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 developed 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 a M.A. from Columbia University.