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Student Travel Awards for Thao (Vanessa) Pham

April 12, 2025 by jamiehp1 Leave a Comment

Congratulations to senior undergraduate research assistant Vanessa Pham on receiving both the UCI UROP and CFCCC Trainee Travel Award! These awards allowed Vanessa to help with our lab’s presentation of STAR Study findings at the Society for Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine 82nd Annual Scientific Meeting. The presentation titled, “The Vietnamese Adult STRAIN: Psychometric Properties and Predictive Utility,” was one of the few community-participatory projects at the conference and featured our community partner, Vital Access Care Foundation! Huge thanks from Dr. Kim and Vanessa to all co-authors Hennie Nguyen, Dung Hua, Becky Nguyen, Zach Gray, Dr. George Slavich, and behind-the-scenes major contributor, lab alumni, Annie Pham.

CFCCC Trainee Travel Award for Jacqueline Chow

April 12, 2025 by jamiehp1 Leave a Comment

Congratulations to UCI medical student Jacqueline Chow on receiving the graduate-level CFCCC Trainee Travel Award!

This award, offered by the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (CFCCC), provides travel and conference funding to UCI Trainee Members actively contributing to cancer research. Awardees were selected based on the scientific rigor, innovation, and potential impact of the research. This award allowed Jackie to present findings on her first-authored poster, “Cultural adaptation of psychotherapy for Mandarin- and Vietnamese-speaking metastatic cancer patients,” at the Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM). Much gratitude to all our scientific and community advisory collaborator co-authors (Dr. Peter Phung, Becky Nguyen, Carol Wang, Dr. Jenny Tran, Dr. Tan Nguyen, Dr. Sarah Hales, and Dr. Gary Rodin) who actively contributed to this portion of the research. It was a very lively session!

APOS 2025 Health Equity Scholars Plenary

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Congratulations to Dr. Jacqueline H.J. Kim on her invitation as a health equity plenary session speaker at the American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS) 2025 Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! APOS is a network of professionals dedicated to advancing the quality and equity of psychosocial oncology care.

Under this year’s theme, “Strengthening Bridges Between Clinical Practice and Research: New Perspectives in Psychosocial Oncology,” Dr. Kim presented on the association between lifetime personal/sociopolitical trauma and psychological distress in Asian Americans with metastatic cancer. Her work brings new perspectives to psycho-oncology by exploring the intersection of cancer care, trauma, and mental health.

Asian American Cancer Special Issue in the Asian American Journal of Psychology

October 23, 2024 by jamiehp1

We are excited to announce the publication of the “Special Issue: Expanding the Frontier of Asian American Cancer Control and Survivorship Research.”

This is the first ever cancer special issue in the Asian American Journal of Psychology, guest co-edited by Drs. Jacqueline Kim, Qian Lu (MD Anderson Cancer Center), and Carolyn Fang (Fox Chase Cancer Center). Many renowned scholars in the field of Asian American cancer control and survivorship contributed to the special issue including Drs. Tung Nguyen, Marjorie Kagawa Singer, Janice Tsoh, Scarlett Gomez, and other distinguished Asian American Research Center on Health (ARCH) members.

Articles in this special issue span across cultural, social, and structural factors that contribute to disparities among Asian Americans with cancer and to developing programs for cancer control and survivorship.

CLICK HERE to view Drs. Lu, Kim, and Fang’s introduction of this issue in more detail.

CLICK HERE to view our lab’s first DAWN study publication about the supportive needs of Asian Americans with Metastatic Cancer, in collaboration with Dr. Kauser Ahmed (UCLA), Dr. Sang-Hoon Ahn (USC), Becky Nguyen (VACF), Dr. Peter Phung (USC), Shirley Pan (CACCC), Dr. Qian Lu (MD Anderson), Dr. Marjorie Kagawa Singer (UCLA), Dr. Annette Stanton (UCLA).

CLICK HERE to view Dr. Kim’s collaboration with Drs. Qian Lu (MD Anderson), William Tsai (NYU), and Nelson Yeung (Chinese University of Hong Kong) examining socioeconomic status, stress, cancer-related fatigue, and sleep among Chinese American breast cancer survivors.