Dear CADA members, I would like to provide the following two messages:

(1) Summary of the 3rd CADA annual meeting:

On behave of the second CADA board members (Feng Liu, Jianping Ye,
Zhongmin Ma, Zhenqi Liu, Cuihua Zhang, and myself), we are pleased to
summarize our third CADA academic meeting at New Orleans, June 4 and
June 5, 2009. Under the leadership of Jianping (the 2nd President of
CADA), we have had a very successful meeting this year with the
following features: (1) We have the largest meeting this year in terms
of meeting program, attendance and conference room. The program was one
and half day (it was two half day meeting before). We have 24
representatives of CADA and CDS in the meeting. The conference room in
the Children’s Hospital can hold more than 100 people and with excellent
equipment. (2) We have 3 representatives from CDS (Chinese Diabetes
Society). They are Drs. Yang Wenying, Zhou Zhiguang, and Zeng LongYi.
Although Dr. Weng Jianping could not attend this meeting, he has sent a
message to several members of us to express his support of, and
congratulation to, this meeting (see attached email from him). Both Dr.
Yang and Dr. Zhou made presentations; (3) The presentations by the CADA
members covered a very wide field in science, including type 1 and type
2 diabetes, insulin and adiponectin signaling, transcriptional factors,
inflammatory cytokines and cardiovascular complications, and potential
new drugs for diabetes and its complications; (4) We have a very
exciting and informative discussion during the lunch and dinner time in
terms of the hot topics in the near future of diabetic research; and (5)
Three CADA members were nominated as candidates for the 3rd CADA board
members, and Ji Li was elected to be the new board member as a
treasurer. Dr. Lu Cai has been elected as the third CADA president.
After the annual meeting, several CADA board members (Feng Liu, Jianping
Ye, Zhongmin Ma, Lu Cai and Ji Li) had a dinner with two CDS members
(Drs. Jia Weiping and Zhou Zhiquang) and discussed the future
collaboration between CADA and CDS, particularly for the 2009 CDS annual
meeting (will be held in ZhengZhou, at the first weekend of November
2009). Therefore, we have had a very successful meeting this year. (5)
We arranged a visit of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, where
Jianping Ye studies insulin resistance. Congratulation!!!!

With the success, we appreciate the effort of our CADA member Yeqi Liu
who arranged the conference room for this meeting in the Children
Hospital auditorium with free of charge. He also provided a lot of
information support. We are grateful to the contribution from Cuihua
Zhang who took care of registration, meals and transportation in the
meeting. We also thank Zhongmin Ma who prepared the meeting program and
updates. All of the meeting activities provided excellent opportunities
to the CADA members and the CDS representatives to interact each other.
Here, we highly appreciate the meeting attendants who provided financial
support to the meeting with the registration fee or spent time in the
organization of activities, which makes the meeting possible and
successful.

The third CADA board is formed by following members:

Lu Cai, President,
Zhongmin Ma, Vice President,
Zhenqi Liu, Secretory,
Cuihua Zhang, Membership Director
Ji Li, Treasurer.

We believe that CADA will continue to grow under the leadership of the
third board. We have been and will continue to appreciate input from
every member. Hope to see all of you at next get-together dinner meeting
or academic annual meeting.

Lu Cai, the 3rd CADA President
Jianping Ye, the 2nd CADA President


(2) Speech from the president

It has been a great honor for me to serve as the 3rd President of the
Chinese American Diabetes Association (CADA) for the next two years
(June 2009 to May 2011). As a board member since its formal inception in
2004, I have witnessed the powerful growth a
nd impressive achievement of
CADA under the leadership of theYe) and Board members. The CADA organization has grown bigger and
stronger each year, not only reflected by the increased number of
memberships, but more by the professional and academic accomplishments
of our members. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of
our members, especially those in the past Boards and the current Board.

