APA 2025 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Youth Suicide Prevention.
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AMSA 2022 Scholarly Concentration Tracks
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AMSA 2022 Single Medical Licensure Exam Series
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AMSA 2021 Resolution: National Mental Health Hotline
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Iowa 2020 Iowa Governor Proclamation: Clinical Suicide Prevention Day
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​AMA I-2019 External resolution: Advocate for two-interval grading system in non-clinical curriculum
AMA I-2019 External resolution: Oppose Mandatory DNA Collection of Immigrants
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AMA-MSS A-2019 GCAI: Report to study suicide and student wellness practices
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AMA-MSS A-2019 COLRP: Region bylaw comparison report
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Editorial Articles
April 2025 Psychiatric News
Dec 2023 Med Page Today KevinMD​
Aug 2022 AMSA National Blog
May 2021 Med Page Today KevinMD
Sept 2020 Iowa City Press-Citizen
Sept 2020 Ames Tribune
Aug 2020 IJMS
April 2020 Daily Iowan
Feb 2020 Daily Iowan
Jan/Feb 2020 The New Physician Magazine
Aug 2019 SPHR National Blog
July 2019 USA Today
AMA and AMSA Policy and Reports
- Robin Williams -
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world”
Advocacy
Trainee Well-Being
Trainee well-being is personal to me. I felt different as a minority who was poor enough to "qualify" for a Pell Grant at my University. And at Medical school, I struggled with mental health. I found out that I was not alone in my struggle with well-being.
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As Vice-President of Graduate and Professional Student Government at the University of Iowa - I helped start and serve on the wellness committee, increased the number of staffing for the counseling center, led the appreciation week for students, and advocate for student wellness in the five year strategic plan for the University of Iowa Health Care.
Through organized medicine - I wrote and passed AMA resolutions and reports regarding student wellness, I serve on the AMA-MSS committee on long range planning where we set up programming for preventing student burnout, and write student wellness reports on mental health days and wellness practice, I also chaired the AMSA wellness and student life action committee. We commemorated suicide prevention month and advocated for the Lorna Breen Bill, passed in 2022.
Cultural Mental Health Care
My parents came to the United States because it was the land of opportunity, a nation of immigrants. I saw firsthand how cultural identity shapes mental health, and the difficulties immigrants face.
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As a university student, I brought in multiple speakers to address immigrant rights. I coordinated a lecture by actress Diane Guerrero who starred in Orange is the New Black and DC's Doom Patrol. I also brought in Physician Advocates like UNRWA Akihiro Seita, Life Undocumented Mario Mendoza, and Project Lifeline Dona Kim Murphey​. As a medical student, I coordinated a petition for humane treatment of detained immigrants, and published our call to action in USA Today. I also served on the advocacy panel for the 2019 LMSA Midwest meeting.
My advocacy continued by publishing editorial and peer-reviewed pieces of important cultural considerations when treating mental health. In addition, I have helped advocate for Asian Youth Suicide Prevention through policy and educational initiatives. ​