Here are the 2013 awardees:
Chun-Chung Choi – AAPA Early Career Award for Distinguished Contribution to Service
Joyce P. Chu – AAPA Early Career Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research
E.J.R. David -AAPA Early Career Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research
Pawanjit Kalra – AAPA Okura Community Leadership Award
Karen L. Suyemoto – AAPA Distinguished Contributions Award
Frederick T.L. Leong – AAPA Lifetime Achievement Award
Gordon Nagayama Hall – AAPA Lifetime Achievement Award
The fellows committee has also voted to approve the following AAPA members as new Fellows of the association:
Phillip Akutsu
Michi Fu
Su Yeong Kim
The above awardees and new fellows as well as the 2012 Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Fellowship awardees (Cindy Liu & Huijin Li) will be honored at the AAPA banquet in Honolulu on July 30, 2013.
Many thanks to the following committee members for their work:
Ad-hoc committee for early career award for service: Michi Fu, Gisela Lin, & Paul Wang
Awards committee: Barry Chung, Christing Iijima-Hall, Yosh Kawahara, Jeff Mio, & Joel Wong
Fellows committee: Barry Chung, Christing Iijima-Hall, Yosh Kawahara, Jeff Mio
AAPA-APF Okura Foundation Fellowship committee: Christine Iijima-Hall, Gayle Iwamasa (chair), Debra Kawahara, Ann-Marie Yamada