We had a very successful and exciting annual meeting and reception in
New Orleans this year. On behalf of the new Boards, I congratulate to
the 2009 meeting attendees for their excellent scientific presentations.
Looking forward, there are so many challenges ahead of us, especially
under the current financial crisis in US. I am committed to work with
the Board members closely to continue to implement our mission and
plans. During the 2009 meeting, the new Board has met and defined a role
for each committee (which is posted in this issue of Newsletter as well
as in our website. We will work together to increase our membership; we
will develop more programs to provide better service to our members,
such as mentorship program; we will take big steps in our outreaching
and collaboration with professional associations, contact research
organizations, and industries around the world, especially in China.
Furthermore, we will keep our identity as an internationally and
nationally recognized special interest group as CADA. To achieve these
goals, we strongly encourage every CADA member to be actively involved,
including the get-together dinner and academic meeting alternatively
each year. To support these activities, we may start to have membership
for all CADA members (to be discussed and announced in detail later). I
am looking forward to your support and working with you all.

CADA is a nonprofit organization and the operation is carried out with
voluntary effort of the board members. Please reach us with your warm
hand!

Lu Cai, on behave of the third CADA board members

Summary of the 2007 CADA meeting
 
Dear CADA Members:
 
Following is a summary of the 2007 CADA meeting that is just accomplished by the second CADA panel. We wish to report to you about the activities and results in the meeting.   
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Summary of 2007 CADA Meeting at Chicago
 
The second CADA meeting was held in Chicago during June 21 and 22, 2007. The meeting was in the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Chicago, and had 35 attendees (25 from US, and 10 from abroad including China mainland, Hong Kong, Singapore). Twenty peoples presented their research work. Drs. Jia Weiping from Shanghai and Lu Jumin from Beijing who represented the Chinese Diabetes Association introduced diabetes research in China. The meeting was successfully completed according to the plan. Attendees enjoyed very much the presentations by the CADA members and oversea visitors. They appreciated the opportunity to meet new friends and to spend wonderful times together. You may have observed these in pictures that were published by Jianhua Shao in an e-mail to everybody last week. Following are some major points from the meeting.
 
Election of the second panel of CADA officials was done. The first team of CADA officials was formed by five members: Feng Liu (President), Jianping Ye (Vice President), Lu Cai (Secretary), Zhongmin Ma (Treasure), and Linda Cai (Membership). Among the achievements completed by this first panel, several are worth to mentioning. These include establishment of CADA in 2004, setup of bylaw and CADA bank account, registration of the CADA as a non-profit organization, development of CADA website and growth of membership to 65 people. All officials made significant contributions to these accomplishments. However, Feng, Lu, Minghui and Zhenqi who provided the original idea of forming CADA or their leadership to the first CADA panel were very critical to the success of CADA. Here, we express our special appreciation of their contribution.
 
The election was conducted according to the CADA bylaw, in which each term of CADA panel is two years. The second panel is following:
 
Advisor (Past President): Feng Liu, Ph.D., Professor, expert in insulin signaling, University of Texas at San Antonio.
 
President:  Jianping Ye, M.D., Professor, expert in insulin resistance, Louisiana State University.
 
Vice President: Lu Cai, Ph.D., Associate Professor, expert in Diabetic cardiovascular complications, University of Louisville.
 
Secretary: Zhongmin Ma, Ph.D., Associate Professor, expert in Beta-cells, Monsanai School of Medicine.
 
Membership: Zhenqi Liu, M.D., Assistant Professor, expert in vascular biology and diabetes complications, University of Virginia.
 
Treasurer: Cuihua Zhang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, expert in vascular biology, Texas A&M University.
 
During the meeting, following issues are discussed.
 
    1.    Modification of bylaw to meet the development needs of CADA, such as defining responsibility and term length of CADA officials, future meeting format, and financial rules.
    2.    Promotion of academic interaction among CADA members, such as exchange of information and reagents, providing consultancy on grant, manuscript and research.
    3.    Provide more support to junior faculties in their research, grantmenship and career development that includes writing reference letters for promotion.
    4.    Continue to collaborate with colleagues in China and other regions.
 
In finance, the meeting received $5720 income from meeting registration ($3750) and Merck donation ($2000). Cost of the meeting is $6202 including rent of conference rooms, miscellaneous and meals. Due to previous income from Merck’s Donation, there are still $7349 in balance in the CADA bank account after this meeting.
 
Finally, we thank Dr. Bei Zhang (at Merck) who has been providing consistent financial support to CADA since 2004, and Dr. Xiaojian Sun who made arrangement for the conference room, presentation equipments and meals.
 
By the second panel of CADA  
 
July 4th, 2007.