Damjan DeNoble（杜德平）

Damjan co-founded Asia Healthcare Blog with James Flanagan, in 2009. He is currently a  dual-degree candidate, at the University of Michigan Law School. He is working towards academic-level fluency in reading, writing and speaking Mandarin. Before graduate school he lived and worked in China for two and a half years. He has clerked at the offices of Harris & Moure, a leading boutique international law firm, widely admired for its China Law Blog, and worked in the University of Michigan Transactions Clinic, where he represented technology clients in a series of multinational transactions. He graduated from Duke University in 2007, with a B.A. in Public Policy, concentration in health policy, and is an alumnus of the Middlebury College Chinese Language School.

Joe Christian, JD

Joe Christian has been a practicing lawyer for over thirty years. The primary focus of his practice has been real estate, representing institutional investors and developers in large commercial transactions across the U.S. and in Asia. From mid-2008 until the end of 2011, he was a partner in DLA Piper, a global law firm. He was located in the firm’s Hong Kong office, where he co-headed DLA’s Asia real estate group. He has many years of experience in senior housing in the U.S., having represented institutional investors in the sector since 2000. In addition, while based in Hong Kong, beginning in 2009, he represented several U.S.-based operators and investors, as well as Chinese developers and insurance companies, in their exploration of the senior housing market in China. In January of this year, he began a fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Asia Center, where he is researching and writing on the senior housing industry in China, an industry in which he is recognized as a leading expert. A speaker and writer on U.S. and Asian real estate issues, Mr. Christian is an instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Executive Education program. In the U.S., Mr. Christian is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate. While in Hong Kong, he was a member of the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association; the Asian Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles; the Urban Land Institute – Asia Pacific, where he served on the Executive Committee; and the American Chamber of Commerce, where he served on the Real Estate Committee.

James Flanagan

After a few years of living in Singapore, James headed to Montreal to study at McGill where he received a B.Com in 2006. He jumped on the first plane back to Asia and landed in Beijing. After trying his hands at a couple of different projects, he focused on developing a consulting firm focusing on Asian IT/Biotech firms. Currently, James Flanagan is on the board of The Beijing Rotaract Club, and spends most of his time working on TedxBeijing 2012 with his laptop, in Beijing, PRC. He and Damjan Denoble founded Asia Healthcare Blog, in 2009.

Bradley Hoathe

Bradley is a writer for Asia Healthcare Blog. He is currently a dual-degree MHSA/MA student, studying Health Management & Policy and Chinese Studies, at the University of Michigan. He has spent two years living in China, and has worked with a Project HOPE-Shanghai Children’s Medical Center collaborative initiative. He recently completed an administrative internship with Shanghai Landseed International Hospital. The Taiwanese hospital is the first fully foreign-owned and invested private hospital in mainland China. Bradley graduated from the University of Michigan, in 2009, with a BSE in Industrial Engineering.

Lua Wilkinson, MA, RD

Lua is currently the Neonatal Nutritionist at New York Presbyterian’s Weill Cornell Medical College. She has worked as a pediatric dietitian for over six years, with experience in pediatric cardiology, intensive care, and young infant feeding practices. She was a Fulbright Fellow at Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, studying infant and young child feeding practices among migrant women. She holds Bachelors degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Dietetics, and a Masters in Medical Anthropology. You can visit her at her blog, The China Nutrition Project.