NATMA and 2G Regional Meeting

The annual NATMA and NATMA 2G - Northern California annual meeting and lecture series has been scheduled. We have a great line-up of 2nd generation Taiwanese Americans as speakers!

Date: May 24 (Sunday), 2009
Educational program: Free
Dinner Cost: $25 per person
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100132478297
RSVP exact number of people to Julin Tang at (415) 206-8927 or tangj@anesthesia.ucsf.edu.

MEETING LOCATION:
William Walker Recreation Center
650 Shell Blvd, Foster City, CA 94404

MEETING SCHEDULE:
2:00 - 2:45pm Registration/Reception
2:45 – 3:00 Introduction/Special Guest: Assemblyman Ted Lieu
3:00 – 3:20 Emergency Contraception, Tampons and Asian-Americans - Sophia Yen, MD
3:25 – 3:45 Cardiac Arrhythmia Update - Sam Wang, MD
3:50 – 4:20 What is Plastic Surgery - Alex Lin, MD
4:25 – 4:45 Asians and Glaucoma - Shan Lin, MD
4:50 – 5:15 Guest Speaker: Samuel Chou, MD, PhD
5:15 – 5:30 Election of New President/Annual report

DINNER BANQUET:
5:45 – 8:00 Dinner @ ABC Seafood Restaurant (walking distance from the meeting location)
973 East Hillsdale Boulevard, Foster City, CA - (650) 328-2288

Springtime Quarterly Dinner

It's been awhile! Time for another NATMA 2G gathering in the SF Bay area! This time, we're going to piggyback off of a fine event organized for an excellent cause! We'll join members of Taiwanese American Professionals in San Francisco and supporters/organizers of the upcoming Taiwanese American Cultural Festival for a fun-filled evening! Funds raised at this event will go towards supporting an excellent festival!

NATMA 2G DINNER
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Scruffy Murphy's, 187 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale, CA
RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=84825039824

Afterwards, we'll head upstairs to the TAP-SF Social at the same location and join up with Taiwanese American Professionals - SF Chapter!

SOCIAL
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Scruffy Murphy's, 187 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale, CA
RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=82900467896

COME OUT and MINGLE with friends of Taiwanese American Professionals - SF Chapter at the luxurious Scruffy Murphys (ScruffyMurphysCA.com) club in Sunnyvale for a social mixer and fundraiser for the upcoming Taiwanese American Cultural Festival (SFTAFest.org).

The upper floor will be reserved exclusively for this fundraiser. It can hold up to 120 people. The first floor can hold 200 people. If needed, a portion of the first floor will be freed up for us.

$15/person before 9pm. $20/person after 9pm. Ticket includes 1 well drink and free appetizers. All proceeds go toward supporting our upcoming Taiwanese American Cultural Festival!

Please RSVP to help us estimate a head count.

A Benefit Event for Asian Community Mental Health Services

Join the Taiwanese American community for this event featuring young musicians and artists! Proceeds will go towards supporting Asian Community Mental Health Services.

Date: December 21, 2008
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: 1750 Sunnyvale Avenue, Walnut Creek, CA
Information: (925) 943-1925 or (510) 234-7281 or ebfumcyouth@gmail.com
Cost: $10 Adult $5 Student

Sponsored by East Bay Formosan UMC Youth
http://ebfumcyouth.org

Lecture: "The Drugging of Taiwan"

Did you know that Taiwan as a nation was addicted to opium in the 1930’s? Did you also know that Taiwan had an annual consumption of over 187,000 kilograms of imported opium during 1890s? Learn how the Japanese empire used and abused Taiwan’s resources and how the opium trade coincided with Japan’s annexation of Taiwan.

Dr. Jen Yih Chu, a prominent physician specializing in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology as well as foremost historian will discuss events in the 1930s that became the turning point for medical practice for Taiwanese physicians.

Date: Saturday, November 15, 2008
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Taiwan Center, 4988 Paseo Padre Pkwy, Fremont, CA
Sign up on the Evite here:
http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/WJUIIXLLFVOOAWCKSYLD/taiwanhistory

Sponsored by NATMA-Northern California Chapter

NATMA 2G Fall Quarterly Dinner

Please join us for our NATMA 2G Quarterly dinner. Hopefully we will have a speaker from Asian Health Foundation to introduce their organization. Please feel free to invite your friends and colleagues.

Date: Sunday, November 9th
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Joy Restaurant, 1489 Beach Park Blvd, Foster City, CA
Host: Florence Lin, flin73@yahoo.com

Please feel free to invite friends and networks, especially if they're somewhat related to a medical / health professional field. For more info or to RSVP, go to the public Evite:
http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/BGSGLZUKBJFQIMWDKQEC/natma2g
Please RSVP by November 7th!