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Vanessa Bui is the Vice President of External Affairs of the Vietnamese Culture and Science Association (VCSA). In this capacity, she is charged with coordinating many of the marketing and public relation activities within the non-profit organization to increase opportunities for young Vietnamese-American professionals. Since her involvement with VCSA in 1999, she has played an instrumental role in initiating, planning, marketing, and delivering many successful educational programs such as the Youth Excellence Recognition Program for Vietnamese-American high school students and the National Youth Leadership Development Camp "Len Duong." These two major milestones became VCSA's annual events since 1997 and 1998, respectively. In addition, she has organized numerous Drug Awareness seminars to increase health and educational awareness and reduce substance abuse and gang violence within the Vietnamese-American community. With a commitment to public service, Ms. Bui is also a member of the VCSA Fundraising Team. The team dedicates its effort to find sponsorship to support many of the organization's continuous projects such as the Vietnamese language and literature classes, tutorial sessions, computer classes, and health seminars. She is also a member of Sunflower Mission, a non-profit organization that helps to improve the people of Vietnam mainly through education assistance. Another area that she actively supports is medical missions that provide reconstruction surgery services to children in medically underserved countries like Vietnam, Romania, Peru, and the Philippines. Ms. Bui received her education at University of Houston-College of Pharmacy and graduated in December 1995 with a B.S. in Pharmacy. She is currently working as a research pharmacist at Texas Children's Hospital. Her functions there are to coordinate and monitor investigational drug treatment studies with the physicians, study personnel, study monitor, and the dispensing pharmacy. She maintains study agents accountability, including daily and monthly audits. Her responsibility is also to ensure appropriate storage of used and unused study agents/supplies in accordance with regulatory and legal requirements. Ms. Bui came to the Unites States in 1975, at the age of 4, as
a refugee from Vietnam. She currently resides in Houston, TX with
her husband and son.
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