Mamie Kwoh Wang (died

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, 2002) was a director and vice-president of the American Bureau for Medical Advancement in China Inc (ABMAC). She was also a professor at the

Cornell School of Nursing The Cornell University School of Nursing was a nursing school in New York City founded in 1877 as the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses; it closed in 1979. The school awarded a Bachelor of Nursing degree after five years of study, two in ...

and helped develop the training program for nurse practitioners. She was predeceased by her husband

Shih-Chun Wang Shih-Chun Wang (1910-1993) was a Chinese-Americans, Chinese-American medical doctor, neuroscientist, and pharmacology professor. Early life and education Wang was born on January 25, 1910, in Tientsin, China. He attended Yenching University in B ...

, who was a physiologist and pharmacologist on the faculty of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Her daughter,

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, was the 9th Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and interim president of the University of Washington. Wang had a diploma in Nursing from Peiping Medical College School of Nursing (Peiping China 1938), B.S.

Yenching University Yenching University (), was a university in Beijing, China, that was formed out of the merger of four Christian colleges between the years 1915 and 1920. The term "Yenching" comes from an alternative name for old Beijing, derived from its status ...

(1938) and a M.A. from Columbia University (1943).

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