Equipped for Success – Faculty Core Facility

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Feature Equipped for Success – Faculty Core Facility

Spotlight Faculty Graduation and Prize Presentation Ceremony 2010 Contents Volume 15 • Issue 3 • January 2011 8

here are so many ‘must read’ articles in this issue that if TFromyou decide the to read onlyEditor three articles from this issue go no further with the Editor’s message.

The Dean’s Message not only highlights pivotal developments in teaching and research over the past year, but also 4 gives a thought provoking discourse on societal values, professionalism, and medical education. Also in this issue, it is 10 our honour to include the speech by Professor Sir David Todd at the Faculty Graduation and Prize Presentation Ceremony 2010. The beginning of a new year proves most fitting for both articles, which offer much wisdom and food for thought.

When the Editorial Board decided to report on the recently established Faculty Core Facility for research, we found ourselves in a dilemma. On the one hand, we wanted to let readers know about recent developments in the Faculty 15 and, as medical research is one of our central missions, such a subject seemed highly relevant. On the other hand, we did not want readers to be faced with an academic monograph. Thanks to Professor YL Lau, Professor George Tsao, and the Dean’s message 1 student editorial board members who interviewed both professors about the Facility, we have ended up with a Feature THE FACULTY IN 2010 3 article that is interesting and accessible to all. The colourful Feature pictures, which show photomicrographs taken with the high- tech imaging facility, are also truly mesmerising. Equipped for Success 4 After incubating for a hundred years, the Kick-off Ceremony for Education matters 7 HKU’s Centenary Celebrations on January 9, 2011, was indeed Spotlight more important than other festivities in recent months such Faculty Graduation and Prize Presentation as Christmas or New Year which come on an annual basis. The picture below was taken on that unusually warm and sunny Ceremony 2010 8 day in what has proved overall to be a very cold month.

Inside the faculty 10 I must thank you if you have gone this far, and it is comforting to know that I have successfully captured your attention. Alumni news 15 Lastly, on behalf of the Editorial Board, we would like to thank Next generation 17 our readers for their continued support over the years, and to wish you a Happy Chinese New Year! Congratulations & Media highlights 19 Professor Daniel Chan People & Donations 21 Editor-in-Chief Forthcoming events 22

Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief Student Representatives Professor Daniel TM Chan（陳德茂） Mr Adrian Fung（馮智衡）, MBBS III Members Miss Joyce Lai（黎可恩）, MBBS III Professor Godfrey CF Chan（陳志峰） Publishing Editors Li Ka Shing Faculty of MedicINE Professor Sophia SC Chan（陳肇始） Ms Yvonne Li（李琬雯） Dr LK Chan（陳立基） Ms Celia Ip（葉敏漩） 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Professor NK Leung（梁乃江） Graphic Design Tel: 2819 9175 Professor CM Lo（盧寵茂） Visionguard Professor Louis CK Low（盧忠啟） Fax: 2974 0678 Dr John M Nicholls（黎國思） Email: [email protected] Professor NG Patil（彭達） Website: www.hku.hk/facmed Dr MH Sham（岑美霞） Dr Z Zhang（張樟進） Dean’s Message From the Editor

Gaudeamus Igitur (Therefore let us rejoice)1 In making he Latin words are from the first line of a traditional verse which was sung to mark the a new beginning, significance and the spirit of special academic occasions. In Europe, the words and the Ttune constitute the hallmark of celebration of graduation of university students as they we are compelled symbolically start a new beginning. Johannes Brahms incorporated this song into the climatic to rediscover and finale segment of his “Academic Festival Overture”. We now have a new cohort of graduates, a new issue of the Faculty Newsletter, a new reinvent ourselves curriculum reform evolving, and a new year beginning. The University of Hong Kong kick- started her centenary celebrations and China looks back 100 years and remembers her new and find an beginning.2 This also affords a chance for us to reflect on the past year and look forward to the opportunity to next one. It is not how we measure Time, but how we live it that is important. You can mark time using the inexpensive worn-out watch on my wrist or a diamond-studded one on others’, get things done using the shadow that moves across the face of a sundial, grains of sand slipping through your fingers like an hour glass, or an electronic digital display to the nearest millionth of a second – even better. but it is what you remember and how you remember the contents within the passage of time that is ultimately relevant. And in the year past, we have lived the precious moments well.

For those with an analytical mind, there is the “fact sheet” in this issue which chronicles our achievements, our growth and the momentum we are generating. On the heels of launching the School of Public Health and the School of Nursing, we now have a new Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, and a new Pharmacy Division in the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy. Following the restructuring of our Research Centres and a programme in Structural Biology, we have created Faculty Core Facilities, new programmes in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine; and gained additional research recognition in Area of Excellence and State Key Laboratory awards. To build capacity in academic excellence, we have introduced schemes to recruit, nurture and retain talents with a structured pathway of support in the postgraduate training of academic medicine.

But we cannot and must not bask in complacency while pondering the unfolding of the New Year. Last year’s words belong to last year’s language and the next year’s words await another voice. In making a new beginning, we are compelled to rediscover and reinvent ourselves and find an opportunity to get things done even better. The purpose of a New Year is not that one should have another 365 calendar days, but that we have a new soul.

If this is a time for us to reiterate the affirmation of our commitment to the healthcare profession and our students, then what might it be? We will foster creative thinking in research and add vigor in the pursuit and quest for truth. We must live and lead by example. To do so, we must be honest with ourselves and not trade the noble principles of our profession with conventional parameters of success, most visibly dollars-and-cents and political status. Dr Tertius Lydgate’s3 rise to success as he generated increasing income, social and political status was commensurate with his downfall in morals and ethics. This is an indictment to the prevalent professional behaviour in Hong Kong. His sad and yet real downward spiral path was a result of small, imperceptible, day-to-day compromises; rationalisation and participation

Dean’s Message • Medical Faculty News 1 Dean’s Message

in a hypocrisy that tempts and confronts us and our young all the time. The entire healthcare community is vulnerable to these pressures and we are mirror images of one another and role models to future generations. We must move forward and at the same time be rid of the greed, the malevolent destructive competitiveness, the spite and meanness that have brewed in our profession. Beyond any lectures and seminars, powerpoint and web-based materials, our behaviour and ours alone is the most powerful testimony to the next generations of how noble our profession should be and can be.

It is only by understanding the past that we can anticipate the future; doing it right in ourselves that we can do good to others; by casting the vision wide and far that we can see the forest, the hills and valleys and not just a single tree. It is then that we will understand why scholarship can sublimate over materialistic things; humanistic qualities are more valuable assets than technical information and devices; being well grounded in sound fundamentals Our behaviour and common sense are just as important as the training to be a super-specialist. In this date and age when hospitals are clambering to an “arms race” to outfit with the latest hardware of and ours alone healthcare delivery, our challenge is how to restore and upgrade the software of our mind. The is the most young must learn the meaning of human existence through us. They will need to look smart and feel ignorant, like us. They will learn that the laboratory results, the CT and MRI scans, powerful are but numbers and images documenting what are going on with our patients and do not control or dictate what become of them. They will find out that the placebo will work and testimony to the they will think they know why. The placebo will have side effects and they will know that they do not know why. They will realise that the best hospital is a home of joy, even if it has rooms next generations of pain and loss and exits of misunderstanding. They will see both health and disease dance like changing partners. Computers will churn out mountains of data and they will understand of how noble our how the trivial will trap and the important can escape them. They will find out at the final hour when Committees will not be able to resolve the question, then the art of Medicine - the profession should understanding of the human being and humanity - will be called to make the judgment. They will be proud to find out what they believe in, and love and care for are the reasons why the be and can be. fever will drop, the tented T wave will calm down to its rightful peak, and the osteoblasts will lay down new bone at right angles to the line of stress. This is the reason why while pain may be inevitable, suffering is always optional. And why eyelids will flutter and speech will return out of a coma, and why there will be days of joy and feelings of elation. They will walk triumphantly along the ancient hallways of the good old Queen Mary Hospital and, like you and I, whisper to our soul and shout Yes to the world and all the meandering corners down Sassoon Road, even when no one is listening. Life is short4 and the Art is long.5 The heart will lead and the head will explain and what matters finally is how the human spirit is spent. This is a time of joy. This is a time of pride. This is the beginning. Therefore, let us rejoice. Gaudeamus Igitur. Hop Hop Hooray.6

