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Asian American/Pacific Islander Researchers and Scholars Work Group
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Martin Y. Iguchi, Ph.D. (Chair)
Professional Title: Professor
Affiliation: UCLA School of Public Health, Department of Community Health Sciences
Contact: iguchi@ucla.edu
Program Link: http://www.rand.org/media/experts/bios/iguchi_martin_y.html
Area of Expertise: Drug Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and HIV Outreach, Drug Policy, Epidemiology, Mental Health, Criminal Justice

Linda Chang, M.D.
Professional Title: Professor of Medicine Program Director, Neuroscience and MR Research
Associate Director, Clinical Research Center
Affiliation: Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii
Contact: lchang@hawaii.edu
Program Link: http://www.hawaii.edu/mri/index_files/LChang.htm
Area of Expertise: Neuroimaging, HIV, Substance Abuse, Brain Development and Aging

Sulie L. Chang, Ph.D.
Professional Title: Director, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology Professor of Biological Sciences
Affiliation: The College of Arts and Science, Seton Hall University
Contact: changsul@shu.edu
Program Link: http://pirate.shu.edu/~changsul/research.htm
Area of Expertise: Delineating the Effects of Chronic Opiate Exposure on the Penetration of the HIV-1 Virus through the Vascular Endothelial Cell (VEC) Barrier in the Immune-challenged Individual

Denise Hien, Ph.D.
Professional Title: Senior Research Scientist
Affiliation: Social Intervention Group, Columbia University School of Social Work
Contact: dah26@columbia.edu
Program Link: http://www.whpnyc.org
Area of Expertise: Predictors of and Treatments for Interpersonal Violence, Substance Use Disorders, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among Urban Women

Yih-Ing Hser, Ph.D.
Professional Title: Professor in Residence
Affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
Contact: yhser@ucla.edu
Program Link: http://www.uclaisap.org/profiles/hser.html
Area of Expertise: Substance Abuse Treatment Evaluation, Epidemiology, Natural History of Drug Addiction, and Innovative Statistical Modeling Development and Application

Velma Asayo Kameoka, Ph.D.
Professional Title: Director, Social Research Institute Professor, Department of Psychology
Affiliation: University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM)
Contact: velmak@hawaii.edu

Ford Kuramoto, M.S.W., D.S.W.
Professional Title: Director
Affiliation: National Asian Pacific American Families Against Substance Abuse, Inc.
Contact: fhkuramoto@napafasa.org
Program Link: http://www.napafasa.org/about/staff.htm
Area of Expertise: Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment in Asian and Pacific Island Communities

Grace Macalino, Ph.D.
Professional Title: Deputy Director
Affiliation: Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health
Contact: grace.macalino@downstate.edu, gmacalino@arthurasheinstitute.org
Program Link: http://www.arthurasheinstitute.org/programs.html
Area of Expertise: Racial/Health Disparities, Criminal Justice Populations, Epidemiology

Avindra Nath, M.D.
Professional Title: Professor of Neurology
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University, Department of Neurology
Contact information: anath1@jhmi.edu
Program Link: http://www.hopkinsneuro.org/ms/doc.cfm?i=71
http://www.neuro.jhmi.edu/nroID/experts.htm
http://neuroscience.jhu.edu/AvindraNath.php
Area of Expertise: Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuroimmunology, Identifying the Mechanisms of Neural Injury Mediated by Glial Cell Activation in the Setting of HIV Infection

Tooru Nemoto, Ph.D.
Professional Title: Principal Investigator
Affiliation: Public Health Institute
Contact: tooru.nemoto@comcast.net
Program Link: http://www.phi.org/about.html
Area of Expertise: Asian/Pacific Islander Substance Use, Sexual Behaviors and HIV Risk

Rumi Price, Ph.D.
Professional Title: Research Associate Professor
Affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine
Contact: pricer@psychiatry.wustl.edu
Program Link: http://epi.wustl.edu/mpe/faculty_Pri.htm
Area of Expertise: Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Epidemiology, Human-Genome Epidemiology Focusing on Race/Ethnicity and Substance Use and Abuse, and Genetic-behavioral-social Models of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Substance Abuse Comorbidity

Frank Wong, Ph.D.
Professional Title: Associate Professor (Tenure Track)
Affiliation: Department of International Health, School of Nursing and Health Studies, Georgetown University
Contact: fyw@georgetown.edu
Program Link: http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/fyw/
Area of Expertise: Community-based Research, Racial/Ethnic and Underserved Populations, Substance Abuse and HIV Prevention

Bryan K. Yamamoto, Ph.D.
Professional Title: Professor, Chair
Affiliation: Department of Neurosciences, University of Toledo Health Sciences Campus
Contact: Bryan.Yamamoto@utoledo.edu
Area of Expertise: Neuropharmacology/Neurotoxicity of Amphetamines, particularly Methamphetamine and MDMA (Ecstasy)


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