Posted Mon, 05/10/2010 - 14:52 by ljz
Dear TJMCOAA Members:
Year 2009 is to be over soon. Thanks to the joint effort by all the members, TJMCOAA has made encouraging progress in the past year. This organization, the family of all TJMC overseas alumni, has grown bigger and more mature, and has become more enjoyable for many members.
First of all, I would like to thank all those who donated to this association. Their generosity made it possible for us to carry out a series of activities that will prove beneficial not only to the Alma Mater and all our alumni, but also to the humanity in general. We successfully accomplished our goal for our contribution to Qiu Fazu Foundation that was initiated by our Past-President Jiamin Teng. We awarded scholarship to 3 medical students who demonstrated great academic potential but were in terrible finacial distress. Another Past-President, Dr. Guohua Li, together with Dr. Huiyun Xiang, Mengrong Li and Sijiu Shen, compiled a collection of scientific publications from TJMCOAA members during the past year, which helped disseminate knowledge and was well received and praised by our counterpart in TJMC. Dr. Hengyi (Henry) Liu, our 2010 President, helped to establish a resident exchange program between Tulane University and the Union Hospital of TJMC, which will provide opportunities for high quality training of medical students and residents from China and America, and promote understanding and thus improving the medical systems of both countries. TJMCOAA also sponsored the Larry Zhang English Competition and the reception of TJMC visitors in New Orleans, Houston, Philadelphia, Boston, Albany, Chicago, and San Francisco. All these activities will make the world better and “smaller”.
In order to help with overseas alumni's survival and success, we have made great effort to push TJMC to improve their credential and certificate confirmation process, and, finally, obtained enthusiastic support from the Dean and cooperation from the Students Office. While still improving, the credential and certificate confirmation requests are now processed much more efficiently than before. We should thank our Vice President and Director of Credential Division, Dr. Peiyi Hu, for her selfless and diligent effort to serve our alumni. Please notify her if anyone intended to obtain credential or certificate confirmation from TJMC or experienced any problem in such process.
Many of our members are physicians or other medical professionals in the United States and other western countries. In order to take advantage of this resource, we established the TLMCOAA Medical Advisory Service". Drs. Wei Peng, Keqin Hu, Sijiu Shen, Peiyi Hu, Henry Liu, Wuyi Xia and Dongfeng Tan and others helped organize the service. Many alumni volunteered to join this Advisors' team, devoting their time, knowledge and expertise to help us understand and utilize the health systems of our residing countries and improve the mental and physical health of our alumni.
I should emphasize that TJMCOAA is a volunteer organization, and is run by all those selfless and devoting volunteers. Many members continued to serve their caring role even when their personal lives are facing challenges. Take our Newsletter as an example. In order to compose a high quality Newsletter, our Editor-in-Chief Dr. Hu Ding, and Editor Dr. Jiamin Teng, have to monitor all the activities going on in relation to our association, and periodically put things together. Many times they need to solicit articles from others, and many times their need to write themselves. Many of us may not know that during the past year, both of them experienced serious job security issues. There are also quite a few other Board members who experienced health, family, or career difficulties, but they never let it down. I am deeply touched by their devotion to this organization, and their spirit of “making the world a better place to live.” I do not encourage anyone to overly sacrifice one’s own interest to serve the association. I hope, though, that all those who can afford, please participate whenever you can, to share the duties of the “family”.
On behalf of TJMCOAA, I would like to express a special gratitude to two groups of “staff members”. For a long time, they have been working extremely hard behind the scene. One is our Financial Division with Xiaojing Zhang, Ming Chen and Jing Peng. The other is our IT team with Leon Gong, Lanjing Zhang, Guanzu Wang, Jing Deng, Gary Lu, and others. Their work is critical and vital to this organization, and requires so much effort and devotion that they have to take turns to continue the services. These jobs have taken toll on these people. Owning to their tireless effort, we have established a new website that is easier to maintain and update, and thus will provide better communication service to our alumni. Right now, they are trying to transfer articles from the old website (tongjioversea.org) to the new site (tongjiyiren.com). We have 4-5 years’ content on the web, and it would take quite a while to complete the transition. It will be a while before the advantage of the new website begins to emerge. I urge everyone to have a look of the new website, to pay frequent visits to our new “home” and provide your opinion as to how to make it a better home for everyone.