Professor SP Lee Dean of Medicine

Footnotes 1. Here I borrow the title and many words from the Commencement speech given by Professor John Stone at Emory University School of Medicine in July 1982. Professor Sir David Todd addressed the congregation of our Medical Faculty in January 2011. The words of these two men resonated in my head, and inspired me to write this message. 2. The University of Hong Kong was officially incorporated by ordinance in 1911 (after the College of Medicine in 1887). The Xinhai Revolution（辛亥革命）took place in Wuchang on October 10, 1911. The movement to overturn the Qing Dynasty was led by Dr Sun Yat-sen, one of the first graduates of our Medical Faculty. 3. In: Middlemarch by George Eliot 1872. 4. “Life is short.” Ugo Benzi (Hugo Senensis). Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, circa 1428. The analysis concluded that however long or short human life might be – it is never long enough to discover and master the whole of Medicine. 5. “……the Art is long” Hippocrates, in Omnia Opera Hippocratis circa 460BCE. The “Art” (techne) refers to the combination of knowledge in science and philosophy, power of observation, logical reasoning and experience. 6. Not a misprint. This is Year of the Rabbit.

2 Medical Faculty News • Dean’s Message The Faculty in 2010 Number of Staff Number of Students Professoriate: 249 Postgraduate: 1,164 Honorary academic 1,224 Undergraduate: 1,915

The Undergraduate Programmes Programme (full-time) Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Total Bachelor of Medicine and Faculty 170 163 133 120 125 711 Bachelor of Surgery Bachelor of Nursing 189 184 178 162 -- 713 in 2010 Bachelor of Chinese Medicine 24 15 23 19 16 97 Bachelor of Pharmacy 25 26 N/A N/A N/A 51

Through the 2010 Early Admissions Scheme for outstanding Form Six students, our Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) programme admitted six students with 10As, 25 students with 9As and 23 students with 8As in HKCEE. Students with excellent HKAL results were also admitted to the MBBS through the JUPAS scheme, the average score was 2As and 1B.

The admission result for the Bachelor of Pharmacy programme was also highly satisfactory. The average score of students admitted through the JUPAS scheme was 2As and 1B. The average score of JUPAS students admitted to our Bachelor of Nursing programme was the highest among similar programmes in Hong Kong. Postgraduate Education The Faculty currently offers 17 taught postgraduate programmes.

The Faculty successfully admitted 187 Research Postgraduate (RPg) students in 2010-11. Three of our new PhD intake have been awarded Hong Kong PhD Fellowships by the Research Grants Council (RGC) and 10 have been awarded University Postgraduate Fellowships. One PhD student won the Li Ka Shing Prize. One PhD and two MPhil students received Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student Awards, and one student was awarded a Croucher Foundation Scholarship to undertake the combined MBBS/ PhD programme.

Ten RPg students gained admittance to exchanges at renowned universities overseas, including Imperial College, UK and Johns Hopkins University, USA, and about HK$1 million was allocated to support the exchange students and their supervisors. Research Grants Grant Number of amount Projects (HK$)(million) RGC General Research Fund 61 62.1 RGC Collaborative Research Fund 2 12.61 UGC Area of Excellence – Development Genomics & 1 35.62 Skeletal Research (sustained funding) National Natural Science Foundation of China/ RGC Joint Research Scheme 3 2.06 Research Fund for the Control of Infectious Diseases 12 9.46 Health and Health Services Research Fund 10 5.83 SK Yee Medical Foundation Grants 13 6.03

Research grants awarded to Faculty members totalled over HK$140 million. Research Output The Faculty’s refereed research output saw 3,154 items produced in 2009-10, accounting for 37% of the University’s total of 8,501 refereed items. Output included important publications in Science and Nature Biotechnology. According to ISI Essential Science Indicators, Faculty members published 147 Highly Cited Papers, which accounted for 49% of the 301 papers from HKU. Public Education Projects Number Public lectures/ Symposia/ Forums 41 Media interviews & press conferences 47 Health programmes on television and radio 59 Regular newspaper columns 116 Media coverage generated 1,450 (as of December 2010)

The Faculty in 2010 • Medical Faculty News 3 Feature Equipped for Success The launch of the Faculty Core Facility in November 2010 marked an exciting advance for biomedicine research at HKU with its centralised provision of state-of-the-art high-resolution imaging and high throughput flow cytometry. Professor YL Lau（劉宇隆）, the Faculty’s Associate Dean (Research) and Chairman of the Facility’s Management Committee, and Professor George Tsao（曹世華）, Director of the Facility, talk to Medical Faculty News about the significant impact of the move.

he setting-up of the Faculty Core Facility (FCF) has been a long-held dream of Professor YL Lau, who now chairs the T Management Committee tasked with overseeing the Facility. Before the Facility came into operation, these research equipment was managed by and housed in individual departments or research centres with different levels of accessibility. The procedures to book the equipment were variable and complicated, and the charges were relatively expensive. Now the FCF can avoid these problems by making its high-end, high- demand equipment accessible to all researchers and research students within the Medical Faculty. Members of other faculties or other institutions also will be able to use these equipment, thereby promoting multi-disciplinary and cross-departmental collaboration.

Hardware and Software Boost “If pieces of equipment had souls,” Professor Lau said, “we would be making them happy by putting them to good use, lowering the amount of time they were idle, and enabling them to live a long and fulfilled life. With the sharing of resources, we avoid unnecessary duplication, creating greater efficiency and more space for research.”

In addition to hardware, the Facility also provides advanced software for imaging and flow cytometry for data analysis, further assisting researchers in their research studies. Professor If pieces of George Tsao, Director of the Facility, said, “We aim to continuously review, expand and advance our capabilities to serve the needs of researchers.” equipment had souls, we would be making them happy by putting them to good use, lowering the amount of time they were idle, and enabling them to live a long and fulfilled life.

4 Medical Faculty News • Feature Excellence in Training and Research To enable researchers to benefit fully, the FCF provides training courses and workshops to all faculty members, postgraduate students and potential users, ranging from an intensive one to half-day courses to a comprehensive week-long programme. Such training equips users with information on the most up-to-date technology and the applications in advanced imaging and flow cytometry. A Laboratory Manager and a Technical Officer are also on board to provide expertise and support.

At the same time, the Facility will continue to introduce and explore innovative and advanced applications in imaging and flow cytometry. Professor Tsao explained, “The FCF will regularly invite experts from international research institutes to share their experience. This will certainly push the standard of technology to higher levels as well as broaden researchers’ perspectives of biomedical research.”

In terms of boosting research excellence, the centralised nature of the FCF allows it to offer technology platforms which may previously have been out of the reach of individual departments on cost grounds. One example is advanced flow cytometry technology. The high performance cell sorter and analyser will be too costly for a single department to acquire and maintain on its own. However, it is an essential piece of equipment for isolation of stem cells and genetically modified cells and has the capacity to analyse as many as 70,000 events in a second with laser activatable probes. Support from the University Development Fund and Faculty Development Fund has made the advanced technology platform available and affordable to all researchers within and outside the We aim to Faculty. emphasise Furthermore, the FCF creates training and an opportunity for members from different disciplines to meet and education, promote generate ideas together. “A platform such as the FCF is where a meeting greater research of minds occurs. The most brilliant collaborations, ideas are often cultivated this way,” explained Professor Lau. Professor enhance diversity Tsao also hopes that the FCF will promote collaboration between in research projects researchers both inside and outside and offer more the Faculty. opportunities for possible research discoveries. Exhilarating Outlook Looking towards future plans for the FCF, Professor Tsao said, “With advanced instruments, experienced technicians and innovative projects, we hope that HKU’s research projects that involve imaging and cell sorting technology can scale new heights.” The FCF also intends to make the Medical Faculty a regional training centre for high resolution imaging in Asia. “We want to go beyond being a service provider. We aim to emphasise training and education, promote greater research collaborations, enhance diversity in research projects and offer more opportunities for possible research discoveries.” Professor Tsao wants to see the FCF as a means to provide a solid foundation for future funding applications.

