Dr Fung Hong 馮康醫生 Chief Executive Officer, CUHK Medical Centre
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CUHK MEDICAL ALUMNI ALUMNI EXCEL IN VISUAL ARTS ISSUE 3 • VOL 7 • 2017 CONTENTS 01 MESSAGE 03 • Message by Dr Philip Sin Ngai-chuen (MBChB 1994) FEATURES • Disease Outbreak Ignites Creative Juices in Young 03 Boy, Making Him a Famous Writer Amid Busy Life as a Doctor • Surgeon’s Outlook on Life and Career is Magically 04 “Cartoonized” on Paper • Surgeon Likens Chinese Painting to Performing Minimally Invasive Surgery • Photo-Taking Keeps Busy Doctor Grounded, Calm and Happy CUHK’S PRIDE & JOY • CUHK Medical Centre: Scaling the Heights of Innovative Healthcare EVENT HIGHLIGHTS 09 • CU Medical Alumni Buddy Programme • White Coat Inauguration Ceremony 2017 05 • Dr Lui Che Woo Distinguished Professor Public Lecture • Giant Medic and Surgeon Bears • Summer Clinical Attachment Programme • CUHKMAA Annual General Meeting and Dinner HISTORY OF CUHK FACULTY 13 OF MEDICINE • Introduction of Founding Professor John Vallance-Owen • A Time of Fraternity: Gerald Choa Memorial Lecture cum Dinner NEWS IN BRIEF 14 • Reunion Gathering • Article and Photo Contribution • CUHK Medical Alumni Homecoming Day 2018 STAY CONNECTED 06 • Medical Alumni Contact Update EDITORIAL BOARD HONORARY ADVISORS Professor Francis Chan Ka-leung 陳家亮 (MBChB 1988) Dean, Faculty of Medicine Professor Enders Ng Kwok-wai 吳國偉 (MBChB 1989) Associate Dean (Alumni Affairs), Faculty of Medicine Medical Alumni Affairs CHAIRMAN Integrated Event Management, Faculty and Planning Office, Faculty of Medicine, Dr Byron Chu Tung-hang 朱東恒(MBChB 2004) Room 116, 1/F, Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong MEMBERS Tel: 3943 3336 鄺國雄 (MBChB 1988) Dr Peter Kwong Kwok-hung Email: [email protected] Dr Peter Pang Chi-wang 彭志宏 (MBChB 1994) Dr Ruby Ching Hok-ying 秦學瑩 (MBChB 1995) Dr Jennifer Mou Wai-cheung 繆蔚章 (MBChB 2003) The Chinese University of Hong Kong Dr Xina Lo 羅秀蘭 (MBChB 2005) Medical Alumni Association Dr Heyson Chan Chi-hey 陳智曦 (MBChB 2007) Dr Eric Cheung Yau-fung 張又丰 (MBChB 2009) Email: [email protected] MESSAGE 02 WELCOME MESSAGE “Buddies should become pillars of guidance for students embarking on their career path.” - Dr Philip Sin Ngai-chuen (冼藝泉醫生, MBChB 1994) Chief Manager (Patient Safety & Risk Management), Hospital Authority new academic year has dawned our alumni thriving well and taking frequently so as to build up bonds. upon us and I am sure we are up key positions in hospitals and A The ultimate goal of the Buddy all raring to go to make this year in other fields. I am proud of them. Programme is to help and give advice another successful one…as always! However, their successes were to students and be there for them I would like to write about the CU earned and not given. when most needed. Medical Alumni Buddy Programme. Buddies having passion and Buddies should become pillars of First of all, let me say that it is a experience will certainly help guidance for students embarking great honour and pleasure to be a our medical students tackle any on their career path. As the famous buddy for medical students. challenges that lay ahead. We need American poet, Robert Frost (1874-1963) once wrote: “I am not Being a buddy is not a one-way more buddies to offer inspiration and a teacher, but an awakener.” And street. On the one hand, I am advice to our younger generation I believe we, as buddies, should giving guidance and advice to in order to strengthen the bonds “awaken” the potential in our the freshmen and on the other, I among ourselves and foster solidarity undergraduates. am learning new ideas from them with our Faculty. as well as from my fellow alumni How do we know if our Buddy Before I sign off, let me remind buddies - this is really rejuvenating Programme is being successfully everyone…the Medical Alumni for both my heart and soul. It is Homecoming Day will be held on implemented or not? To me, indeed a win-win situation. 