BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Gary S. Lee, MD, Co-Chair, is a board-certified internist, geriatrician, and palliative medicine physician. He is currently a hospice medical director with Suncrest Hospice in the San Francisco Bay Area. He worked for over 25 years as a general internist and palliative care doctor at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, and helped to start and develop the palliative care program at VMC.
Dr. Lee was born in Oakland, attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate, and received his medical training at UC San Diego. He is married with two grown children, and he has lived in San Jose for over 30 years.
Emiley Chang, MD, MPH, Co-Chair, graduated from Stanford University Medical School and completed internal medicine residency at UC Davis and geriatrics fellowship at UCLA. She currently works as an internist and geriatrician at the Angeles Los County Department of Public Health and Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She has completed additional training in health services research, integrative medicine, and palliative care. Her goal is to improve the quality of care and promote holistic wellbeing for diverse older adults in the county through team-based and community-partnered strategies.
Jiali Sun, MD, PhD, MPH, Secretary Graduated from Fudan University Shanghai Medical School (certified by ECFMG in 2018) and practiced in Gastroenterology at a tertiary hospital in Shanghai. She then completed her PhD study on tumor immunotherapy at Baylor College of Medicine. Due to her interests in end-of-life care, Jiali is currently working as a medical consultant with the Community Health Network (CHN) to promote community-based palliative care services. She also serves as the secretary and member of the Board of Directors of Houston Hospice. She joined the volunteer team of CACCC in March 2021.
Jiali started to explore the meaning of life and death after the passing of her beloved father. She has long experience in mindfulness practices such as meditation, Tai Chi, and Yoga. She would like to work with CACCC colleagues to promote advance care education and integrate spirituality with health in Chinese American community and beyond.
Cindy Wang, CACCC Treasurer, is Accounting Manager at a Palo Alto consulting firm, where she has worked for more than 12 years. She has been the CACCC's South Bay Volunteer Support Group Coordinator since its formation in 2011 and has volunteered with the ACSCCU for more than 16 years.
Alex Tsao, PhD, is a volunteer and board member of CACCC where he helps coordinate CACCC Speakers Bureau’s community outreach seminars and workshops. Alex has worked in the technology industries for more than 30 years. He held technical management positions in communication satellite companies and was the founder and CEO of a wireless network company. In recent years, he has been active in community volunteer work. He served as a board member and president for American Cancer Society, California Chinese Unit and was a board member of Alzheimer’s Association, Northern California and Northern Nevada Chapter. He is currently a member of Alzheimer’s Association’s National Board of Directors and the Chair of Chinese Advisory Board for Alzheimer’s Association, Northern California and Northern Nevada Chapter. He is also an advisory board member for the Chinese Health Initiative project of El Camino Hospital and the New Hope Chinese Cancer Care Foundation. Alex is also a volunteer of Tzu Chi Foundation.
Yuaner Wu, PhD RN, MS, MPH has completed a post-doc fellowship at National Institute of Health-National Institute of Nursing Research. Currently, she is a researcher at UCSF-ZSFGH and a staff nurse at San Francisco VA Medical Center. Yuaner has been a CACCC's volunteer since 2005. She has played a few different roles which include interpretation, translation, member of Speaker's Bureau, lecturer of the volunteer training workshops. Yuaner believes that death and dying are natural transitions of human life. The circle of life can be beautiful if one is prepared.
Peggy Sheng currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the Chinese American IPA, Inc. (CAIPA). She is the CEO of CAIPA Management Service Organization and CAIPA Care LLC, an NYS accountable care organization. Peggy has been with CAIPA for over 25 years. Peggy established CAIPA Community Service Fund for the development and improvement of culturally competent, community-oriented service programs as well as research and educational projects that benefit the Asian-American communities in New York City. Peggy has been highly praised for her outstanding contribution in the community and also at the State government level. Peggy received the New York State Senator’s citation as “the Community COVID Hero” Award at NY State 2021 Lunar New Year Celebration.
C. Rocco Cheng, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist since 1996, has worked as a crisis counselor, team leader, project coordinator, program director, and corporate director at the Pacific Clinics, a 100-million dollar private non-profit behavior health agency for 21 years. He started a consulting firm, Rocco Cheng and Associates (RCA), in 2015 to provide culturally and linguistically responsive training, consultation, and technical assistance to local and statewide projects. He was an expert consultant to California State Department of Mental Health, Department of Health Care Services, and Mental Health Service Oversight and Accountability Commission (OAC). He’s also the founding director of a Tibetan Buddhist center in LA County for 11 years until his retirement in 2020. For more than 10 years, he has joined a volunteer group that helps build new schools in rural China and provide financial support to students in need in China and Taiwan. With CACCC, he’s interested in providing support to caregivers who support others for the end-of-life issues.
Simon Chow, RPh, LAc, MS, Simon is a California registered pharmacist. He works as a supervisor at the Central Fill Pharmacy of California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation. He serves the inmates in 32 State Prisons by fulfilling their daily drug prescription need using a computerized automation system. He used to be a pharmacy manager and an HIV Clinical pharmacist at Kaiser Permanente. He has been a board member of CACCC for about 10 years and also an instructor for the CACCC “Mindfulness for Caregivers” training class since June 2020.