The Faculty Core Facility is located at L6-11 Laboratory Block, 21 Sassoon Road. For more information, please visit www.med.hku.hk/corefac.

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Researchers Share Their Thoughts

he Faculty Core Facility (FCF) has opened up a tremendous avenue for research groups like ours who are interested in studying “Tleukaemia and stem cell biology. For example, Fluorescent Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) and live-cell imaging equipment have allowed the isolation of a rare population of stem cells in bone marrow and the direct visualisation of fluorescent images of blood stem cells in zebrafish embryos. As a result, we have been able to initiate more collaborative projects in stem cell biology. The FCF has become an integral part of our research strategy and has enabled us to generate important data which could not be accomplished previously.”

Dr Anskar Leung（梁如鴻） Clinical Associate Professor Department of Medicine

merging infectious diseases have become a global issue of increasing importance, especially since the emergence of SARS, avian H5N1 and the “E 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus. It may be difficult to predict the nature, type and extent of newly emerging viral infectious diseases. Nevertheless, it is recognised that there are different stages leading to successful human-to-human transmission for an emergent virus crossing the species barrier. The FCF and its imaging systems have provided a unique opportunity for studying the mechanism for host range restriction of cross-species transmission of emerging pathogens and the likelihood of a zoonotic and epizootic infectious agent progressing from one stage to another during host adaptation.”

Dr Honglin Chen（陳鴻霖） Associate Professor State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases Department of Microbiology

he FCF’s availability to scientists outside the Medical Faculty will certainly enhance inter-departmental and inter-faculty “Tresearch. My laboratory has made use of the FCF’s confocal microscopy facility in the past and we look forward to further use of this and other FCF facilities in collaboration with colleagues there in the near future.”

Professor Chye Mee Len（蔡美蓮） Professor School of Biological Sciences

6 Medical Faculty News • Feature Education Matters

Teacher training: THE ROAD TO EXCELLENCE

one-day Professional Development Programme on Medical The highlight of the training Education was successfully held on October 9, 2010 as was the PBL tutoring part of the Faculty’s in-house training programme. The workshop. To experience event is organised on an annual basis by the Institute of Medical PBL first hand, participants and Health Sciences Education (IMHSE) to nurture high-quality were divided into groups, teachers. each facilitated by an IMHSE member. They then worked through a PBL case with the facilitator. After completion of the one-day programme, participants also sat in actual PBL sessions and discussed with experienced trainers the techniques for facilitating PBL. The Institute hopes that the workshop will help new staff members make an effective start in their academic career.

Since January 2010, IMHSE also offers a Certificate in Medical and Health Sciences Education course. The online learning programme for healthcare professionals offers modules on teaching skills, assessment, curriculum planning, quality assurance, and medical This year’s participants included teachers who have joined education scholarship. The course has already attracted outside the Faculty within the last two years as well as staff members participants from both local and overseas institutions. More who wanted to acquire more insight into teaching excellence. information about the programme is available at www.hku.hk/ Those attending received an in-depth orientation to the MBBS facmed/imhse/cimhse/. programme and outcome-based learning, an approach adopted by the Faculty and the University, which focuses on what students are expected to learn and achieve. Additionally, the programme covered topics including problem-based learning (PBL), clinical teaching, quality assurance, examination question writing and lecturing techniques. Each session was followed by a discussion on the topic, which provided an invaluable opportunity for the exchange of ideas and teaching experiences.

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Speech by Professor Sir David Todd Faculty Graduation and Prize Presentation Ceremony 2010 Queen Elizabeth Stadium January 15, 2011

ice-Chancellor, Dean of Medicine, Professor Leung, most of you have decided what to do and I wish you every success fellow graduates and your families, distinguished guests, in your chosen field. I hope many of you will become ‘generalists’ V colleagues, ladies and gentlemen: rather than specialists or super-specialists. Of course there is a need for all kinds. As medical care became more complex, It is an honour to have been asked by the University to share my specialisation was inevitable but perhaps we have become too thoughts with today’s graduates for which I am deeply grateful. organ/system orientated. There is a tendency to overlook the To all graduates I offer heartiest congratulations. This is the fact that a patient is a human being living in his or her special University’s Centennial Year so the timing of your ceremony is environment and these are important considerations in patient excellent. You have worked hard and are now duly rewarded. But care. The ‘generalist’ perhaps has a more holistic approach. More this is just the beginning of your new life and that is perhaps why Family Physicians are needed, especially with an aging population. in North America graduation is known as commencement. A friend of mine asked me to recommend a good family physician. At 60, she thought she was too young to see a geriatrician! Family Nearly 60 years ago I sat where you are today nervously waiting Medicine is now a specialty in its own right with departments in to be ‘capped’. Times have changed. The Medical Faculty in 1952 both local medical schools, and higher education and training is had less than 50 full time teachers, now it has 237. Queen Mary organised by the Hong Kong College of Family Physicians. Hospital had 546 beds, now it has 1,544. There were only 5 prizes to be awarded, now there are over 20. You are fortunate to have May I raise another discipline for your consideration? We should studied in a leading medical school and teaching hospital. remember that, perhaps with the exception of inoculations against disease, food, sanitation, housing and education are more The functions of a medical school are to teach, foster research and important determinants of health than medications. What is the care for patients. It is gratifying to see research and higher degrees most important cause of preventable death? It is poverty. Public awarded and teaching recognised today. In your career choice, I health is an attractive option for those who have a broader view hope a significant number of you will choose academic medicine of health care, and prevention is always better than cure. It was (including nursing and allied health disciplines). There is nothing good old fashioned public health measures that brought the more satisfying. The Hippocratic Oath and its modern version outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or SARS under exhort us to share our knowledge with others and organise control. The impressive health statistics of Hong Kong owe much the educational process for future members of the profession. to public health measures. Of course the prevention of disease As for research, how would medicine progress without it? Why is the responsibility of all healthcare professionals. Infections should medical doctors do research? There is always research such as malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS; cancer; cardiovascular relevant to human disease and a medical background is surely and life-style diseases; and environmental pollution are major helpful. The Nobel Laureate Sir John Sulston, who contributed so causes of premature death. Many of these can be prevented much to the human genome project, stated ‘The free release of by essentially public health measures. If you wish to explore genomic sequences, so valuable as a foundation is only a starting something new, there is public health genomics. This is defined point; without equitable application to healthcare it will become as ‘the responsibility and effective translation of genome-based an empty gesture. The current era of biology is full of intellectual knowledge and technologies for the benefit of population health’. excitement and medical promise’. This University owes much of Something for you to ponder. its eminence to research and much more could be achieved with new blood, and of course more funding. Where will the future When I graduated MBBS, I was on the top of the world. But the academic staff come from? Surely from some of you. first day on the ward brought me crashing down to earth. Nothing I did was right. The nursing staff found me a nuisance and the Apart from academic medicine, you have a wide choice of careers patients thought me clumsy. The relatively short undergraduate which may include administration and even politics! It is likely that course provides only basic education in medicine. The vocational

