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UMT President, Yanping Chen, MD, PhD, PMP, Designated as A Fellow of the Project Management Institute
ARLINGTON, Virginia, 25 October 2012
UMT is pleased to announce
that its president, Yanping Chen, MD, PhD, PMP, has been designated by the
Project Management Institute (PMI), the world's largest association for project
managers, as a Fellow of the Institute. The PMI Fellow Award, which is the most
prestigious award that PMI confers on an individual, was presented during PMI’s
annual Awards Ceremony on Saturday, 20 October 2012 at the Vancouver Convention
Centre, Canada.
About the Recipient
Dr. Chen is President
of the University of Management and Technology, an accredited US-based
university that delivers project management degree programs globally, offering
academic scholarships to promote project management higher learning through the
PMI Education Foundation. She served the Project Management Institute as a
volunteer for twenty years. In the early and mid-1990s, she was deputy director
of the Project Management Professional Certification Committee. She was elected
to sit on the PMI global Board of Directors for six years (2005-2010), where she
served as Vice Chair of the Board and headed several Board committees.
A
cardiologist turned program manager, Dr. Chen served as Director of Planning for
the China manned space flight program and was responsible for managing more than
200 projects and programs concurrently during the 1980s. Her group established
the groundwork for China's launch of astronauts into space beginning in 2003.
Dr. Chen was the first Chinese citizen to earn the Project Management
Professional (PMP®) credential. Her volunteer involvement with PMI
began in 1992 when she served the PMI Certification Committee as its Deputy
Director. Throughout the 1990s, she served as PMI's ambassador to promote PMI
and its certification program in China, including the translation of A Guide
to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®
Guide) into Chinese. She was instrumental in facilitating PMI's
collaboration with the Chinese government to launch the PMP exam in China. She
served on the PMI Registered Education Provider (REP) Advisory Group, and was
elected two terms to serve on PMI's Board of Directors, in 2005-2010. While on
the Board, Dr. Chen held positions as PMI Officer and PMI Vice Chair of the
Board of Directors, and chaired two task forces on PMI Core Values and PMI Board
Building.
During her career, Dr. Chen also served as director of four
Chinese professional scientific societies, and received national awards in space
medical research on eight occasions. She served as an International Fellow at
the Smithsonian Institution from 1991-92, and resident & CEO of Yankee
Clipper Group from 1992-98. She has published more than 20 scientific articles
and authored two books, including Principles of Contracting for Project
Management. She earned her PhD in Public Policy and MA in Science and
Technology Policy from George Washington University, and earned the MD in China.
About Project Management Institute (PMI)
PMI is one of
the world's largest not-for-profit membership associations, with more than
650,000 members and credential holders in more than 185 countries. As a global
thought leader and knowledge resource, PMI advances the profession through its
global standards and credentials, collaborative chapters and virtual communities
and academic research.
Dr. Chen (front right) receiving
the PMI Fellow Award at the award ceremony.
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