiple institutions in China as well as the Chinese National Committee on Aging to further dialogue between the US and China on elder justice and mental health. 

Dr. Dong served as a senior advisor for the Department of Health and Human Services under the Obama administration. His policy and advocacy work with the Department of Justice and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have also shaped the national agenda on the surveillance and preventive strategies combating issues of violence. 

In 2011, Dr. Dong was appointed as a member of the Institute of Medicine: Global Violence Prevention Forum. Subsequently, he chaired the institute’s workshop on elder abuse prevention. In 2017, Dr. Dong was invited to be the planning committee member for the Board on Global Health to chart the future of violence prevention efforts at the National Academy of Medicine. In 2018, Dr. Dong became a member of the academy’s consensus study: Care Interventions for Individuals with Dementia and their Caregivers. In 2018, Dr. Dong was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation. 

An immigrant to the United States, Dr. Dong grew up in a rural village near Nanjing, China. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology and economics from the University of Chicago, his medical degree at Rush University College of Medicine, and a masters in public health in epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed his internal medicine residency and geriatric fellowship at Yale University Medical Center. 

 

Panel Discussion:

COVID-19 - The Impact of Racism on Health Outcomes

Introducer: XinQi Dong, MD, MPH

Moderator: Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH

Panel Members:

• Marguerite Ro, DrPH, Director of the Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention (CDIP), Seattle & King County 
• Thomas Yu, MA, Co-Executive Director, Asian Americans for Equality 
• Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS, Internist and Clinical Researcher, Stanford University 
• Gilbert Gee, PhD, Professor, UCLA Department of Community Health Sciences  

Objective: To discuss health outcomes in the context of a global pandemic and its influence on various ethnic groups; to initiate dialogue on the indirect repercussions of COVID-19 and the long-term effects of racism and systemic inequality on health 

 

Storytelling in Research and Documentary Filmmaking: A conversation with S. Leo Chiang

Introducer: Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH

Facilitator: Stephanie Bergren, BA

Speaker: S. Leo Chiang, MFA

 

Keynote – Asian Americans and Racism in the Context of COVID-19

Introducer: XinQi Dong MD, MPH
Speaker: Renee Tajima-Pena, BA, Professor of Asian American Studies and Director of the Center for EthnoCommunications, UCLA

 

Year 2 RCMAR Scientist Presentations – Breakout Sessions

Session 1:

Presenters: Sam Li PhD, Hannah Nguyen PhD MSW, JiWon Choi PhD RN
Moderator: Jay Magaziner, PhD

 

Session 2:

Presenters: Tali Elfassy PhD MSPH, Arnab Mukherjea DrPH MPH, Jisook Ko PhD RN
Moderator: Eugene Yang, MD

 

Session 3:

Presenters: Ling Xu PhD MSW MA, Ying-Yu Chao PhD RN, Olga Jarrín Montaner PhD RN
Moderator: Fenyang Tang, PhD

 

 

