Leadership

Winston Wong, MD, MS, FAAFP

Winston Wong, MD, MS, FAAFP, is a Scholar in Residence at the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity at the Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA. A fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice, Dr. Wong’s professional career has encompassed leadership roles at community health centers, federal service and most recently at Kaiser Permanente, where he served as Medical Director for Community Benefit for over 17 years. His commitment to addressing health equity is anchored by his experience as a bilingual primary care community health center physician for the Asian immigrant community in Oakland Chinatown, which led him to leadership roles in the United States Public Health Service, where he served as HRSA’s chief Clinical Officer for a region than spanned the Pacific and western United States. At Kaiser Permanente, he was responsible for its national philanthropic strategies to support clinical and population management initiatives with the safety net, and for its quality initiatives to address disparities within its 12 million membership.

In 2016 he was appointed to the US DHHS Advisory Committee on Minority Health, and in 2019 was appointed chair. At the NASEM he chairs the Roundtable on Health Equity, and has served on the Board of Population Health and Public Health Practice. As a leader in philanthropy, he has active Board roles at the California Endowment and Grantmakers in Health. He also previously served as Board Chair for the School Based Health Alliance and is the current CEO and Chair of the National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians. His work in developing programs and policies to address health equity has been recognized by awards from the California Primary Care Association, Latino Health Access, the Minority Health Foundation, Asian Health Services, and Congresswoman Barbara Lee. In addition to his 2020 Scholar in Residence appointment at UCLA, Dr. Wong received a Doctor or Humane Letters from the A.T. Still of Osteopathic Medicine.

Martina Leialoha Kamaka, MD, FAAFP

Martina Kamaka, MD, FAAFP is a board-certified Family Medicine physician who hails from Kāneʻohe, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. After attending the Kamehameha Schools Kapālama, she obtained her B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame, an M.D. degree from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) and completed her residency in Family Medicine in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 



Dr. Kamaka is a Professor in the Department of Native Hawaiian Health at JABSOM. She has been teaching there since 1999 while pursuing a her passions in Native Hawaiian health, health equity, cultural competency /humility training and workforce development. Dr. Kamaka is a recipient of the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching. She is a current Climate and Health Equity Fellow (CHEF), a DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) Commissioner for the American Academy of Family Physicians as well as founder and previous board member of the ʻAhahui o nā Kauka (Association of Native Hawaiian Physicians) and Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC). She has been a board member of the National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians (NCAPIP) since 2012 and currently serves as Vice-Chair. 

Stephen Chao, MD, MPH

Stephen Chao, MD, MPH (pronouns: he/him/his) is a family physician who practices in the underserved safety-net/community health setting in Houston, Texas. He is the medical director of the Squatty Lyons Health Center in Humble, Texas, one of the twelve Community Health Centers that are part of Harris Health System —the county clinic and hospital network which serves approximately one million under-insured and uninsured people in Harris County, the third most-populous county in the United States. Dr. Chao is an Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He previously was a staff physician at Legacy Community Health Services, a federally qualified health center in Houston, Texas, and was previously on the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine as well.

Born and raised in Houston, he attended Rice University, graduating with degrees in Biochemistry and Health Policy. He received his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and also completed his family medicine residency training at UT Health San Antonio. His interests include care for immigrant and refugee populations, community health, and public policy. Dr. Chao also recently served on the national board of Physicians for a National Health Program. He believes in providing health care for all.

Arthur Chen, MD

Since 1983 Dr. Arthur Chen has practiced as a family physician at Asian Health Services in Oakland, California where he also served as Medical Director. From 2001-2009 he served as the Chief Medical Officer of the Alameda Alliance for Health, a Medicaid Managed Care non-profit health plan. From 1996-2001 he was the Public Health Officer for Alameda County. Prior to that he served as the Associate Medical Director of the Institute of Emergency Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He was also the Executive Director of the New York Chinatown Health Clinic.

Board of Directors appointments: 2001 – present (Chairperson, 2006-2008) The California Endowment, a health foundation. From 1988-2006 (Chairperson, 1998-2006) the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum, a national policy and advocacy organization.From 1997-2001 (Executive Committee, 2000-2001) the California Conference of Local Health Officers.From 2001-2003 the Task Force on Culturally and Linguistically Competent Physicians and Dentists for the CA Dept of Consumer Affairs.Between 1997-2001 he served on the National Association of County and City Health Officials MAPP (Mobilization for Action through Planning and Partnerships) planning committee. From 2004 to present, he served as an Executive Council member of the Alameda Contra Costa County Medical Association.

