North American Taiwanese Medical Association — Southern California Chapter (北美洲台灣人醫師協會南加分會)
North American Taiwanese Medical Association — Southern California Chapter (北美洲台灣人醫師協會南加分會) is listed as a group member of the |Taiwan Center Foundation of the Greater Los Angeles.
Identity Snapshot
- Chinese: 北美洲台灣人醫師協會南加分會
- English: North American Taiwanese Medical Association — Southern California Chapter
- Also seen: Taiwan Center listed “North America” and left a verify note. TAH yearbooks use North American. The verify note is not part of the name.
- Relation: Taiwan Center group member (official listing)
- Source: https://www.taiwancenter.org/group-members ·
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Role in the Community
- The chapter’s own yearbooks are held in the TAH Foundation collection: 847. 北美洲台灣人醫師協會 南加州分會2005年刊 (NATMA, 2005/09) — 847. 南加州分會2005年刊 — plus a later chapter magazine record — NATMA S. CA Chapter magazines.
- Name reconciliation: the TAH work record renders the English name as “North American Taiwanese Medical Association/S. CA Chapter” for 北美洲台灣人醫師協會南加分會 — S. CA Chapter — resolving the “verify EN name” caveat above.
- Parent-body context: NATMA has run international medical mission teams to Taiwan’s diplomatic allies since 2005 (e.g. the 56-person, 3,058-patient Guatemala mission, 2015/03), per a first-person memoir from the NATMA 總會年刊 — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys274|Our Journey #274]]; the associated foundation — NATMA Foundation.
- 1987-07: in the 1990 U.S. Census campaign, the chapter’s parent body 醫師協會（NATMA）was one of twelve Southern California Taiwanese groups (with TAA, TACL, FAPA, 北美教協, 人權會, NATPA, NATWA and others) that jointly mailed the census appeal to ~12,000 Taiwanese households in the U.S., per a first-person TACL memoir — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys253|Our Journey #253 (周實, TACL and the 1990 Census)]] (association-level record; the memoir does not name the SoCal chapter specifically).
- Further parent-body records in the TAH corpus: the NATMA/USA e-newsletter (2017/12) — USA eNewsletter — and the NATMA Delegates Taiwan Medical Progress Exchange Tour (11/05–12/2017) — 28. NATMA Delegates Exchange Tour; neither record names the SoCal chapter specifically, so they are held as association-level context only.
- Founding (chapter-level, from NATMA memoir): the 南加分會 was the second chapter of NATMA to be established (after the Kansas City chapter). Following the parent association’s 1984 founding, 陳惠亭、陳政宏、林衡哲、洪章仁、陳清義 held several preparatory meetings and founded the chapter on 9/15 (1984); 陳惠亭 (a SoCal member) subsequently became NATMA’s fourth 總會長. — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys74|Our Journeys #74 (NATMA 發展史)]]
- Political-education role in the 1980s: shortly after founding, the chapter invited 陳永興 and 洪奇昌 to lecture, originating the 「台美醫學交流研討會」 concept, and invited lawyers 江鵬堅 and 郭吉仁 to explain the legal issues of the 美麗島事件; at its 1985 年終晚會 the chapter hosted former AMA president Dr. M. Todd on foreign-physician malpractice issues. From 1992 onward the 台美醫學交流研討會 became the chapter’s main annual-convention program, and the chapter 會刊 grew rapidly in content. — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys74|Our Journeys #74]]
- 2016-10-17: chapter-hosted 台美醫學交流會 recorded in the TAH corpus — S. California.
- 2017: two chapter video records in the corpus — a 大洛杉磯台美人傳統月 press conference on the chapter’s 牙科義診 and CPR課程 (2017-05-03) — 59. 傳統月記者會：牙科義診及CPR課程 — and 許正雄醫師 (Daniel Hsu, D.M.D.) at the chapter’s 2017 年會 — 88. NATMA SC Chapter Annual Convention 2017.
- Additional chapter publications in TAH holdings: 南加分會暨總會年會特刊 2007 — 849. 2007 年會特刊 — and 南加分會年刊 2009 — 851. 2009 年刊.
- Chapter foundation history authored by 許正雄 (Daniel C. Hsu): History of NATMA Foundation (2018-02-09).
Source Notes
- Content priority A: Name on Taiwan Center group-members page
- Hub: |taiwancenter.org
- Content priority C: Independent history not expanded from listing alone