Attendees

Angela Sy, DrPH	Associate Member, Population Sciences in the Pacific Program	University of Hawaii
Arnab Mukherjea, DrPH, MPH	Associate Professor	California State University
Bei Wu, PhD	Deans Professor in Global Health	New York University
Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH	Associate Professor	New York University
Chien-Ching Li, PhD MPH	Associate Professor	Rush University
Dara Sorkin, PhD	Associate Professor, School of Medicine	University of California, Irvine
Dinesh Mendhe, MS	Programmer Analyst II, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research	Rutgers University
Donald Hoover, PhD MPH	Professor of Statistics	Rutgers University
Eeeseung Byun, PhD RN	Assistant Professor	University of Washington
Emily Stirzaker	Research Project Coordinator, Senior Economist	Rutgers University
Esther Wong, MA	Executive Director and Co-Founder	Chinese American Service League
Eugene Yang, MD	Medical Director of UW Medicine Eastside Specialty Center Professor of Medicine	University of Washington
Fatima Abdi, MPH	Research Assistant	Rutgers University
Fengyang Tan,	Chief Medical Officer of Population Health	RWJ Barnabas
Francine Conway, PhD	Professor, Clinical Psychologist	Rutgers University
Francisco Sy, MD, DrPH	Professor	University of Nevada
Gilbert Gee, PhD	Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences	University of California Los Angeles
Hannah Nguyen, PhD, MSW	Assistant Professor	California State University – Dominguez Hills
Hyunwoo Yoon, PhD MSW/MPH	Assistant Professor	Texas State University
Iris Chi, DSW	Chinese-American Golden Age Association/Dr. Frances Wu Chair for Chinese Elderly Professor of Social Work	University of Southern California
Janice Tsoh, PhD	Professor, Psychiatry Weill Institute for Neurosciences	University of California, San Francisco
Jason Flatt, PhD, MPH	Assistant Professor	University of California San Francisco
Jay Magaziner, PhD	Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health	University of Maryland
Jennie Chin Hansen, PhD	Chair Of The Board Of Directors	The SCAN Foundation
Jennifer Rojas, AS	Project Research Assistant	Rutgers University
Jennifer Tsui, PhD MPH	Assistant Professor	Rutgers University
Jessica Israel, MD	Corporate Chair of Geriatrics	RWJ Barnabas
Jing Wang, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN	Vice Dean for Research and Professor	University of Texas, San Antonio
Jinyu Liu, MA MSW PhD	Assistant Professor	Colombia University
Jisook Ko, PhD, RN	Assistant Professor	University of Texas, San Antonio
JiWon Choi, PhD, RN	Assistant Professor	University of California San Francisco
Keith Chan	Assistant Professor	State University of New York, Albany
Kevin Lu, PhD	Associate Professor	University of South Carolina
Kiang Liu, PhD	Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)	Northwestern University
Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS	Professor of Medicine	Stanford University
Leo S Chiang, MFA	Documentary Filmmaker	San Francisco
Ling Xu, PhD, MSW, MA	Associate Professor, Social Work	University of Texas, Arlington
Marguerite Ro, DrPH	Chief of the Assessment, Policy Development, and Evaluation (APDE) unit; Director of the Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention (CDIP)	Seattle, Washington
Marie Dessanti, MPH CPH	Research Project Coordinator	Rutgers University
Melissa Simon, MD	Vice Chair and Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology	Northwestern University
Mengting Li, PhD	Assistant Professor	Rutgers University
Natalie Tuseth,	Administrative Coordinator	Rutgers University
Nicholas Musi, MD	Director, San Antonio Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center and Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies	University of Texas, San Antonio
Olga Jarrin Montaner, PhD RN	Assistant Professor	Rutgers University
Peter Guarnaccia, PhD	Professor	Rutgers University
Ping Ma, PhD	Assistant Professor	Texas A&M University
Raymond Yung, MB, ChB	Director, Geriatrics Center and Institute of Gerontology	University of Michigan
Renee Tajima-Peña, BA	Professor of Asian American Studies, Director of the Center for EthnoCommunications	University of California, Los Angeles
Sam Li, PhD	Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy	University of Texas, San Antonio
Sanjay Asthana, MD	Chief of Division, Geriatrics and Gerontology	University of Wisconsin
Scarlett Linn Gomez, PhD MPH	Professor	University of California San Francisco
Shou-En Lu, PhD	Associate Professor	Rutgers University
Soko Setoguchi, MD DrPH	Associate Professor	Rutgers University
Stella Yi, PhD, MPH	Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health	New York University
Stephanie Bergren, BA	Senior Research Specialist	Rutgers University
Su Wang, MD MPH	Medical Director, Center for Asian Health	RWJ Barnabas
Sunanda Gaur, MD	Director South Asian Total Health Initiative	RWJ Barnabas
Tali Elfassy, PhD	Research Assistant Professor	University of Miami
Thomas Yu, MA	Co-Executive Director, Asian Americans for Equality	Asian Americans for Equality
Toshi Abe	President	Japanese Americans Citizens League - Philadelphia
Van Park, PhD, MPH	Associate Professor	University of California, San Francisco
Vasundhara Kalasapudi, MD	Executive Director	India Home, A Center for Senior Care
Winston Tseng, PhD	Research Sociologist; Assistant Adjunct Professor; Lecturer of Community Health	University of California, Berkeley
XinQi Dong, MD MPH	Director IFH, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences	Rutgers University
Ying-yu Chao, PhD RN	Clinical Assistant Professor	Rutgers University
Yura Lee, PhD	Assistant Professor, Social Work	University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee