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CAPA official announcements, to be promoted to front page, in chronological order

CAPA COVID-19 Relief Award Winners

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June 24, 2020

Dear CAPA members,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 CAPA Awards for COVID-19 Relief. The review committee included representatives of the CAPA members, donors (non-CAPA member) and COVID-19 committee members. After vetting the applicants’ eligibility, avoidance of the conflict of interest and rigorous review, we ranked the proposals, and finalized the winners. The awards (up to $1,500 each) will enable the high school and college students to effectively and timely relieve the burdens of CVOID-19. The awardees will acknowledge CAPA support wherever possible and provide the CAPA with a final report upon ending the projects.

The winners are:

Please join us in congratulating these warmhearted and outstanding high school and college students!

Lanjing Zhang, MD
President, and Chair of the COVID-19 Committee
Chinese American Pathologists Association
Vice Chair of Pathology, and Director of GI& Liver Pathology
Princeton Medical Center, Plainsboro, NJ
Professor in Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

On behalf of the Review Committee (alphabetical order)
Jian Jing, Zaibo Li, Yuanxin Liang, Jiqin Ma, Huanyou Wang, Weihua Yin, Yaxia Zhang& Lanjing Zhang

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CAPA COVID 19 research award announcement_2020

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Dear CAPA members,

This is to announce the winners of our CAPA Research Awards on COVID-19.  First, I would like to thank all members of our research committee for their hard workto get the results finalized and winners announced on time.  Each awardee will be awarded $1,200 dollars to to publish their COVID-19 research on scientific journals or present them at a national or international meeting.

The two winners are:

NameProject titleInstitution

Limin Yu, MD, PhD

Assistant professor

(limin.yu@beaumont.edu)

Prediction of ICU admission of COVID-19 ER patients using machine learningOakland University MI

Kun Hu, MD

Pathology resident

Kun.hu08@gmail.com

State heterogeneity of COVID-19 epidemics in the European UnionUniversity at Buffalo NY

Please join us to congratulate Drs. Yu and Hu on their excellent work to combat COVID-19!

Xiuli Liu, MD, PhD

Chair of CAPA Research Committee

Chinese American Pathologists Association (CAPA)

CAPA Research Committee (year 2020-2021) Members

Haodong Xu, MD, PhD

Guoping Cai, MD

Weibiao Cao, MD, PhD

Feng Yin, MD, PhD

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Two Important Announcements from CAPA President

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Dear CAPA Members,

Please see two important announcements below.

Announcement 1: CAPA Expert-Group (Specialty) Registration

CAPA is currently working on CAPA member Expert-Group (Specialty) registration to promote communication and collaboration among CAPA members, and Chinese colleagues. Please complete the form by 11:59pm on June 26, 2020.

Registration link: https://forms.gle/kXbbqpohxvczQThy8

Announcement 2: Change of CAPA Membership Dues

To help achieve CAPA missions, CAPA BOD has unanimously approved to raise CAPA Regular and Lifetime membership dues. New CAPA Regular and Lifetime membership dues will be $80 and $800, respectively. Meanwhile, Associate CAPA membership remains free. The new CAPA Membership due schedule will be effective on July 1, 2020.

Thank you for your continuous support for CAPA!

Stay safe and healthy!
 

Lanjing Zhang, MD, CAPA President

Call for the CAPA Research Award on COVID-19

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The Chinese American Pathologists Association (CAPA) encourages its members’ research efforts to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic.  It will provide research award for pathology residents or junior pathology faculty to publish or present their studies  on COVID-19.  The award will be used to cover publication fees and travel expanses. The goal of this award is to enable pathology residents and junor faculty to publish their COVID-19 research on scientific journals or present them at a national or international meeting and showcase CAPA members’ dedications and research creativity.

Eligibility: Pathology residents currently being trained in North America (US and Canada) or pathology junior faculty currently at the levels of instructor or assistant professor are eligible to apply.  The research project should focus on COVID-19, is completed or near completion, and the applicant should be either first author or principle investigator.   

