Our friends at The Asia Society, AsianWeek Foundation, and the Chinese Hospital are having a major public event this month entitled “Fighting Hepatitis B in the Asian American Community.”
Panelists include Dr. Baruch Blumberg, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the Hepatitis B virus, and who later developed a diagnostic test and vaccine against it; CA State Representative Fiona Ma, the author of CA Bill 158 and a renowned HBV activist; Dr. Samuel So, director of the Asian Liver Center at Stanford University and a national leader of the campaign against HBV; and Ted Fang of the AsianWeek Foundation and a leading advocate of HBV treatment and education.
Event will take place:
Wednesday, September 15th
5:30PM - Registaration
6:00PM - Program Begins
Genentech Auditorium
UCSF Mission Bay Campus
600 16th Street, San Francisco
Cost:
Students/Asia Society Members $8.00
Non-members $15.00
An interesting, educational and community event! Hope you all get a chance to attend!
For more information regarding this event, please contact our friends at Asian Week Foundation: Angela Pang, Community Relations Manager at apang@asianweek.com.
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