8 Medical Faculty News • Spotlight aspects, as well as the art of practice, are learnt during the period in a materialist world with many temptations; but you always of postgraduate medical education and training. This is later have a choice, make the right one. The trust of patients cannot be carried into continuing medical and professional education and breached. development. In Hong Kong, the postgraduate specialty colleges, now under the Academy of Medicine, were formally established It has been said that present day medical graduates lack the basic to organise and supervise these functions. You owe it to your skill of handling people as humans, are poor at communication patients, community and colleagues to be fully qualified in your and lack kindness. Professor Sir David Weatherall of Oxford specialty. These programmes are internationally recognised University stated ’A core of facts required to practice medicine and ensure that the quality of practice is of high standard and together with communication skills and an understanding of social is maintained. Still there is much to learn from other centres of and ethical issues can be taught and continued into postgraduate excellence and overseas studies should be accorded high priority. training. But, except by example, no medical school can teach We cannot be inbred and provincial. Sir William Osler stated that a young person how to be understanding and caring. This can medical education is not a medical course but a life course. The only come from the experience of life’. I do not entirely agree as American playwright G.S Kaufman said ‘ The kind of doctor I want is people in Hong Kong are now more socially aware. However, role one who, when not examining me, is at home studying medicine.’ models are important. The humanitarian and Nobel Laureate Dr Albert Schweitzer said ‘Example is not the main thing influencing Medicine is a time honoured profession. It is not a trade and others; it is the only thing’. Yet the art of medicine has somehow making a profit should not be your aim. There should be a large been lost amidst the science. This Faculty’s introduction of component of service which implies personal sacrifice. The humanities into the curriculum is surely a move in the right labeling of patients as clients has somewhat undermined this direction. concept. This is a proud day for you all, and for your family, teachers and What Mencius（孟子）said over two thousand years ago when friends. Again, please accept my warmest congratulations. It is he went to see King Hui of Liang（梁惠王）is relevant to medical always heartening to see a new generation taking over. Medicine practice today ‘ What is the point of mentioning the word “profit”? is a noble profession and it is up to you to keep it that way. It is All that matters is that there should be benevolence and rightness.’ also a stressful one, but do persevere. 王何必曰利? 亦有仁義而已矣。） I hope you all enjoyed your University days as much as I did and You are now members of the medical profession. What is it to be will remember your alma mater with affection and gratitude. a professional? What is medical professionalism? It is the basis of Always be a credit to your University. As you embark on your medicine’s contract with society. It demands placing the interests new journey though life, may you meet with every happiness and of patients above those of yourself, setting up and maintaining success, and serve your patients and the community to the best standards of competence and integrity, and providing expert of your ability. To borrow from John F Kennedy, ‘For you there is a advice to society in matters of health. Essential to this contract is new world to be won’. public trust in medical doctors and nurses which depends on the integrity and expertise of individuals and the whole profession. Last but not least, I wish you all a very Happy and Healthy Year of The indoctrination of professionalism should start in medical the Rabbit. school and I am glad this University has taken that step. We live Thank you for your kind attention.

Faculty Graduation and Prize Presentation Ceremony 2010

n January 15, 2011, some 2,500 graduands, awardees and their families and friends gathered in the Queen Elizabeth Stadium Ofor the Faculty Graduation and Prize Presentation Ceremony. The ceremony was officiated by Professor Lap-Chee Tsui 徐立之）, Vice-Chancellor, with Professor Sir David Todd（達安輝） as the guest of honour.

At the ceremony, prizes were presented to graduands with exceptional academic achievements. Three Faculty Teaching Medals were awarded in recognition of teaching excellence to Dr William Li Ho Cheung（李浩祥）, Dr Wong Nai Sum（黃乃琛） and Professor Yuen Man Fung（袁孟峰）. The Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award was awarded to Professor Guan Yi 管軼）and Professor Malik Peiris（裴偉士）for their collective work published in Nature.

Spotlight • Medical Faculty News 9 Nobel Laureate Gives Centenary Distinguished Lecture

rofessor Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, a leading expert in HIV/ On the following day, a group of senior secondary school students AIDS and a 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and medical students were given the exciting opportunity to P or Medicine, gave the second of the University’s prestigious meet and exchange views with Professor Barré-Sinoussi. “Lunch Centenary Distinguished Lectures on November 22, 2010. The with a Nobel Laureate”, an extension activity related to the lecture lecture, entitled “HIV/AIDS – a Scientific and Human Adventure in series, enabled the students to discuss a variety of issues with Response to an Emerging Epidemic”, was organised by the Medical the eminent scientist, including the AIDS epidemic and the latest Faculty in association with the HKU-Pasteur Research Centre. It advancement in AIDS treatment. During the two-hour session, attracted an audience of over 300. Professor Barré-Sinoussi also had the chance to share tips for success and her views on life. The lecture, one in a series of talks launched as part of the University’s Centenary Celebrations, was followed by a panel discussion moderated About Professor Françoise Barré-Sinoussi by Dean of Medicine Professor SP Lee Professor Barré-Sinoussi is a Professor at the Institut Pasteur and 李心平）. Panellists included University Research Director at INSERM in France. She has been involved in Council Chairman and Chairman of Hong retrovirology research since the early 1970s and played a crucial Kong AIDS Foundation Dr CH Leong role in the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus 梁智鴻）, Co-Director of the Centre for (HIV) as the cause of AIDS in 1983. Her groundbreaking work the Humanities and Medicine Dr Robert has earned her more than 10 national or international awards, Peckham, and Chief Executive of AIDS including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008, which Concern Ms Loretta Wong（黃慧筠）. she shares with Professor Luc Montagnier.

Launch of HKU Centenary Celebrations

KU officially launched its Centenary Celebrations on a parade of over 2,000 students, staff and alumni, showcasing the January 9, 2011, with the HKU 100 Kick-Off Ceremony University’s unity and diversity. Performances, game booths and Hheld at the Stanley Ho Sports Centre. The University’s food stalls were also organised. Over 4,000 participants joined the Centenary Celebrations, which will last for two years, began with fun-filled celebration.

10 Medical Faculty News • Inside the Faculty The 17th Hong Kong International Cancer Congress

he 2010 Hong Kong International Cancer Congress, held from November 3-5, attracted over 1,000 participants with T its theme of “Advances in Technology and New Perspectives in Cancer”. The congress involved 20 sessions covering topics including molecular pathology, paediatric cancer, targeted therapy, personalised medicine, cancer imaging, gynaecology, orthopaedic surgery, public health, family physicians’ role in cancer and psycho- social oncology. Twenty-five leading local clinicians, scientists and healthcare practitioners and 13 internationally renowned overseas scientists were invited to deliver lectures and workshops.

Four Young Investigator Awards were presented to acknowledge outstanding work by young researchers and research postgraduate students. The recipients were Mr Andy Ho（何孝恩）, Centre on Behavioral Health; Ms Wylie Li（李蔚宜）, School of Public Health; Mr Vincent Cheung Chi Ho（張志豪）, Department of Pathology; and Dr Phyllis Cheung Fung Yi（張鳳兒）, Department of Surgery.

Conference Explores Integrative Medicine Against Cancer

he 2010 International Conference on Integrative Medicine Against Cancer was held in conjunction with the 6th Pong T Ding Yuen International Symposium on Traditional Chinese Medicine and jointly organised by the School of Chinese Medicine, HKU and the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University（第二軍醫大學附屬長海醫院）, on November 27-28.

Twenty-five officiating guests got the conference underway, including Professor SP Chow（周肇平）, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of HKU, Dr Lam Ping Yan（林秉恩）, Director of Health, Department of Health, HKSAR and Professor YC Cheng（鄭永齊）, Henry Bronson Professor of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine. The popular event drew more than 500 local and 150 mainland and overseas participants.

