Mamie Wang Explained

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.

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. 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]

References

  1. News: Paid Notice: Deaths WANG, MAMIE KWOH . 11 May 2020 . The New York Times . March 15, 2002.
  2. News: New chancellor took her own path . . October 16, 2011 . Paul . Wood.
  3. Web site: Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing 1949-1950 . Cornell University . 11 May 2020. 39.