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Dr. Tsu-Yin Wu, Ph.D, RN, of Ypsilanti, Michigan, is an associate professor at the School of Nursing at Eastern Michigan University and the director for the Healthy Asian American Project (HAAP) at the University of Michigan. Since 1996, HAAP has provided comprehensive health services and education on breast, cervical and colorectal cancer for Asian communities in southeastern Michigan. Wu earned her Ph.D from the University of Michigan (UM) in nursing, specializing in health promotion and risk reduction. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship in interdisciplinary women's health at UM. She has more than 10 years of community and research experience in promoting healthy living among Asian Americans. Her recent research projects and interests focus on promoting breast cancer screening (i.e., breast self-exam, clinical breast exam and mammography) among Asian American groups including Chinese, Filipino, Asian Indian and Korean through designing and implementing culturally-tailored education interventions for each group. She is the author of several peer-reviewed papers documenting trends in breast cancer screening among Asian American. | 