President

Dr. Huang is a board-certified family medicine physician, currently practicing in Washington DC. As a child of deaf parents, he witnessed firsthand the communication challenges and opportunities within healthcare of working with deaf patients.  He works at Unity Health Care, where he started the CODA Clinic – Comprehensive Medical Care for Deaf Adults and Children with the goal of providing high quality medical services to the deaf community and their family members.

He obtained dual degrees in biology and history at Villanova University. Before completing his medical degree from the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, he volunteered with AmeriCorps in Los Angeles. After medical school, he trained at Montefiore Medical Center in the Family and Social Medicine Residency program, as well as served as chief resident.

His professional passions include immigrant health, LGBTQIA+ healthcare, healthcare for the homeless, teaching medical students and residents, and nutrition and health. He lives with his husband, son, and dog, Heathrow. During his spare time, he enjoys outdoor activities, including running, cycling, and hiking. He has bilateral hearing loss and uses hearing aids.

Vice President

Alok Doshi, with a career spanning 30 years, is an entrepreneur these days developing ideas for health and other areas.  He recently served as a Strategy Lead for DeafHealth under the Communication Services for the Deaf (CSD) and before that, a product manager for their ASL Now division, promoting direct video communications.  His past roles included serving as a Senior Program Manager, leading teams of strategists and designers on customer-focused consulting projects for frog Design, part of Capgemini, and product management for Capital One. 

However, his longest stint was 10 years in the Department of Health & Human Services as a product and health policy owner on the Healthcare.gov initiative (Obamacare), program evaluations on Health Information Technology/Electronic Medical Records, marketing for small biotechs at NIH, and clinical trials information systems at the FDA. 

He has a Master’s in Design Health from the University of Texas at Austin, an MBA from the University of Maryland, and a Bachelor’s degree from Rochester Institute of Technology. 

He is often called a "Walking Encyclopedia of Useless Facts" by his friends due to his voracious reading, consumption of pop culture and sports, as well as politics.  He also enjoys walking. spending time with friends at breweries, and taking great trips - most recently to New Zealand.

Treasurer

Tyler M. Pugeda is a Deaf medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he is a Leaders of Tomorrow Scholar and uses sign language interpreters. As Treasurer of AMPHL, he shares his journey to show that a medical career is navigable as a Deaf person. A former Fulbright Scholar, he has presented internationally on his visual storytelling about accent bias, mind-brain philosophy, Alzheimer's disease research, and lived experiences at conferences, universities, and leadership forums across North America, Europe, and Asia. Across these works, he is drawn to how humans communicate, understand one another, and misunderstand—the same question that drives his work on surgical communication.

At UCLA, Tyler's work centers on preventing miscommunication during surgery. He designs simulation-based studies on how operating room teams communicate during hemorrhage and other time-sensitive emergencies, testing multimodal strategies, including tactile communication, to improve coordination and patient safety. Building on this research, he is conceptualizing medical technology to keep surgical teams coordinated during crises. He has engineered hemorrhage simulation models from low-cost materials so that students and medical residents anywhere can practice, and contributed to heart preservation and transplantation research at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Outside medicine, Tyler enjoys flying with his pilot's license, growing his balcony garden bed, going to farmers' markets, and beach running. He welcomes connections with anyone, including educators, interpreters, and fellow medical professionals and students with hearing loss. Reach him at tyler.pugeda@amphl.org

Secretary

Nicole is a registered nurse residing in Winchendon, MA She was raised in Massachusetts before moving to Rochester for college at the University of Rochester where she studied American Sign Language and Biology. She then completed an accelerated second-degree program at University of Rochester to earn her BSN and become a registered nurse. She worked for several years at Golisano Children’s Hospital in various roles including Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Infusions, and Pediatric Endocrinology.

Nicole now works as a middle school nurse at Murdock Middle School in Winchendon, MA. She enjoys incorporating healthy lifestyle education with medicine to help patients achieve their best health outcomes. She also works to educate fellow healthcare providers and interpreters on Deaf culture, child development, and social determinants of health. She enjoys providing both formal and informal mentorship to aspiring Deaf/Hard of Hearing nurses. 

Nicole became Deaf during college and now uses a combination of ASL, cochlear implants, and her wonderful service dog, Freya, to ensure complete access to the world around her. She loves experiencing everything life has to offer, particularly outdoorsy activities such as rock climbing, running, and camping. During the summer, she serves as a camp nurse at Camp Walt Whitman in the beautiful White Mountains of NH.

This is Nicole’s second term on the AMPHL board of directors and first term as secretary. She is excited to help this fantastic organization grow.