Tuan Nguyen, Ph.D.
President
Shaukat Zakaria
Vice President
Michael Jang
Treasurer
Regenia Hicks, Ph.D.
Secretary
Peter Chang, M.D.
Viet Hoang
Munir Ibrahim
Joseph-Mykal Hung Le |
Philip MacNaughton, J.D.
James Monahan
Chau Nguyen
Quang Charlie Nguyen, Ph.D.
Yuki Rogers
Farrukh Shamsi
Zishan Samiuddin, M.D.
The Hon. Allen Owen
Barry Warner
Rob Todd, J.D.
Of Counsel
Patrick Leung, Ph.D.
President Emeritus
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Rogene
Gee Calvert
Chair
John Burruss, M.D.
Theresa Chang, J.D.
Monit Cheung, Ph.D. LCSW
Shern-Min Chow
Laura Hsu, Ph.D.
Daniel Hu, J.D.
Mariam Issa |
Councilmember MJ Khan
Patrick Leung, Ph.D.
Daniel Louie, D.D.S.
Norma Ngo, Psy.D.
Steven Schnee, Ph.D.
Charlene Tsang-Kao, J.D.
Dorothy Wong, Ph.D.
Martha Wong, Ed.D. |
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 Tuan Nguyen, Ph.D.
President
Dr. Tuan D. Nguyen received his doctorate in a social psychology at Purdue University. He is Director of Executive Decision Support for the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Authority of Harris County (http://www.mhmraofharriscounty.org). This agency offers comprehensive mental health and mental retardation services to persons with mental illness and disabilities in Harris County. Previously, he was Director of Research, Evaluation, and Planning at the same agency for six years. From 1975 through 1999, he directed information system, program evaluation, and strategic planning activities for county-level mental health, mental retardation, substance abuse, and forensic services in Houston and San Francisco.
Dr. Nguyen has published, written, and lectured about behavioral health program evaluation and services research. He has also served on numerous review committees, advisory councils, and governing boards for federal, state, and local governments as well as for not-for-profit organizations to assist them with grant review, policy planning, and service program development in the areas of behavioral health and cultural competence. He was a Mental Health Block Grant monitor for SAMHSA for five years. He teaches and supervises doctoral and master’s level students. He has held teaching positions at the University of California, San Francisco; University of California, Berkeley; the California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley; the School of Public Health, the University of Texas Medical Center—Houston; and the American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Houston, Texas.
He has been and is active in advocating for and developing and improving mental health services for Asian Americans. He played a crucial role in establishing an Indochinese Mental Health Training Program in California immediately after the refugees arrived from Indochina in 1975. He was a founding member and is currently the President of the Board of Directors of the Asian American Family Services agency. Dr. Nguyen also presents and lectures at conferences on multicultural mental health issues.
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 Allen
Owen
Chair
of the Business Advisory Council
A
dedicated leader, a long term resident of Missouri city,
Allen Owen is certainly no stranger to the growth and the
development of AAFS, having seen it all from the perspective
of the Mayor of Missouri City, a business leader, past-president of the Board and the chair of the Business Advisory Council of AAFS.
Mayor
Allen Owen is Missouri City’s tenth mayor since the City’s
incorporation back in 1956. Mayor Owen’s profile shows his
family’s long term residence of over 30 years in this community…a
place he calls home. This is where Mayor Owen continues
to dedicate much of his time and expertise towards the development
of a community he and his wife of 39 years, Jane, reared
their three children. Before his mayoral office, whose tenure
began in 1994, Mayor Owen served as a Planning and Zoning
Commissioner for five years and later as a Council Member
for eight years having also served as Mayor Pro Tem.
From
the beginning of Mayor Owen’s association with Missouri
City, he has been highly visible in a growing community
he shares with residents whose population numbers an estimated
65,000. Since then, Mayor Owen has continued working towards
building a strong economy evidenced by attracting quality
residential and commercial development to the area. The
leader of a visionary community, Mayor Owen serves as a
Market Area District Manager for Wells Fargo Bank of Texas
and spends a great deal of his time with many of the residents
on a daily basis. His community involvement includes tireless
volunteer hours with the YMCA, United Way, March of Dimes
and many other organizations. He serves on the Fort Bend
Chamber of Commerce, Fort Bend Womens Center, Fort Bend
Literacy Council, Fort Bend Fair Association and holds a
Vice-Chairman post on the Fort Bend Community Justice Council.
Mayor Owen is also a Life-Time Vice-President and Director
of the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, Past-President
of the Texas 4H Foundation, and President of the Asian American
Family Services. Mayor Owen graduated from Southern Methodist
University’s Graduate School of Finance and Banking and
from Stephen F. Austin State University.
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