Just when I was feeling lucky to have had a relatively uneventful year and began to countdown my days as President, something historical for this organization happened. This was the vast participation of our alumni in the heated discussion of several social issues. The first one was triggered by the CCTV disclosure of medical errors that involved the death of one of our alumni. Other discussions and debates were triggered by several articles recommended by individual members. I am glad to see that even though we have different opinions on different issues, we all share the same goal: a better, more democratic, and more humane world. During the heated discussions and debates, our members have demonstrated in-depth vision and social maturity. We all learned something from each other, and inspired each other. I hope to see more activities like these, and hope that during future discussion or debate on any issue, we remain respectful to each other, no matter how different our points of view might be.
I would like very much to take this opportunity to thank a special person. Initially I plan to do so in private, but decided that this would have been unfair to her. This person is my wife, Li Han, who is also one of our alumni. I have a busy job for a living, while I also need to spend a great deal of time as President of TJMCOAA. I am not an efficient person, but always want to try the best. It usually takes several hours to write a page of notes. As a result, much house work that was supposed to be mine became hers, including sending our 14 year old son to various activities. Many a time she wanted my help, but when she saw that I was busy with alumni affairs, she would jokingly say: “Forget about it, be with you Great Cause!” And then started to do what was supposed to be my share of the family duties. I simply cannot perform my “job” without her support. She should be credited for any contribution, if any, that I have made to this association.
I am often bothered by the thought that my capability is so limited and I cannot respond to the need of this association effectively or deal with all issues in a timely fashion. Nonetheless, I am happy to see the progress we have made in the past year, which is possible only because of the joint effort from all members, particularly the Board members and the 2008 President Jiamin Teng and 2010 President Henry Liu. I thank you all for the support from the bottom of my heart! I have no doubt that in the coming year, our organization will see greater achievements under the leadership of our new President, Dr. Henry Liu.