Inside the Faculty • Medical Faculty News 11 Inside the Faculty

Hong Kong Public Health Forum 2010

round 200 healthcare professionals, staff, students and The School of Public Health’s inaugural Anthony J Hedley Lecture government officials attended the Hong Kong Public was also held during the Forum, with keynote speaker Professor Health Forum 2010, entitled “The Past and Future Roles of Hedley（賀達理） focusing his talk on “A Medical Emergency: Academic Public Health”, on December 13, 2010. Professor Gabriel Who Needs Academic Departments of Public Health, and Why?” Leung （梁卓偉）, Under Secretary for Food and Health, officiated Renowned speakers and participants from both healthcare and at the event, with Dr CH Leong （梁智鴻）, University Council academic fields also shared their views on the future directions of Chairman, and Dr Leung Pak Yin（梁栢賢）, Chief Executive of the public health development in Hong Kong. In his closing remarks, Hospital Authority, the guests of honour. Professor TH Lam（林大慶）, Director of the School of Public Health, highlighted the bright future of medical practitioners given the increasing demand from Mainland China.

Building a Harmonious Society

he 3rd Annual Symposium for FAMILY: A Jockey Club problems and promote family health, happiness and harmony (the Initiative for a Harmonious Society – BEST SCIENCE for 3Hs) to foster a harmonious society. T BEST PRACTICE: Building a Harmonious Society Using a Community-based Participatory Approach was held on Keynote speakers included Professor Meredith Minkler, University December 6, 2010. The FAMILY project was launched by The of California, Berkeley, USA and Dr Vish Viswanath, Harvard School Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust in collaboration with of Public Health, USA. In addition, government officials and local the School of Public Health. The city-wide project, supported by community leaders/stakeholders from Sham Shui Po, Yuen Long HK$250 million in funding from the Trust, aims to address family and Kwun Tong were invited to the panel discussions on strategies for promoting the 3Hs. Professor Roland Chin（錢大康）, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of HKU, Mr Anthony Chow（周永健）, Steward of The Hong Kong Jockey Club, Ms Grace Lui Kit Yuk（雷潔玉）, Deputy Secretary for Home Affairs, and Professor SP Lee, Dean of Medicine, were among the officiating guests at the opening ceremony.

For more information about the FAMILY project, please visit www.family.org.hk/.

12 Medical Faculty News • Inside the Faculty Annual Scientific Meeting and 43rd Council of Directors of the Institut Pasteur International Network

he HKU-Pasteur Research Centre (HKU-PRC) organised the Annual Scientific Meeting and the 43rd Council of Directors of the Institut Pasteur International Network from November T 22-25, 2010. The meeting began with a keynote lecture by Professor Françoise Barré- Sinoussi, joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008 for the discovery of HIV. Three thematic sessions on current research in vaccine preventable diseases, neglected diseases, and networking to improve health were also held.

In addition, the meeting marked the 10th anniversary of the establishment of HKU-PRC. At the opening ceremony, Professor Alice Dautry, President of the Institut Pasteur, and Professor Paul Tam（譚廣亨）, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of HKU, praised the results of the partnership in fighting infectious diseases through biological research and teaching. They also paid tribute to the late chairman of HKU-PRC, Dr James Kung Ziang Mien（孔祥勉）.

Frontiers in Biomedical Research, HKU 2010

he 9th Faculty Research Symposium, “Frontiers in Biomedical Research, HKU 2010”, was successfully held on T December 3, 2010. The symposium featured three parallel sessions on the Faculty’s strategic research areas: cancer; heart, brain, hormone and healthy aging; infection and immunology; public health; and reproduction, development and growth. The rapidly evolving fields of stem cells and genomics were also part of the programme. Twelve renowned overseas keynote speakers, together with two Best Research Output and Outstanding Young Researcher Awardees and 10 local experts from HKU were invited nine years, the symposium was well received and attracted around to present their latest discoveries. Riding on its success in the past 900 participants.

Focus on Quality Assurance at Medical and Health Sciences Education Conference

he “Frontiers in Medical and Health Sciences Education: and Health Sciences Education, focused on four themes: Assuring Excellence in Medical and Health Sciences outcome-based professional training in quality assurance; T Education” conference was held on December 10- quality assurance of professionalism; tools in quality assurance; 11, 2010. The conference, organised by the Institute of Medical and quality assurance in assessment. Plenary sessions were presented by distinguished overseas and local scholars, including Professor Richard Baker, University of Leicester, UK; Professor David Fielding, University of British Columbia, Canada; Professor Amanda Howe, University of East Anglia, UK; Professor Elizabeth Farmer, Health Workforce, Australia; Professor Kevin Eva, University of British Columbia, Canada; Dr CT Hung（熊志添）, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine and Dr Yibin Feng（馮奕斌）, Professor Grace Tang（鄧惠瓊）and Dr Agnes Tiwari（羅鳳儀）of HKU. The conference drew nearly 150 overseas and local participants.

Inside the Faculty • Medical Faculty News 13 Inside the Faculty

Strengthening the Centenary Connection between Dr Sun Yat-sen and the Faculty

ollowing a generous donation from Dr Lily Sun Sui Fong Professor SP Lee, Dean of Medicine, thanked Dr Lily Sun for （孫穗芳）, Dr Sun Yat-sen’s granddaughter and President her donation and staunch support. He also noted how F of Dr Sun Yat-sen Foundation for Peace and Education, Dr Sun Yat-sen had been an excellent role model a bronze statue of the Father of Nation has been erected in the down the generations with regard to excelling Foyer of Cheung Kung Hai Conference Centre on the medical in our endeavours and contributing to the campus. The unveiling ceremony took place on December 20, community and the nation. 2010, with officiating guests including Dr Lily Sun, Dr Sun Yat-sen graduated from the Hong Kong College Dr CH Leong, Professor of Medicine for Chinese, predecessor of HKU Medical Paul Tam, Professor SP Lee Faculty, in 1892. During his five years’ study, Dr Sun and Professor NK Leung not only became a doctor, but also nurtured his 梁乃江）, President of HKU revolutionary ideas, leading to the overthrow Medical Alumni Association. of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, a milestone in the history of modern China.

Reception for Dr Cheng Yu Tung Fellows 2010-2011

t a reception held on October 11, 2010, the 13th intake of Dr Cheng Yu Tung（鄭裕彤） Fellows expressed their gratitude to Dr Cheng for his generosity and support. At the event, Dr Yu Jiaole（于皎樂）, a 2007-08 Fellow, shared her experience of the scheme and its impact. As with 32 other ex- Fellows, Dr Yu proceeded to higher degree studies (PhD) at HKU on completion of her fellowship training.

Dr Cheng encouraged the Fellows to make the best use of their learning o p p o r t u n i t i e s , a n d Established in 1998, Dr Cheng Yu Tung Fellowships aim to assist transfer the knowledge Fellows from Mainland China to undertake clinical attachment, acquired at HKU back to management and research training at the Medical Faculty. A total of their home institutions 218 Fellows have received support so far. Details of the scheme are in the Mainland. available at www.hku.hk/facmed/04research_fellow_ drcheng.htm.

Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions First New Year Baby Bor n t he Medical Faculty received a record 6,500 visitors at HKU o M Information Day for Undergraduate Admissions on October BB 30, 2010. The event aims to introduce the Faculty’s latest S T Al education, research and clinical developments to visitors. Activities um included admission talks, guided tours, mock problem-based learning n i sessions, clinical and nursing skills demonstrations, exhibitions, video C shows as well as interactive games and sharing sessions. Schools, o u departments and various facilities were also opened to the public to enable people to gain a better p understanding of campus life for members of the Faculty. le

14 Medical Faculty News • Inside the Faculty Alumni News Outing to Hong Kong Geopark and Dinner in Kat O

KU Medical Alumni Association (HKUMAA) organised its annual Houting on December 12, 2010, enabling over 80 alumni and their families to get together for a relaxing and educational day at the Geopark. The park is located in Hong Kong’s Northeast New Territories Sedimentary Rock Region, an area with rich geological resources and scenic value. During the outing, participants enjoyed a boat trip and guided walking tour of some of Hong Kong’s most spectacular natural landscapes, including Toto Channel, Double Haven and Ap Chau, followed by a special village seafood dinner in Kat O.