As a board member, he would like to work together with other board members and all the CACCC volunteers to serve the end-of-life patients, their family members and caregivers with mindfulness, sincerity and loving kindness.
Jiayu Jeng Jeng Jiayu is a veteran in the Broadcast Industry. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Radio & Television at National Cheng-Chi University and a Master Degree in Mass Communication & Journalism at San Jose State University. Jiayu served as a reporter for the largest private radio company in Taiwan and hosted the radio broadcast of the Golden Bell Awards Ceremony in 1993. She arrived in the Bay Area in 1996 and has worked for many major Chinese broadcasting companies in the market.
Carrie Huang, MPH, Chinese Community Ambassador, Learning Journeys, San Francisco Palliative Care Workgroup, has been working for the hospice industry over the past ten years, mainly in the San Francisco Bay Area, serving the Chinese American community. Carrie was born and raised in Canton, China and is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and Toishanese. Being trilingual and bi-cultural helps Carrie gain trust from the Chinese community in the Bay Area and opportunities to introduce end of life/hospice care to group. Carrie has been a volunteer for CACCC for ten years. Carrie got her Master’s degree in Public Health from San Francisco State University.
ADVISORY BOARD
Dr. Jeffrey Yee, M.D. is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Care medicine. He served 20 years as the Chair of Internal Medicine at Woodland Healthcare. He is the medical director of Dignity Hope Palliative Care, and medical director of two community skilled nursing facilities and the Yolo Adult Day Healthcare Center. He is also the lead physician for developing the Patient Centered Medical Home Model in his organization. Dr. Yee is an advocate for team based care, community collaboration, and following palliative care principles. Jeff is the winner of the 2014 CCCC Leadership Award.
Melinda Leong Capozzi, Esq., received her law degree from UC Davis School of Law. After serving as Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Peter H. Carroll, US Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, she worked at law firms litigating cases involving public entities. Thereafter, as Deputy County Counsel in Alameda County, she represented social workers in child abuse and neglect cases. Melinda's passion for helping the most vulnerable in our society led her to joining the CACCC board. She advises CACCC in legal matters.
Teresa Cheng, a long-time volunteer of CACCC, Project Lead, CACCC Mindful Self-Care for Caregivers. She has been a freelance translator since 2005. Her interest is mainly in religions, meditation, and their implication and application to psychotherapy. Since then, 20 books of her translation have been published in Taiwan, China, and Malaysia. She was awarded, based on her work No Time to Lose, the 2009 Best Translator of National Book Award (i.e., National Golden Tripod Award) in Taiwan.
STAFF
Sandy Chen Stokes, RN, MSN
Founder and Execute Director
Sandy has focused much of her career and volunteer activities on end of life care, elder care, public health, and mental health issues in the Chinese American community. For her work with the CACCC, in 2008 Sandy was one of 15 nationally to receive the American Cancer Society’s Lane Adams Award. She was one of 10 in the nation to receive the 2011 AARP Inspire Award. Sandy was presented with the 2017 Compassionate Care Innovator Award for her extraordinary role in improving the quality of advance care planning and palliative care in California at the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (CCCC). Sandy is a member of the advisory board for the Chinese Health Initiative Project at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, California.
Shirley Pan, Director, was a volunteer with CACCC and previously to that a corporate communications manager and a field operations manager with a major high-tech company for 20 years.
Ling Chiu, Senior Program Coordinator, graduated from the Accounting Department of National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan, and studied for an MBA degree at California State University, East Bay. She and her family have lived in San Jose for over thirty years. She has worked as an Outreach Coordinator to promote Chinese community health education in Silicon Valley for many years. She hopes to help the Chinese community live a healthier life and face the end of life with dignity and respect by promoting the concept of “Live Well, Die Well”. Ling joined CACCC in April 2022.
Yannie Ho, MPH, Project Coordinator, graduated from Chinese University of Hong Kong with a master in public health and UC Irvine with a B.S. She worked in Hong Kong for 4 years accumulating experience in both project management and marketing within the pharmaceutical industry. Yannie joined CACCC in January 2020.
Mona Lao, part time Program Coordinator, graduated from UCSD, works in the legal field for more than 6 years. She joined CACCC in April, 2023.
Gail Lam, Project Specialist, graduated from University of California, San Diego. Gail works in the gaming industries for more than 3 years. She joined CACCC in Dec 2018.
Betty Chiang, Administrative Coordinator, After nearly 10 years as an ABA Certified Paralegal in private, public, and corporate sectors, Betty has rerouted her focus to non-profit work in end-of-life education and advocacy. She recently accepted the position of Office Manager with Coalition for Compassionate Care of California, but continues to volunteer for CACCC as the Administrative Coordinator.
Phil Stokes，MA volunteer Consultant, is a retired English Professor who taught at De Anza College for 33 years, and at Foothill College for three years before that. Phil writes and/or edits CACCC's English publications. He also served as CACCC's former webmaster.
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