Congratulations to Dr. Tina Lam! She is nominated and named the "Community Service Recognition Award" recipient by the Ontario Dental Association
Dr. Tina Lam
Co-Founder
Dr. Lam is a general dentist who practices in both community health centres and private practice. She is passionate about public health promotion and has been involved in different volunteer projects. In 2016, she was invited to deliver oral health seminars to over 500 residents in Hong Kong. The experience has inspired her to start a group here in the GTA to reach out to the Chinese population. Together with Dr. Chen they have co-founded AIME, a community initiative that she hopes will help share interdisciplinary health knowledge to Chinese in their native language. Dr. Lam speaks fluent English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Dr. King Chen
Co-Founder
King is a pharmacist working at a community pharmacy. He has worked in various settings: long term care, hospital and university, but found that community is the best way to reach out to patients. From volunteering internationally and locally, he knew his passion in life was to help people. He hopes to make a difference in people’s lives and help patients learn their medications and other approaches to gain a better control of their health. By co-founding AIME with Dr.Lam, it is one of the first step to tap into the general public to provide interdisciplinary care on a personal and friendly level.
Dr. Grace Lee
Director
Grace graduated with her MD degree from the University of British Columbia, and she is currently a Family Medicine resident physician at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Born in Taiwan, she speaks and writes both English and Mandarin. She is passionate about collaborating with an interprofessional team for health advocacy in the public. Grace has ample experiences with volunteer initiatives in the community, and through AIME, she is excited to help reduce barriers to healthcare for the Mandarin-speaking population.
Dr. Bernard Ho
Director
Bernard graduated with his MD degree from the University of Toronto, and he is a Family Medicine resident at UofT. Through his experiences, he has become passionate about health advocacy and working with vulnerable and marginalized populations, and has worked on both grassroots- and systems-level initiatives. He hopes to bring this same passion to AIME. Outside of school, Bernard likes to read, write and travel the world looking for the best brunch restaurants.
Thomas Guo
Director
Thomas is a Senior Manager working at Baker Tilly WM LLP, where he has experience in working with professionals, owner managed businesses and not-for-profit organizations. He works closely with businesses and organizations to provide important accounting, taxation, and consulting services. Thomas graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Masters of Accounting Degree and has over ten years of experience as a trusted advisor for business owners.
Dr. Kelly Li
Director
Kelly is a medical oncologist-in training. She obtained her MD degree from UBC and completed her core Internal Medicine training at University of Toronto. She is currently completing her subspecialty residency training in Medical Oncology at the BC Cancer Agency in Vancouver. Having worked primarily with the marginalized population in Downtown Toronto, both prior and throughout the pandemic, Kelly is passionate about health equity and bridging the gap between advancement in medicine and patients’ access. She is able to provide care in both English and Mandarin. She has been speaking at AIME’s previous seminars including the topics of Osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s Dementia, hepatitis and Gastrointestinal Reflux Disease.
Executive Team
Volunteers who manage the day-to-day of AIME operations
Margaret is a Registered Dental Hygienist who graduated with the highly competitive Golden Scaler Award. She is passionate about improving oral health for our Chinese community. Maggie speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and English fluently, and she is currently in charge of community outreach for AIME. During her term, she hopes to liaise with different organizations to promote health amongst Chinese in the GTA. She is also a strong believer of AIME’s multidisciplinary approach for health promotion and she is excited to serve her community!
Margaret Meng
Chair
Community Outreach Team
Irene is an Occupational Therapist currently practicing in the community, long-term care center, and in acute care hospitals in British Columbia, after graduating from Queen's University. It is Irene's hope to make healthcare information accessible, relevant, and interesting. As well, Irene strives to increase transparency, understanding, trust and collaboration at various level of healthcare, and between practitioner and patients. At work, Irene uses English, Mandarin, and Cantonese for assessment and treatment. She has also contributed to AIME on falls prevention, post-stroke rehabilitation, and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Irene Poon
Chair
Interprofessional Team
Jes Huo
Events Coordinator
Jes is a practicing chiropractor and registered massage therapist in Ontario. She operates 2 clinics in the GTA area providing unique approach to pain care. She combines her family tradition in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western anatomy to treat the root of the pain. Jes believes that being healthy is a proactive choice, where one actively seeks to learn more about medical knowledge, he/she can make a better choice for a healthy body and mind. Jes is interested in helping the Chinese community gaining more knowledge in pain relief, injury-prevention and rehabilitation.