Overseas Gathering Programme Sub-Committee 2010-2011

KUMAA Founding President Professor Rosie Young Chairperson Dr Kathleen So（蘇碧嫺）(MBBS 1971) H 楊紫芝）(MBBS 1953) and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Secretary Dr Chong Lai Yin（莊禮賢）(MBBS 1979) SP Chow（周肇平）(MBBS 1968) visited Vancouver in October and Members Dr Edmund Chan（陳祖鈞）(MBBS 1986) held a lunch gathering for MBBS alumni residing there. The event took Dr Kingsley Chan（陳厚毅）(MBBS 2000) place on October 9, 2010, with 24 alumni attending. Dr Eliza Fung（馮寶恩）(MBBS 1997) Dr Aziz Kam（甘嘉維）(MBBS 2010) Dr Barbara Lam（藍章翔）(MBBS 1981) Dr Kevin Lau（劉仲恆）(MBBS 2005) Professor Leung Nai Kong（梁乃江）(MBBS 1966) Dr Janice Tsang（曾詠恆）(MBBS 1999) Dr Tsui Sik Hon（徐鍚漢）(MBBS 1990) Dr Victor Yeung（楊協和）(MBBS 2006)

First New Y ear Ba by B orn wo MBBS 2006 graduates welcomed in the t o M TNew Year with a very special event when their baby became BB the first to be born in Hong Kong in 2011. Mother Dr Noella Lo Lok Yan S A （羅樂欣）, who is married to Dr Ivan Tsang Cheuk Hang（曾卓恆）, l um was delighted by the early arrival. The baby boy, weighing in at 2.7kg, n had been expected on January 5. “I’m very happy that he was born i C on January 1, 2011. A new year means a good beginning, o and my baby is the best gift to celebrate it,” said Noella, u p who is herself a gynaecologist. We send our warmest l congratulations to the Tsangs and wish them joy. e

Alumni News • Medical Faculty News 15 Alumni News Class 1960 Class Reunions

50th Anniversary Reunion – Dinner at Luk Kwok Hotel (November 28, 2010)

Class 1970

Class 1965 45th Anniversary Reunion Dinner (November 9 , 2010)

Class 1980 40th Anniversary Reunion – Dinner and talk at Alumni Chamber (November 9, 2010)

30th Anniversary Reunion – Visit to the Faculty and dinner at Loke Yew Hall (July 10, 2010) Class 1985 25th Anniversary Reunion Dinner (December 4, 2010) Class 1990

20th Anniversary Reunion - Class 2000 Dinner at Alumni Chamber (November 20, 2010)

10th Anniversary Reunion – Dinner at Hong Kong Football Club (November 20, 2010)

16 Medical Faculty News • Alumni News Next Generation Health Exhibition 2010: “Lung Express: Year of the Lung 2010” Health Exhibition Organising Committee, Medical Society (MS), HKUSU

he annual Health Exhibition 2010, organised by medical During the exhibition, visitors were also given information on T students, took place at Tsuen Wan Plaza and Shatin Town Hall on and screened for potentially debilitating lung illnesses. Health October 2-3, and October 9-10, 2010 respectively. The 2010 exhibition, checks included blood pressure measurement, BMI measurement, organised in collaboration with the Hong Kong Thoracic Society, pulse oximetry, a lung function test and peak expiratory flow rate focused on respiratory health issues affecting the Hong Kong public. measurement. The event covered a number of common, serious and misunderstood respiratory health topics and lifestyle tips, ranging from “cold vs flu” Founded in 1987, the Health Exhibition Organising Committee is and allergic rhinitis to asthma and smoking cessation. dedicated to disease prevention and general health education. This year’s interesting and informative look at the respiratory system attracted over 2,000 visitors.

To Serve Those Who Serve – Community Service for Foreign Domestic Helpers Health Committee, MS, HKUSU

hen it comes to Sundays, many people enjoy sleeping in late the helpers about diseases they may be susceptible to in their work, W or spending quality time with friends and family. However, for example, irritant contact dermatitis, and rectified misconceptions days off can also be fulfilling when spent serving the community. On about household first-aid and medical knowledge. Some 250 people September 19, 2010, a group of students from the Medical Faculty received information and the feedback from both foreign domestic went to Statue Square and Chater Garden in Central to discuss health- helpers and students was very positive. related issues with foreign domestic helpers. The students talked to

Pharmacy Society Established Pharmacy Society, MS, HKUSU

he Pharmacy Society held its Establishment Ceremony on T October 22, 2010. The Society seeks to provide services and welfare to its members, to represent these pharmacists-to-be, and to promote better understanding of the role of pharmacists in the Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry; Dr Alan J Worsley community. and Professor Ricky Man（文英強）from the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy; and Professor YS Chan（陳應城）, Officiating at this memorable event were Mr William Chui（崔俊 the Medical Faculty’s Associate Dean of Academic Networking 明）, Chief of Pharmacy Service, Hong Kong West Cluster, Hospital & Student Affairs. Over 100 guests from the pharmacy field and Authority; Dr Sian Ng（吳楚珊), President of the Hong Kong related medical student bodies attended the occasion.

Next Generation • Medical Faculty News 17 Next Generation Medic Festival 2010

he Medical Society successfully held the Medic Festival 2010 in October, presenting a varied collection Tof activities in line with this year’s “collage” theme. Programmes included a Halloween uniform party, lunch gathering and, to end the event, a talent quest where skills on display ranged from singing and playing the violin to drama, magic tricks and dancing. Miss Cathy Shum, a BNurs Year 1 student, captured the championship of the singing division while Simon Wong (MBBS II) became the champion in the non- singing division with a wonderful magic show. New Friends Lunch – Buddy Scheme 2010/2011

Fan Pui Lunchtime Programme: n October 4, 2010, hundreds of Faculty freshmen O gathered for lunch to kick off the Buddy Scheme for “What We Talk About When We Talk 2010-2011. At the event, freshmen were warmly welcomed About LOVE” by Mr Ong Yi Hing by senior classmates and prepared for their challenging but fruitful educational journey ahead. opular Hong Kong writer Mr Ong Yi Hing（王貽興）, the youngest P winner of the Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature, gave Organised as part of the Programme for Effective Transition a well-received talk on the philosophy of love on November 1, 2010. Mr Ong and Student Support (PETTS), the Buddy Scheme is famous for his unique descriptions of life, love and dreams, and encourages senior year students to serve as big brothers in particular the complicated nature of relationships. In this or sisters to students who have just joined the Faculty. thought-provoking presentation, he focused on the Through regular gatherings, the scheme seeks to ease various ways that love is interpreted in today’s world, freshmen’s integration drawing around 200 students and teachers. Mr Ong into university life also engaged in direct discussion with members of through support from the audience, adding to the relaxed but stimulating fellow students. nature of the event.

