4/10/16 co-organized Autism awareness lectures in Lexington, MA, Drs. Xuejun Kong, Daniel Koo, Agnes Y Man and Mei Zhang served as speakers, talked about autism from different perspectives, opened to community mainly autism parents and teachers.

Speakers:

Agnes Y Man: What is Emotion Coaching about?

June Kong: How to deal with challenging behaviors of your kids?

Daniel Cagua-Koo: How does environmental factors impact your and your kids’ mood and wellbeing?

Mei Zhang: How to identify talent of your kids?

Agnes Y Man, Clinical Social Work/Therapist,  LICSW  Ms. Man has been working with children, preteens and families since year 2002 in Massachusetts and Northern California of United States. She served Asian population in facing of developmental disabled issues and emotional disturbance due to domestic violence, child abuse/neglect in the west coast. Currently, she is bi-cultural psychotherapist provides psychotherapy integrated with different theories and therapies, e.g psychodynamic, CBT, ACT, REBT, Motivational Interview etc. to any ethnicity in Massachusetts.  She also provides consultation and conduct workshops in Chinese about emotional / mental health, child development and parenting skills in schools, churches and the community.

June (Xuejun) Kong, MD, Dr. Kong is a Faculty Physician and Researcher of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, President of American Chinese Medical Exchange Society (ACMES), Director of Institute to Cure Autism, and Co-Director Body & Brain Resilience Center, autism family clinic. She is also a co-director of special education program (Philly’s program) at church (CBCGB). She is specialized in medical intervention of Autism with East meets west approaches. She organized many international medical conferences and she is the Director of US-China International Autism Forum Steering Committee.  She is also founder and Editor-in-Chief of “North American Journal of Medicine & Science” and “North American Journal of Medicine & Health”.

Daniel Cagua-Koo, MD MPH Dr. Cagua-Koo is a 2007 graduate of the Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. While there, he was awarded the Presidential Award for Citizenship and Public Service.   In his prior career, Dr. Cagua-Koo founded and ran a faith-based nonprofit, organizing and serving high-risk Vietnamese youth in Dorchester, MA. He has extensive networks amongst urban churches and faith based organizations of Boston, rooted in his 12 years of urban ministry in Dorchester. He has extensive experience treating environmental toxicity, and in particular Biotoxin illnesses from Mold and Lyme (and co-infections).  Dr. Cagua-Koo’s passion is to see the best of systemic, holistic, and evidence/science-based medicine provided for the sickest of the sick.  Because of his own prior journey through a chronic ailment, he has a personal passion to see suffering people reverse their disease and reach their God given potential.

Mei Zhang, MD, PhD, IBCCES-CAS IBCCES Board Certified Autism Specialist at the Body Brain Resilience Center. He is the Program Director of Research in To Cure Autism Institute responsible for coordinating multiple research programs. He was trained for Pediatrics in West China University of Medical Sciences and obtained postdoctoral training in the Shanghai Institute for Pediatric Research, National Institute of Health and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School on neuroscience. He has been a Neuroscience researcher. Mei is also an artist with a long-standing passion in Chinese calligraphy and painting. He has been practicing Chinese arts for over 40 years. He served as the President of the West China Calligraphy Artists Association. Here in Massachusetts, he is an instructor in the Lexington Arts and Crafts Association (LACS) and a Guild Member in the Painter’s Guild.