Dear alumni members: I am fowarding a summary of Dean Fan Mingwen's recent US visits to you. Also, in my last message, the list of council members was not complete (PAN Meihui was missing) and not in alphabetic order, sorry about the error and I have a correct version here. Council members (alphabetic order): CAO Tinhua (Tinghua_cao@hotmail.com), Detroit, Michigan CHEN Feng (fchen@thrombosis.hhscr.org), Ontario, Canada CHEN Xiangdong (xiangdong_chen@yahoo.com), Japan LIU Yanqun (gcslyq@sgh.com.sg), Singapore LU Deyin (deyinlu@yahoo.com), NM USA PAN Meihui (mp417@hotmail.com), New York, USA SONG ChangJie (changjie.song@student.unsw.edu.au), Australia XIAO Zuoliang (zl_xiao@hotmail.com), Rhode Island YIN Zhinan (zhinan.yin@yale.edu), New Heaven, US ZHANG Qing (eslqzhang@yahoo.com), Houston, Texas ZHANG Xiangming (xiang-ming.zhang@med.monash.edu.au), Australia ZHENG Fang (ffzheng@yahoo.com), Wuhan, China The Wuda Dental School have a new web site http://www.whuss.com/ and I have updated the link on our web site. Many of us are turning or already in their 40's. What's more important than a good health? Dr. Kang recommends a good article about health, which is posted in our Alumni Forum. There is also a link on the main page. Due to the size of the article (45K) I will not include it in this email, but it is really worth reading: http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/~cai/hbmu/ If you have anything to share with us, please post it directly to the Alumni Forum or email me. Best regards, Yidao Cai HBMUOAA cai@neurophys.wisc.edu http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/~cai/hbmu/ =============================================== >Subject: Dean Fan Mingwen visits U.S. >From: "Shen Zhong" >Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:40:52 -0500 Dr. Fan Mingwen, Chairman of School of Medicine, Wuhan University and Dr. Bian Zhuan, Dean of the Stomatological College & Hospital, Wuhan University, visited U.S. between March 6-15. Here is the outline of their U.S. trip. During March 6-11, Chairman Fan and Dean Bian attended the 80th IADR annual meeting in San Diego, one of the biggest events in international dentistry community. They also took advantage of meeting break, visited and met with director of International office of Kansas University, discussing issues regarding some new visiting scholar projects. They arrived in Washington DC area after the IADR meeting on March 12th, invited by HOPE project foundation. This foundation has a extremely strong interest in helping us - School of Medicine, Wuhan University, to launch a brand new high quality nurse school program without compensation. Some pre-settlement document will be on line soon. On March 13rd afternoon, accompanied with Dr. Zheng Zhiming, Chairman Fan and Dean Bian visited some genetic research labs in NIH. On March 14th, they visited Cancer Research Center hosted by Dr. Wang Yanlin; one of the Neuron Science labs, Medical Information Library and some other sites in Johns Hopkins major campus hosted by Dr. Tu Jiancheng. After the lunch break, they visited National Dentistry Museum, where is located in UMAB major campus. Before the alumni welcome dinner, they stopped by Dr. YE Shuiqing's lab at Asthma and Allergy Center, Bay View campus of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Ye introduced in details a pioneer bio- informatics tool (Micro Array analysis equipment) to Dean Fan and Bian, and expressed his personal interesting and willing to cooperate with our Wuda Medical School. Around 6.00pm, some of alumni members sat in a Chinese buffet restaurant and shared a pleasant monument with Dean Fan and Bian. During the dinner, Dean Fan encouraged all of alumni in the world to stop by our Wuda/HBMU to share your achievement, working experience and bring more cooperative projects, when you back hometown for vacation or visit your family member. In the future, our oversea alumni association will play more important role as a bridge between alumni and alma mater. Due to Dean Fan and Bian's tight schedule, and the gathering party schedule was not on weekend, just a part of our Baltimore area alumni attended that welcome gathering dinner. They are: Dr. Tu, Jiancheng Dr. Ye, Shuiqing Dr. Wang, Yanlin Dr. Liu, Jiaen Dr. Zhong,Shen On home school side, except Dean Fan Mingwen and Bian Zhuan, Professor Zhong Linsheng who is visiting his son in Maryland also joined our dinner.