15th Research Postgraduate Symposium

Poster Presentations Miss Cheung Tsz Yan（張芷恩）, MPhil (Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology) Mr Lee Kin Shing（李鍵成）, PhD (Department of Biochemistry) Miss Chen Meipian（陳美翩）, PhD (Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine) Ms Ge Xuan（戈萱）, PhD (Department of Medicine) Miss Yu Jiaole（于皎樂）, PhD (Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine) Miss Zhang Yingying（張瑩瑩）, PhD (Department of Medicine) Miss Wang Zuhao（汪祖昊）, MPhil (School of Chinese Medicine) Miss Mary Wu Kendra（吳梓明）, PhD (Department of Community Medicine) Mr Peter Cheung Pak Hang（張栢恆）, PhD (Department of Microbiology) ver 300 students presented posters and Mrs Isabelle Cecile Angele Dutry, PhD (Department of Microbiology) almost 100 gave oral presentations at the 15th O Miss Kwan Hoi Tung（關愷彤）, MPhil (Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology) Research Postgraduate Symposium held on December Mr Lam Siu Chi（林少志）, PhD (Department of Medicine) 1-2, 2010. The Symposium was honoured to have six renowned academics from around the world Oral Presentations as chairpersons or adjudicators at the parallel oral Ms Liu Ling（劉凌）, PhD (Department of Medicine) presentation sessions and the plenary session. Miss Miss Lo Wai U（羅慧瑜）, PhD (Department of Microbiology) Au Leung Kuen（區良娟）, PhD candidate from the Mr Tam Wai Kit（譚偉傑）, PhD (Department of Orthopaedics Department of Pathology, won the Best Presentation and Traumatology) Award. Students who gave the best presentations at the parallel sessions received Certificates of Merit:

18 Medical Faculty News • Next Generation Congratulations

Appointment

Professor Lau Chak Sing（劉澤星）, Chair of Rheumatology been appointed Director of the Institute of Medical and Health and Clinical Immunology of the Department of Medicine, has Sciences Education. Achievements & Awards

Professor Chan Ying Shing（陳應城）, Professor of the Establishment and studies on environmental factors and major Department of Physiology, has been awarded the Outstanding chronic diseases”. Research Student Supervisor Award by the University. Professor William Wei（韋霖）, Li Shu Pui Professor in Surgery Professor Fan Sheung Tat（范上達）, Sun Chieh Yeh Chair of and Chair in Otorhinolaryngolgy, has been awarded Honorary Hepatobiliary Surgery and Head of the Department of Surgery, Fellowship from The American College of Surgeons. has been awarded Honorary Fellowship from The College of Surgeons of Hong Kong. Professor Fan has also been awarded the Professor Yuen Kwok Yung（袁國勇）and Professor Guan Yi Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress by The Ho Leung 管軼）of the Department of Microbiology, have been awarded Ho Lee Foundation. the Excellent Research Awards (Basic and Laboratory Science) respectively at the Health Research Symposium 2010 hosted by Professor Guan Xin Yuan（關新元）, Professor of the the Food and Health Bureau. On the same occasion, Dr Benjamin Department of Clinical Oncology and collaborators at Fudan Cowling（高本恩) and Dr Irene Wong Oi Ling（黃愛玲) have University, have been awarded the Second Class State Natural been awarded the Excellent Research Award (Public Health) and Science Award（2010年度國家自然科學獎二等獎）by the the Excellent Research Award (Health and Health Services Research) National Office of Science and Technology Awards for the respectively. project entitled “The identification and significance of the novel mechanism of hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis”. Professor Yuen Man Fung（袁孟峰）, Clinical Professor of the Department of Medicine, has been awarded the Outstanding Professor Ho Pak Chung（何柏松）, Chair of Obstetrics Researcher Award by the University. and Gynaecology of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, has been awarded Honorary Fellowship from Dr Agnes Fung Yee Tiwari（羅鳳儀）, Associate Professor of the The Korean Society of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. School of Nursing, has been awarded International Fellowship from The American Academy of Nursing. Professor Mary Ip Sau Man（葉秀文）, Mok Hing Yiu Professor in Respiratory Medicine of the Department of Medicine, has been Dr Eric Tse Wai Choi（謝偉財）, Clinical Associate Professor of awarded the Harasawa Award for research achievements by the the Department of Medicine, and Dr Wang Yu（汪玉）, Assistant Asian Pacific of Society of Respirology. Professor of the Department of Pharmacology & Pharmacy, have been awarded the Outstanding Young Researcher Award by the Professor Lam Tai Hing（林大慶）, Sir Robert Kotewell University. Professor in Public Health and Director of the School of Public Health and Professor Gabriel Leung（梁卓偉）, Professor Dr Zhongjun Zhou（周中軍）, Associate Professor of the of the School of Public Health, together with collaborators Department of Biochemistry, and collaborators from the from the Guangzhou 12th Hospital and University of Mainland, has been awarded the Second Class State Scientific and Birmingham, have been awarded the First-class Award of Technological Progress Award（2010年度國家科技進步獎二等獎） the Guangzhou Scientific and Technology Progress Award by the National Office of Science and Technology Awards for the 廣州市科學技術獎勵一等獎）by Guangzhou People’s project entitled “Study on the molecular mechanisms modulating Government for the project entitled “Guangzhou Biobank Project: aging as well as the establishment and application of individual aging-evaluating system”. Publications

The paper entitled “A Mutation in Ihh that Causes Digit Dr Danny Chan（陳振勝）of the Department of Biochemistry and Abnormalities Alters Its Signaling Capacity and Range”, published collaborators, has been awarded the Research Output Prize by the in Nature, April 2009, authored by Dr Martin Cheung Chi Hang University. 張知恆）, Professor Kathryn Cheah（謝賞恩）and

Congratulations • Medical Faculty News 19 Congratulations

Dean Awarded International Honours

Dean of Medicine Professor SP Lee chemistry of biliary lipids, and cell biology of 李心平）recently received two prestigious the biliary epithelium, all of which correlated international accolades in recognition of with clinical observations in patients suffering his achievements in scientific research from biliary diseases and gallstones. The 2010 and patient care. Professor Lee is the first AASLD Distinguished Awards were presented Asian recipient of the AASLD Distinguished at The Liver Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts Achievement Award, presented to him by The in November. The honour from the ACG American Association for the Study of Liver is a rare tribute to physicians who have Diseases (AASLD). Professor Lee has also been demonstrated distinguished service to the bestowed Master of the American College of College and to gastrointestinal patient care Gastroenterology (ACG). and education. More than 11,750 physicians from 82 countries are ACG members. The honour was conferred In a news report, Professor Lee said he felt deeply honoured, yet at the ACG Annual Scientific Meeting in San Antonio, Texas in greatly humbled and inspired by the awards. “It is wonderful October. Professor Lee is particularly pleased that Professor recognition for Asia, China, and Hong Kong as well as HKU. I am Joseph Leung Wing Cheong 梁永昌）(MBBS 1975) has received grateful to Hong Kong, a place that provided me with education the same award marking this an unprecedented honour to the and inspired my life-long career.” He also emphasised that the University of Hong Kong. awards did not belong to him as an individual, but to his whole research team, which has been most dedicated and working Professor Lee received his MBBS (1970) and MD (1980) degrees diligently for decades. from HKU and has an outstanding career spanning Hong Kong, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, and the US. He has served as an The AASLD Distinguished Achievement Award is given to an adviser to several major scientific journals and research funding individual in recognition of sustained scientific contributions agencies, and has received numerous recognitions and awards. He to the field of liver disease and the scientific foundations of was the Head of the Division of Gastroenterology at the University hepatology. The award honoured Professor Lee’s prolific lifelong of Washington School of Medicine Teaching Hospitals for 13 years contributions to multidisciplinary research on hepato-biliary before returning to HKU to take up the Deanship at the Li Ka Shing physiology, including the biochemistry of bile secretion, physical Faculty of Medicine.