Deadline of submission: June 6, 2020 11.59PM (EDT)

How to apply: Please email your application to Dr. Xiuli Liu at xiuliliu~at~ufl.edu.  Your application should include a brief summary of COVID-related research work you have completed or almost completed, the name of the journal you are planning to submit or have submitted to, and/or the name and time of the professional meeting you are going to present your research work.  Note: The font size should not be smaller than 10, the margins not smaller than 0.5 inch, and length of your summary not longer than 2 pages without extra space between lines.  Please use the form below and submit it as a word file.

Review and selection criteria: The applications will be blindly reviewed, scored, and selected by the CAPA Research Committee.  The selection criteria include but are not limited to the following:

  1. The research should focus on the medical and social impact assessment of COVID-19, particularly on their alleviations, epidemiology, virology, pathology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and/or treatment.
  2. Scientific significance, novelty, and/or impact on knowledge advancement.

Notification: The applicant will be notified of the application outcome from the CAPA through email by July 6th, 2020.

Number of awards: Three

Amount of each award: $1,200

Questions: E-mail Xiuli Liu at Xiuliliu~at~ufl.edu, Chair of CAPA Research Committee

Application Form: down the attached PDF file.

 

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The CAPA Awards for COVID-19 Relief

The Chinese American Pathologists Association (CAPA) will provide awards to help relieve the burdens and damages associated with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the U.S. and China. These awards will enable high school and college students to develop and implement various programs that alleviate the medical, public health, financial, psychological and socioeconomic issues related to the COVID-19. We hope to motivate the next generation of Americans to get involved in humanitarian causes. Preferences will be given to the proposals closely aligned with medical fields, specially pathology. We thank the donors for their generous support.

These awards are divided to the two components: Category A). To support the children of the health care providers who died in fighting COVID-19 in China. Category B). To alleviate the aforementioned issues related to COVID-19 in the U.S. The CAPA will provide a total of $2,000-$3,000 for the category-A proposals, and $3,000 to $4,000 for the category-B proposals.

Eligibility: Students in high school or an accredited U.S., U.K. or Canadian college, who must be sponsored by a CAPA member and whose eligibility must be confirmed by the same CAPA member. By submitting the proposal, the applicant agrees to provide the CAPA a summary report at the end of the project, and to acknowledge the CAPA’s support in any product, presentation or publication of the funded project. An applicant can apply to both categories.

Deadline: June 6, 2020 11:59PM (EDT)

How to apply: Please submit your application on line along with a proposal (only pdf or doc file allowed) excluding budget-page and references. Note: The font size should not be smaller than 10, the margins not smaller than 0.5 inch, and length not more than 3 pages (single spaced). Submission site: https://forms.gle/ym9rG828JZyJwZVp6

Please refer to the announcement document for further details.

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Updates on the donation to fight COVID-19

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We thank the following donors for their generous support to CAPA’s fight against COVID-19. Please also double check your name is in the list if you have contributed. Should we miss you name, please let Dr Lanjing Zhang (capa_2020Hotmail.com) know immediately. We will periodically update this list.

