Mamie Kwoh Wang (died March 12, 2002) was a director and vice-president of the American Bureau for Medical Advancement in China Inc (ABMAC). She was also a professor at the

Cornell School of Nursing The Cornell University School of Nursing was a nurse education, nursing school in New York City founded in 1877 as the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses; it closed in 1979. The school awarded a Bachelor of Nursing degree after five yea ...

and helped develop the training program for

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s. She was predeceased by her husband

Shih-Chun Wang Shih-Chun Wang (January 25, 1910 – June 6, 1993) was a Chinese-Americans, Chinese-American medical doctor, neuroscientist, and pharmacology professor. Early life and education Wang was born on January 25, 1910, in Tianjin, China. He attended ...

, who was a physiologist and pharmacologist on the faculty of the

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. Her daughter, Phyllis Wise, was the 9th Chancellor of the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

and interim president of the

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. Wang had a diploma in Nursing from Peiping Medical College School of Nursing (Peiping China 1938), B.S.

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(1938) and a M.A. from

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(1943).

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