Wish you all a happy, healthy and prosperous 2010!
Baihan Li
President of TJMCOAA, 2009
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亲爱的海外校友们:
2009年就要过去了。在过去的一年里，同济医学院海外校友会在全体校友的共同努力下取得了很多令人鼓舞的成绩，这个组织变得更加成熟和壮大，这个“家”也变得更热闹了！
首先，我们应当感谢那些为了校友会的利益、为了母校的发展而慷慨解囊、踊跃捐款的校友（具体财务情况将在校友会网页上公布）。由于校友们的慷慨，使我们顺利完成了由上届主席滕嘉敏启动的裘法祖基金募捐活动，还给三位贫困优秀学生发了奖学金。这些，以及由李国华、向惠云、李孟荣、沈四九组织编撰的《同济医学院海外校友会论文集2009》、由2010届主席刘恒意创导建立的协和医院与TULANE大学医学院之间的住院医生交换实习项目、促办“同济医学院海外校友会张哲瑞杯”英语竞赛、在新奥尔良、休斯顿、费城、波士顿、阿尔本尼、芝加哥、旧金山等地接待同济、协和两院和华中领导访美等等活动，都体现了广大校友对母校发展壮大的真切期望、关怀和爱心。
为了支持海外校友在海外的生存和发展，海外校友会与同济医学院教务处就海外校友的学历、学位认证事宜进行了反复协商，最后在同济医学院领导的大力支持下，在教务处领导和具体人员与校友会证件组的通力合作的过程中，使证件服务得到信息畅通，反馈及时，日趋完善，为不少校友在海外寻求发展提供了方便。这里，我们应感谢兼管学历学位认证服务的校友会副主席胡培怡医生。希望校友在办学历、学位认证之前和她打个招呼；遇到问题时，及时与她联系。
为了充分利用许多校友在国外行医这个资源，我们建立了“同济医学院海外校友会医疗咨询服务”。在彭伟、胡克勤、沈四九、胡培怡、刘恒意、谈东风、夏五一等人的组织带动下，许多从事医疗职业的海外校友踊跃加入了这个“顾问团”，用自己的知识和专长来帮助校友们理解和使用国外医疗条件，促进校友们的身心健康。
同济医学院海外校友会是一个志愿者组织，她的一切运行都全靠校友们无私的奉献。许多校友在自己的生活和工作受到挑战时，还致力于为校友会服务。就拿我们的小报（Newsletter）来说吧，为了办好每一期小报，主编丁虎和副主编滕嘉敏都得时时盯着所发生的事件，定期加以整理，还要催稿和自己撰写。不巧的是，他们两人在这一年里都经历了严峻的工作危机。此外还有好几个其他不愿透露姓名的人，他们在身体上、家庭上或工作上经历了不同程度的挫折，但并没影响他们为校友服务。我深为他们的“为了这个世界更美好”而无私奉献的精神所感动。在此，我不鼓励任何人为了校友会而付出太大的个人牺牲；而希望每一位校友，在力所能及的情况下，能帮则帮，能顶则顶，提一个建议，说一声“好！”，对校友会的工作给予支持，为共同理好这个“家”而分担一份“家务”。
借这个机会，我想代表全体海外校友特别向两组“工作人员”表示衷心感谢和慰问。他们长期以来在“幕后”孜孜不倦地辛勤劳作，为了这个团体的利益付出了巨大的个人牺牲。一个是以张晓静、陈鸣和彭静为核心的“财务组”。除了日常“理财”之外，她们担负起了为我们这个团体争取“非盈利性、非政治性”的“501（c）3”身份的重任，历经两年多的时间，无数次与IRS通信来往。最近这几天，将在刘恒意等人的协助下，准备好最后一批材料，过最后一道关卡，（但愿！）在两三个月内会最后通过。
另一个是我们的“IT组”。校友会网站在这个团体的生存和发展中的重要性就不用多说了。除了日常维持和更新网页内容以外，为了进一步加强海外校友间的联系和交流，为广大校友提供一个更方便更实用的交流平台，以龚晓亮、张澜静、王光祖、邓京、卢刚为核心的IT组在经过半年多的反复讨论研究和前赴后继（这个词在这里一点也不夸张）的努力后，终于完成了新网站框架的建立。目前，他们正忙于网页内容由旧网址（tongjioversea.org）向新网址（tongjiyiren.com）的过渡。四、五年的内容，够他们忙一阵的！还需要大家一段时间的共同努力，新网站的作用才会显现出来。希望大家常去探访这个新“家”，出出点子，把它理好。
正当我暗自庆幸一年即将平安过去、倒计时准备交班时，平地里卷起风云。先是央视关于熊卓为事件的报道激发了校友会内一场空前的关于中国医改的大讨论。随后，几篇校友推荐的文章和报道也引起了激烈争论。我高兴地看到，每一个参与或关注这些讨论的校友，都关心着人类社会的进步，都有着很高的思想成熟度。许多人获益于此：或促使思考，或获得启迪，或理顺思路，或看清利弊。希望大家今后继续踊跃“投稿”，分享喜爱的作品；喜欢点评的人，注意用语分寸；持不同观点时，不失尊重友善。
还有一个我非常想感谢的人。本想私了，但又觉得不讲对她太不公平。她就是我们的校友、我的妻子韩力。我本来工作就忙，加上办事效率低（打一页纸的字要两三个小时，还不止！），偏偏又认真，因此常把家务推给她，包括十四岁孩子课外活动的接接送送。很多时候她想叫我帮忙，但看到我在读写EMAIL，就无奈而又打趣地说：“又在干你的革命工作了！”然后默默地去做本应是我做的事……如果说我对校友会有任何贡献的话，有一半是她的。
我自愧能力有限，很多时候不能及时应付校友会的事。但由于广大校友、理事会各部人员、尤其是上届主席滕嘉敏和候任主席刘恒意的大力支持和协助，使我们校友会有所发展和进步，在此一并向大家表示衷心感谢！我相信，在新的一年里，同济医学院海外校友会将在刘恒意主席的带领下取得更大成绩！
在2010年新年到来之际，瑾祝大家身体健康、工作称心、家庭幸福、万事如意！
李百涵
同济医学院海外校友会2009届主席
2009年12月31日