Updated on 2020-3-23 4pm

1        Guoping Cai
2        Fan Chen
3        Fengming Chen
4        Frank Chen
5        Hannah Chen
6        Shaoxiong Chen
7        Yayan Chen
8        Jason Cheng
9        miao cui
10        Jing Di
11        Fang Fan
12        jingyang feng
13        Liying Fu
14        Yumei Fu
15        yuebo gan
16        Ling Gao
17        Yun Gong
18        Yan Gu
19        lizhen gui
20        Ming Guo
21        Min Han
22        Xin Han
23        xueli hao
24        Kun Hu
25        Shaomin Hu
26        Zhihong Hu
27        Dali Huang
28        Wei Huang
29        Xiaoyan Huang
30        Huimiao Jiang
31        Ming Jiang
32        Ming Jin
33        Yong Ke
34        JINPING LAI
35        jianhong li
36        Jinhong Li
37        Peng Li
38        Rongshan Li
39        Shaoying Li
40        Xiaodong Li
41        Zaibo Li
42        Songlin Liang
43        Xiaoyan Liao
44        Fan Lin
45        Xiaoqi Lin
46        Lin Liu
47        Shujuan Liu
48        Weiguo Liu
49        XIAOQIN LIU
50        Xiuli Liu
51        Zhonghua Liu
52        Xiaolin Liu-Jarin
53        Changqing Ma
54        Naili Ma
55        Jun Mo
56        Zenggang Pan
57        Yan Peng
58        yue peng
59        Jihui Qiu
60        Bing Ren
61        Shuyue Ren
62        dejun shen
63        Min Shi
64        Wen Shuai
65        Jie Song
66        Mu Su
67        Yanyu Sun
68        Wozhan Tang
69        Xiaoying Wan
70        Dapeng Wang
71        Dengshun Wang
72        Diping Wang
73        He Wang
74        He Wang
75        Huan-You Wang
76        Ling Wang
77        Lu Wang
78        Minhua Wang
79        Sa Wang
80        Yihong Wang
81        Chinlee Wu
82        Yihui Wu
83        Wei Xie
84        Haodong Xu
85        Huihong Xu
86        Limin Yang
87        ximing yang
88        yu yang
89        Jinjuan Yao
90        Bin Zhang
91        Dongwei Zhang
92        Haiying Zhang
22 Helen Zhang (with Xin Han)
93        Lanjing Zhang
94        Linsheng Zhang
95        Liying Zhang
96        Songlin Zhang
97        Wei Zhang
98        Xiaohui Zhang
99        Xinmnin Zhang
100        xuchen zhang
101        Yanhong Zhang
102        Yaxia Zhang
103        Yingtao Zhang
104        Bihong Zhao
105        Chengquan Zhao
106        Su Zheng
107        jiehao Zhou
108        Jing Zhou
109        Zhongren Zhou
110        Hui Zhu
111        Yi Zhuang

 

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Call for donation to fight COVID-19

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Call for donation to fight COVID-19

March 19, 2020

Dear fellow CAPA members,

COVID-19 has spread in the U.S. and posed considerable harms to the public and the healthcare providers. Therefore, the CAPA BOD and I would like to call for donations to fight COVID-19.

As I ask for your contribution, I pledge:

  1. Form an ad hoc COVID-19 committee of members with diverse background. They will together decide how to best use the donated funds. See action plan below.
  2. Host a town hall meeting to collect your ideas and feedback on how to best solicit donations and use the funds.
  3. Update members the sum of donation and itemized expenses regularly (currently weekly).

To donate please go to: https://www.capa-ht.org/donation/ . You can write a note on your desired use of your donation, which we will try our best to honor.

Thank you very much!

Lanjing Zhang, MD

CAPA President, 2020-2021

 

The COVID-19 committee’s action plan (approved by the BOD)

  1. Establish a multitask fund to support fighting COVID-19 infection. It may include but not limit to the urgent funds/resources for CAPA members related to COVID-19 infection, and aids to the area(s) with viral outbreak requiring urgent help. The fund will come from CAPA allocation and member donations, and will be subject to the BOD’s approval. The usage of the fund should be transparent and published at CAPA website or other media regularly.
  2. Solicit the ideas from CAPA members on how to contribute fighting COVID-19.
  3. Invite experts in infectious disease and diagnostics to educate CAPA members of the updates of the viral infection via online lecture platform.
  4. Promote collaboration of CAPA pathologists with the pathologists in China or other physicians with experience to study the pathogenesis of COVID-19.
  5. Use part of the donations to COVID-19 to fund the research focused on COVID-19. The research committee will be in charge of the solicitation, review and selection of submitted projects.

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The 18th CAPA Annual Business Meeting and Scientific Symposium

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Dear CAPA members, friends and supporters:

The Chinese American Pathologists Association (CAPA) is pleased to announce that the 18th CAPA Annual Business Meeting and Scientific Symposium will be held on Saturday afternoon, Feb 29th, 2020 at the JW Marriott Los Angeles Hotel, Diamond Ballroom (1, 2 and 3).

We welcome scientific exhibitions and sponsorships. If you would like any further information, please feel free to contact CAPA President Dr. Huan-You Wang at huw003@health.ucsd.edu or CAPA Treasurer Dr. Huihong Xu at huxu@bu.edu.

Please mark your calendar for the exciting and informative meeting, and we look forward to seeing you.

Announcement-PDF version