American Anthropological Association.

Society of Medical Anthropology.

Honor Society of Nursing.

Asian American Pacific Islanders.

National Institute of Drug Abuse.

Transcultural Study of Depression

Health and Spirituality

Cross-cultural problems in Health Care

Cultural and Spiritual Health Care of Homeless People

Health Care of People with Drug Abuse

Geriatric Holistic Health Care

Works of Love, Conference Grant, Metanexus Institute on religion and science and the Institute for research on unlimited love.

NIH FUNDED RESEARCH CONDUCTED (Principal Investigator) - Research Project Depression, Somatization and Korean Elderly Immigrants is being conducted with Grant from National Institute of Aging, NIH from May 1, 1991 to May 14, 1996.

RESEARCH FUNDED AND CONDUCTED (Principal Investigator) - Proposal Depression, Somatization, and Korean Elderly Immigrants was approved by 6 external reviewers in 1988 and funded by the 1991 Faculty Research Grant Support Program. The final report was submitted in Feb. 1992.

Research Service Award, United States Public Health Service 1980-1983

Northeast Asia Council for Asian Studies Association of the Korea Foundation Grant, 1998-1999.

British Council Fellowship 1965-1967

The Importance of Cultural Interpretation of Religion/Spirituality and
Depression in Korean Elderly Immigrant Women Buddhists and Christians. Journal of Best Practices in Health Professions Diversity: Research, Education and Policy. 1 (1): 57-90, Spring 2007.

Indigenous Treatments: Cupping. Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology, Sage Reference Tracking for Publication by Invitation. P. 249. 2006

Pang, K. Health as Spiritual and Virtuous Harmony with Compassion and Vital Energy. Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine. 4(3):137-156, 2004.

Holistic Health with Vital Energy through Altruism on Conference Website and selection of papers in an edited print volume with a university press. In press (May 31-June 5th, Villanova University, Philadelphia, Works of Love Conference2003@metanexus.net)

Pang, K. Virtuous Transcendence: Holistic Self-Cultivation and Self-Healing in Elderly Korean Immigrants. New York. London. Oxford: The Haworth Press 2000.

Pang, K. Korean Elderly Women in America: Everyday Life, Health, and Illness. Immigrant Communities & Ethnic Minorities in the United States and Canada. AMS Studies in Anthropology. New York, NY : AMS Press, Inc. 1991.

Symptom Expression and Somatization among Elderly Korean Immigrants.Journal of Clinical Geropsychology. 6 (3): 199-212, July 2000.

Pang, K. From "bu" to "won": The Influence of the United States in Korea and the Professionalization of Korean Nursing, 1945-1948. Journal of Nursing History. 3(1): 30-51. 1987.

Pang, K. The Practice of Traditional Korean Medicine in Washington, DC. Social Science & Medicine. 28(8): 875-884. 1989.

Pang, K. Hwabyung: The Cultural Construction of Korean Popular Illness Among Korean Elderly Immigrants. International Journal, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. 14(4): 495-512. Dec. 1990

Pang, K. Translated The Clinical Psychometric Tool, Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) from English into Korean and it was copyrighted it. Leonard Derogatis, Clinical Psychometric Research, Inc. 1991

Pang, K. Understanding Depression among Elderly Korean Immigrants through Their Folk Illnesses. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 8(2):209-216. 1994.

Pang, K and M.H. Lee. Prevalence of Depression and Somatic Symptoms among Korean Elderly Immigrants. Yonsei University Medical Journal. 35(2):155-161. 1994. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

Pang, K. Hwabyung: A Community Study of Korean American, by Keh-Ming Lin et al. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 180(6), pp. 386-391. 1992. Reviewed and Abstracted for Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, Vol. 30(1), pp.74-76. 1993.

Pang, K. A Cross-Cultural Understanding of Depression among Korean Elderly Immigrants: Prevalence, Symptoms, and Diagnosis. Clinical Gerontologist. 15(4): 3-20. 1995.

Pang, K. Translation of Geratric Depression Scale into Korean, Clinical Comment Clinical Gerontologist, Vol. 16(1): 74-76. 1995.

Pang, K. Self-Care in Elderly Korean Immigrants. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 11(3): 229-254. 1996.

Pang, K. Symptoms of Depression in Elderly Korean Immigrants: Narration and the Healing Process. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. 22: 93-122. 1998.

Pang, K. Elderly Koreans Responded to a Story of Major Depression. Journal of Clinical Geropsychology. vol. 4 (1):75-87, January 1998.

Pang, K. Causes of Depression related Illnesses in Korean Elderly Immigrants. Clinical Gerontologist. 19(4): 17-33,1998.

Pang, K. Construction of Korean Popular Illnesses: Han, Hwabyung and Shinkyungshayak among Korean Immigrants. Illnesses, Crisis & Loss. 7 (2): 134-160, April 1999.

Pang, K. Dissertation Abstract Everyday Life, Health, and Illness of the Elderly Korean Immigrant Women: Construction of Illness. Catholic University of America, Dissertation Abstracts International. University Microfilms International. 1984.