I am currently a second year PharmD student at the University of Toronto. I am responsible for the translation of medical and health articles. I believe that information determines people’s decisions, so I am excited to be part of AIME and deliver up to date health information to Chinese population in GTA!
Wendy Chen
Video Editor and Language Support
Tony is a current third year pharmacy student at the University of Toronto. He is in charge of AIME's website maintenance and establishing AIME's presence on Wechat. Tony joined AIME to advocate Canadian healthcare system to the Toronto Chinese community. He wants to learn more about how Chinese Canadians are utilizing healthcare. Tony is fluent in both English and Mandarin.
Tony Zhang
Webmaster
Winnie Hui
Logo Designer
Winnie has been a graphic designer since 2014. She enjoys helping other people and businesses to build a strong presence through design and consulting services.
For AIME’s logo, she uses the hospital cross as the main frame because of AIME’s vision in healthcare. The colours of the logo are ocean blue and green - giving out the feeling to “heal”. Lastly, the Chinese words 昇華 can relate to “rise”, and that is why she uses the “sunrise” symbol on top of the cross - giving out a feeling of a “spark” that is needed to get the fire going as well.
Check out Winnie’s websites
https://winniedapooh192312.wixsite.com/thetreasures
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Lawrence comes from a liberal arts and business background, holding a BA in Political Science and MS in Management respectively and has worked in writing, editorial, content creation and communications capacities within the financial and professional services industries. He is fully bilingual in English and Mandarin Chinese and is in charge of communications efforts for AIME, focusing on Facebook maintenance and email communications.
Lawrence Yuan
Communications Officer
I am a pharmacist who works in drug safety and community pharmacy, with experience in family health teams and critical care. As an immigrant myself, I help other immigrants navigate the Canadian healthcare system and learn about their health and medications so they can live their best life.
Karen Wang
Video Project Lead
**AIME DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS**
AIME Community Service Award
This is awarded to ONE healthcare speaker in each calendar year who demonstrated continuous support to the community outreach effort of AIME. To receive this award, this individual would have provided the most numbers of healthcare seminars to the community in that year. No application is necessary to be considered for this award. The recipient of this award will receive a certificate in honor of their achievement. This award carries no monetary value.
AIME Executive Member Commitment Award
This is awarded to ONE current executive team member who distinguished themselves for their dedication in the voluntary mission of AIME. This member must serve or will serve in the executive team for their entire term of appointment. This member will be chosen by their peers in the executive team, each member will have a single vote of equal weight. All votes must be submitted to the President (Dr. Tina Lam) on or before Nov 30, 2022. If more than one finalist is generated, a final election will be performed amongst the team to determine the award recipient. No application is necessary to be considered for this award. The recipient of this award will receive a certificate in honor of their achievement. This award carries no monetary value.
AIME Undergraduate/Postgraduate Volunteer Award
This award is created to celebrate the dedication of ONE AIME volunteer, who is currently enrolled in a Canadian undergraduate healthcare program. This person has consistently showed support to various aspects of AIME volunteer mission in the community. This person may or may not be an executive member of AIME. Interested applicant must submit a letter of intent to seminar.info.aime@gmail.com on or before Nov 30, 2022. This award will be selected based on a joint decision by the Chair of the Community Outreach Team and the Chair of the Interprofessional Team. The recipient of this award will receive a certificate in honor of their achievement. This award carries no monetary value.
Letter of intent should include
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Applicant’s name
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Details of their undergraduate healthcare program (year of study, name of program)
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Their contribution in AIME in the specific year that they are applying for
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Why should they be considered for this award
Letter of intent should follow specific format
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One-page maximum, standard margin, single spaced
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Font: Times New Roman
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Font size: 12 points