27 January 2018, and the theme is engagement is all about proximity. ‘Unity •Heritage’. Having graduated from CUHK more Buddies need to approach their than two decades ago, I witnessed assigned students, or mentees, more See you all there! FEATURES 03 Just when you thought that Science and Visual Arts don’t really mix…well, these doctors will prove you wrong…big time! DISEASE OUTBREAK IGNITES CREATIVE JUICES IN YOUNG BOY, MAKING HIM A FAMOUS WRITER AMID BUSY LIFE AS A DOCTOR ”Whenever I Iook back on my experiences, I ask myself…how can I do better the next time.” - Dr Ray Leung Tsz-hang (梁子恒醫生, MBChB 2011) When he started medical school with Despite changing the identity of The Chinese University of Hong Kong patients he writes about, some still in 2006, he penned about life as a recognise themselves in the narrative. student on campus. His popularity as a “But they are not angry,” he says. blogger began to grow. “Instead, they will thank me.” His writing continued through his Dr Leung is now quite the celebrity - hen the Sars outbreak struck internships at Prince of Wales Hospital many patients as well as his colleagues WHong Kong in 2003, a 16-year-old and Queen Elizabeth Hospital. now know who Dr Ray is. But fame hasn't gone to his head. “Writing helps me boy stayed at home and waited with It was around 2011 when Ming Pao improve myself and my hospital bated breath, fearing that at anytime publishers approached him work. Whenever I Iook back on soon, the police would come knocking about printing his little nuggets my experiences, I ask myself… on his door to say, “You are all now of life as a medical student and how can I do better the next placed under quarantine. You can’t go an intern. Dr Leung recalls the time.” anywhere.” time when he saw his first book. He had heard that residents of Amoy “I felt so proud, like a parent As a doctor at one of the busiest Gardens were being quarantined as seeing his newborn baby.” public hospitals in Hong Kong, how does he find many Sars cases had been reported By the time he joined QE’s time to write…”Oh, on there. “I was afraid that if I died of the Accident and Emergency Department my smartphone when I disease, I would have left nothing in as a full-time doctor, Xanga had closed am travelling on the bus this world,” Dr Ray Leung recalls. “I felt down. So he turned to Facebook, to work or while lying in I had to write down something.” and under the pen name of Dr bed.” So he started jotting down his fears Ray, he began writing about his and feelings onto pieces of paper, thus experiences as a doctor - but in a CUHK’s Faculty of developing his writing skills. Since then, semi-fictional way. They spread fast Medicine holds a special place in his heart. “The spaciousness and he has published seven books. “Sars and became extremely popular with the younger set. environment of the campus make it very made me a writer,” Dr Leung says. conducive to learning. The lecturers are Dr Leung draws his inspiration for his After his diary on Sars, he began writing very nice and the bond with classmates stories from everyday interactions about his time in school. “I shared my and staff is very strong.” with his patients and their relatives. “I experiences about life, about relationships would add a little bit of educational Asked if perhaps one day he would and other very ordinary stuff.” value in my stories too, explaining to hang up his stethoscope for a pen, he His writings appeared in Xanga, a popular the readers what the disease is and laughs: “Definitely not…then where social networking website at the time. how to manage it." will I get my story ideas from?” FEATURES SURGEON’S OUTLOOK ON LIFE AND CAREER IS MAGICALLY “CARTOONIZED" ON PAPER ”I like to draw to depict my daily life and what happens in hospital.” - Dr Lucci Lugee Liyeung (李揚立之醫生, MBChB 2011) “I have always been drawing as far as I can remember,” Dr Liyeung says. Whenever she came across a blank canvas like shoeboxes or walls, she would start scribbling. That drove her mother up the wall, literally speaking. “I got told off by my mum and then, she would get me sketch a cheetah orphan, named Duma. “I books after sketch books.” befriended Duma and there was this She started with drawing cats and wild very strong connection between us. I felt animals. Eventually large cats, like the I needed to do a little something to help cheetah, became her most favourite conserve cheetahs and that inspired me animal in the world. And she attributes to come up with a cheetah character.” that to a little stuffed cheetah toy she Dumo was thus born and is now he was only six years old when was given when she was a toddler. The the mascot for an international she was tasked to come up with a toy, which she named “Cheeta-nini”, S charitable organisation, drawing for a dairy milk advertisement in followed her everywhere. Cheetah Conservation Fund. Hong Kong. Anyone being given a job Growing up, she “published” her own like that would have felt the pressure - Dr Liyeung says sketching helps weekly comic strips - drawn on A4 but not so this little girl. She took it in her her cope with stress as well as paper - which proved very popular stride like a pro and voilà…a picture of with examinations.