Board of Directors & Founding Members
2024 AAPINA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(Chairpersons of Standing Committees and Past Presidents)
Chair
Jing Wang, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN
Immediate Past President
Chair, Nominating Committee
Professor & Dean
Florida State University, College of Nursing
Members
Eun-Ok Im, PhD, MPH, RN, CNS, FAAN
AAPINA – Past President
Dean & Professor, Laura Lee Blanton Chair in Nursing
University of Texas at Austin, School of Nursing
Oi Saeng Hong, PhD, FAAN
AAPINA – Past President
Professor
University of California, San Francisco
School of Nursing
Alona D. Angosta, PhD, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, FAAN
AAPINA – Past President
Professor & Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship
Baylor University, Louise Herrington School of Nursing
Seonae Yeo, PhD, RN, FAAN
AAPINA – Past President
Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Nursing
Weihua Zhang, PhD, AGACNP-BC, ANP-BC
Chair, Finance Committee
AAPINA- Past Treasurer
Clinical Professor
Neil Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
Heeyoung Lee, PhD, PMHNP-BC, FAAN
Chair, Award Committee
Associate Professor & Chair for Health & Community Systems
University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing
Angela Chia-Chen Chen, PhD, PMHNP-BC, FAANP
Chair, Communication Committee
Professor, McLaren Greater Lansing Endowed Chair for Behavioral Mental Health Nursing Education
Michigan State University, College of Nursing
Hyochol Brian Ahn, PhD, APRN, FAAN
Chair, By-Laws Committee
Chair, Program Committee
AAPINA President-Elect
Professor & Dean
University of Arizona, College of Nursing
Linda Kim, PhD, RN
Chair, Membership Committe
AAPINA Secretary
Research Specialist, Nursing Research
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Ex-Officio
Jung-Ah Lee, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAAN
AAPINA President
Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Belonging
University of California, Irvine
Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
FOUNDING MEMBERS OF AAPINA (1992)
Dyahne D. Affonso, PhD (CA)
Theresa T. Chen-Louie, DNSc (CA)
Marilyn P. Chow, DNSc (NY)
Betty S. Furuta, MS (CA)
Lily Hsia, MS (NY)
Jillian Inouye, PhD (HI)
Rebecca Kang, PhD (WA)
Mi Ja Kim, PhD (IL)
Helen Emori King, PhD (CA)
Fan-Lan Kuo, PhD (NJ)
Kem Louie, PhD (NJ)
Dorothy S. Oda, DNSc (CA)
Anita P. Satterly, MS (KS)
Sally Y. Tsuda, MS (Guam)