Mamie Wang
Mamie Kwoh Wang was a director and vice-president of the American Bureau for Medical Advancement in China Inc. She was also a professor at the Cornell [School of Nursing] and helped develop the training program for nurse practitioners.
She was predeceased by her husband Shih-Chun Wang, who was a physiologist and pharmacologist on the faculty of the Columbia University [College of Physicians and Surgeons]. Her daughter, Phyllis Wise, was the 9th Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and interim president of the University of Washington.
Wang had a diploma in Nursing from Peiping Medical College School of Nursing, B.S. Yenching University and an M.A. from Columbia University.