Dr. Chen was the recipient of the 2008 California Medical Association Foundation’s Robert D. Sparks, MD Leadership Award. He was selected as a fellow to the 1996-7 Public Health Leadership Institute sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and the University of California. During l989-l992 he was a member of the Kellogg National Fellowship Program. He has also served on advisory and planning committees to the Bureau of Primary Health Care of the U.S. Public Health Service, the Office of Minority Health, the National Institutes of Health and the American Lung Association.

Antonio Moya, MD, MPH

Antonio Moya, MD, MPH is a Board-Certified Neurologist and Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He is also Co-Founder and served as Executive Director of the Council of Young Filipino Americans in Medicine (CYFAM). Antonio cares for patients at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center as well as High Desert Regional Health Center in Lancaster, California. He completed his fellowship at the UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program and his neurology residency at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. Prior to residency, he graduated from the UCSF School of Medicine as a PRIME-US Scholar and completed his MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health, focusing on Global Health in Asia. Antonio was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in the Philippines prior to medical school, researching the potential of telemedicine stroke care in this archipelago nation of more than 7,000 islands.

Dr. Moya currently focuses his work on the health of the Filipino and Asian Pacific Islander community. He has also served as a medical director for the UCSF Mabuhay Health Center and Director of UCSF Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA). Antonio continues to partner with many Los Angeles based Filipino community organizations, and his research and community work has been awarded multiple grants to prevent stroke, high blood pressure, and COVID-19 among the underserved. He is interested in stroke prevention and treatment, teleneurology care, and Asian Pacific Islander health disparities.

Susan Wu, MD

Susan Wu is a Pediatric Hospitalist at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. She is also Director of the Pediatric Residency Community Pediatrics and Advocacy Program. She received both her undergraduate degree and medical degree from Northwestern University in Chicago, and completed a pediatric residency and chief residency at Children’s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland. Her research interests include healthcare access, injury prevention, and childhood respiratory diseases. She serves on the boards of the California Physicians Alliance, (the state chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program), the American Academy of Pediatrics Chapter 2, and the Asian Pacific Community Fund.

Sheldon Riklon, MD, FAAFP

Sheldon Riklon, MD, FAAFP is a Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). He serves as Principal and Co-Investigator at the UAMS Institute for Community Health Innovation and Co-Director for the Center for Pacific Islander Health at UAMS Northwest Campus. He holds the Peter O. Kohler, M.D., Endowed Chair in Health Disparities, and is the recipient of the 2021 Dr. Edith Irby Jones Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2024 Dr. Joycelyn Elders’ Minority Health Pioneer Award.

Dr. Riklon, a native Marshallese, is one of only two Marshallese globally to complete US-accredited medical school and residency training. He is a family physician at Community Clinic, serving Marshallese and underserved populations in Northwest Arkansas. He earned his bachelor’s in biology from the University of Hawai`i (UH) at Hilo and graduated from the John A. Burns School of Medicine at UH Manoa. His research focuses on reducing health disparities through patient-centered research, diabetes self-management education, improving healthy food access, and developing culturally competent healthcare practices for Marshallese and other Pacific Islander migrant communities. Additionally, he advocates for policy changes to enhance health equity for COFA citizens in the US.

Jehmon Lee, MD

Dr. Lee is a radiologist at UCI Health – Los Alamitos in Los Alamitos, CA. He has been a board member of NCAPIP since its very beginning. He was one of the original student organizers that started the Asian Pacific American Medical Students Association (APAMSA) in 1995, and has helped lead APAMSA’s Advisory Board ever since. He is president of the Orange County chapter of OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates, and has previously served in many roles in the National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP), including National President.  He is also Medical Advisor for the Diagnostic Medical Sonography programs at Platt College in Southern California.



Dr. Lee received his bachelor’s degree in Engineering Sciences at Harvard University and his medical degree from the University of Maryland. He completed his residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Chicago, where he was chief resident, and a fellowship in abdominal imaging at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

On the side, Jhemon writes and performs sketch comedy with the Asian American comedy group “No MSG Added,” and he and his wife previously performed improv comedy for years with groups such as Cold Tofu, Los Angeles’ longest running API improv troupe.

Nadine Tenn Salle, MD

Dr. Nadine Salle is an internist in Honolulu, Hawai`i and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Kapi`olani Medical Center for Women & Children and Queen’s Medical Center. She received her medical degree from Keck School of Medicine of USC and has been in practice for 17 years.

Namratha Kandula, MD

Dr. Namratha Kandula is Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and her research is focused on health equity for Asian Americans, the epidemiology of cardiovascular health among US South Asians, and community-engaged cardiovascular prevention research. Dr. Kandula’s research has contributed fundamental understanding of how immigration and culture shape health. She is co-PI of the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) study, which is the first longitudinal cardiovascular cohort study focused on understanding the development and progression of cardiovascular disease in South Asian Americans. She leads a multisector partnership across the Chicago-metro area to improve cardiovascular health equity.

Victoria Shi