Mamie Wang

Mamie Kwoh Wang (died March 12, 2002) was a director and vice-president of the American Bureau for Medical Advancement in China Inc (ABMAC).[1] She was also a professor at the Cornell School of Nursing and helped develop the training program for nurse practitioners.[2]

She was predeceased by her husband Shih-Chun Wang, who was a physiologist and pharmacologist on the faculty of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.[1] Her daughter, Phyllis Wise, was the 9th Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and interim president of the University of Washington.[2]

Wang had a diploma in Nursing from Peiping Medical College School of Nursing (Peiping China 1938), B.S. Yenching University (1938) and a M.A. from Columbia University (1943).[3]

  1. ^ a b "Paid Notice: Deaths WANG, MAMIE KWOH". The New York Times. March 15, 2002. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b Wood, Paul (October 16, 2011). "New chancellor took her own path". The News-Gazette (Champaign–Urbana).
  3. ^ "Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing 1949-1950" (PDF). Cornell University. p. 39. Retrieved 11 May 2020.