Media Highlights

o keep the Hong Kong community informed of the latest 日報醫學教室系列》 (alternate Wednesdays) and am730 《香港大學 Tdevelopments in health-related issues, and to encourage a healthy 學生會健康展覽《環遊肺界》系列》, 《港大幹細胞研究系列》 lifestyle, the Faculty produces regular radio programmes and health and《港大醫學研究中心巡禮》(Mondays). Please visit our Public columns in local newspapers. Newspaper columns include the Oriental Health Information section at www.hku.hk/facmed to find out Daily News《東方日報醫健寶庫系列》(Sundays), Apple Daily《蘋果 more. Recent Faculty press events were:

Sep 6 HKU study on the association between discontinuation of medication and relapse in early psychosis 港大研究停藥及復發在早期思覺失調病人的關係

HKU surveys family communication patterns in Hong Kong – more praise more happiness – a study under the FAMILY Sep 26 Project: a Jockey Club initiative for a harmonious society 港大「愛 + 人：賽馬會和諧社會計劃」調查香港家庭溝通模式─多點讚賞，多點快樂

HKU finds male psychosis patients in Hong Kong have longer delays and poorer response to treatment – a study under Oct 6 the Jockey Club Early Psychosis (JCEP) Project 港大「賽馬會思覺健康計劃」發現思覺失調男性患者延醫較長療效較差

HKU clinical study on treating post-stroke depression by acupuncture Dec 15 港大針灸治療中風後抑鬱臨床研究

20 Medical Faculty News • Congratulations & Media Highlights People

University of Melbourne in 1997, and has been Dr Thomas Yau Chung Cheung a fellow of the Royal Australasian College （邱宗祥）joined the Centre for Hello of Physicians since 2005. Dr Tan is a luminal Cancer Research in November gastroenterologist with published research 2010, and is working as Clinical Dr Cheung King Ho（張敬 interests in gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, Assistant Professor in Medical Oncology in 浩）joined the Department of functional dyspepsia, peptic ulcer disease, both Departments of Surgery and Medicine. Physiology as Assistant Professor celiac disease and inflammatory bowel Dr Yau obtained his medical degree from HKU in November 2010. Dr Cheung disease. in 1998. He started his medical oncology obtained his PhD degree from The Chinese training initially at Queen Mary Hospital and University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2004 Dr Ian Wong Yat Hin（王逸 later worked as Clinical Research Fellow at and then pursued his post-doctoral training 軒）joined the Eye Institute Royal Marsden Hospital, London in 2003 - in the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He as Clinical Assistant Professor 2004. He also worked as a visiting faculty in worked closely with Professor J Kevin Foskett in December 2010. Dr Wong Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Centre, to elucidate the molecular mechanisms obtained his medical degree from HKU in Harvard Medical School in 2010. His main of calcium dysregulation in Alzheimer’s 2003, and became the Fellow of the Hong research interests include gastrointestinal disease. His current research interests focus Kong Academy of Medicine (Ophthalmology) oncology, early phase clinical trials and on the structure-function of intracellular in 2010. Dr Wong specialises in the field translational research. calcium channels and their roles in disease of retina, with main research areas on the pathogenesis. screening and treatment modalities of diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular Dr Nikki Lee Pui Yue（李珮 degeneration, and other posterior segment 瑜）joined the Department of disorders. He is also interested in the imaging Surgery as Assistant Professor of retina using optical coherence tomography. in August 2010. She obtained Goodbye her doctoral degree on research regarding Dr William Wong Chi Wai reproduction from HKU in 2004. After that, （黃志威) j o i n e d t h e We would like to express our gratitude and she received her post-doctoral training in Department of Family Medicine send our best wishes to the following staff the Department of Surgery of HKU, focused & Primary Care as Clinical members who have left/ will be leaving the on the use of proteomics in identifying Associate Professor in October 2010. Dr Wong Faculty: oncofetal molecules of liver cancers. Her graduated from the University of Edinburgh , current research interests are molecular and completed his general practice training Professor Annie Kung Wai Chee（龔慧慈） characterisations of oncofetal molecules as at St Thomas’ Hospital, London in 1998. Apart Department of Medicine biomarkers and therapeutic targets for liver from working in the UK, he has also worked Dr Kenneth Law Siu Kei（羅兆基）, cancer. in China and Australia. His research interests Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology reflect the breath and diverse nature of family Dr Vincent Cheung Yuk Tong（張煜棠）, Dr Victoria Tan（陳萍兒） medicine, but principally focus on sexual Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology joined the Department of health, health equity and health promotion. Dr Beatrice Nal-Rogier, Medicine as Clinical Assistant He has published over 80 manuscripts in peer- HKU Pasteur Research Centre Professor in October 2010. Dr reviewed journals and is an Associate Editor Tan obtained her medical degree from the for Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Donations

The Faculty sincerely thanks the following donors for their generous support.

1,000,000 or above 500,000 or above Dr Fung Ching Fai In support of the academic development in the Division Mr Lam Sum Chee Mrs Fong Tam Yuen Leung of Neurosurgery of the Department of Surgery In support of the research on childhood genetics and In support of the “Mrs Fong Tam Yuen Leung Liver immunology undertaken by Professor YL Lau of the Research Fund” of the Department of Surgery Mr & Mrs Lo Chung Hin Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine In support of the research project entitled “Development 100,000 or above of Antimicrobial Peptide Coated Metallic Implant for The Li Shu Pui Medical Foundation Bone Fracture Fixation” undertaken by Dr Kelvin Yeung In support of the establishment of the Minimally Anonymous of the Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology Invasive Surgery Training Centre of the Department of In support of the research in joint replacement surgery Mr Warren Wong Kam Fai Surgery and treatment of arthritic conditions undertaken by In support of the research activities undertaken by Professor KY Chiu and Dr CH Yan of the Department of Sun Chieh Yeh Heart Foundation Dr Y Feng of the School of Chinese Medicine In support of the cardiovascular research undertaken Orthopaedics & Traumatology by the Research Centre of Heart, Brain, Hormone & Healthy Aging In alphabetical order of last name or organisation name

People & Donations • Medical Faculty News 21 Forthcoming Events

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Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) 6th International Symposium on Healthy Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN) Student Course Aging: A New Golden Age Provider Course Date Date Date January 7 – 9, February 25 – 27, March 5 – 6, 2011 April 1 – 2, 2011 March 11 – 13, April 1 – 3 & Venue Venue April 15 – 17, 2011 The Ballroom, Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers Department of Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital Venue Information Information Department of Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital Ms Phoebe Chow Course Administrator, Department of Surgery Tel: 2255 4885 / 2255 4886 Information Research Centre of Heart, Brain, Hormone & Healthy Fax: 2819 3416 Course Administrator, Department of Surgery Aging Email: [email protected] Tel: 2255 4885 / 2255 4886 Tel: 2819 9866 Website: www3.hku.hk/surgery/atcn.php Fax: 2819 3416 Fax: 2816 2293 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www3.hku.hk/surgery/atls.php Website: www.hku.hk/hbha 3rd HKU-Pasteur Cell Biology Date Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) Postgraduate Diploma in Child and April 10 – 22, 2011 Provider Course Adolescent Health – Module on Venue Date Cardiorespiratory Health and Lifestyle HKU-Pasteur Research Centre, 1/F, Dexter HC Man January 22 & 30, March 13 & 27, 2011 Date Building, 8 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam Venue March 5 – 6, 2011 Information Hong Kong St. John Ambulance Association, Venue Ms Anne Li St. John Tower, 2 Macdonnell Road, Hong Kong Room 120, 1/F, New Clinical Building Tel: 2816 8403 Information Queen Mary Hospital Fax: 2872 5782 Hong Kong St. John Ambulance Association Email: [email protected] Information Website: www.hkupasteur.hku.hk Tel: 2530 8020 Ms Dora Lai Fax: 2976 0457 Tel: 2817 0641 Email: [email protected] Fax: 2855 1523 Croucher ASI on “Mitochondrial Stress in Website: www3.hku.hk/surgery/phtls.php Email: [email protected] Diabetes and Aging” Website: www.hku.hk/paed Date Croucher ASI on “Molecular Genetics and April 29, 2011 Clinical Advances in the Study of Esophageal Explore the World of Medicine: Venue and Gastric Cancers” Public Lecture Series 2011 Mrs Chen Yang Foo Oi Telemedicine Centre Date 育醫造才：探索醫學世界2011公開講座系列 2/F, William MW Mong Block 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam January 23 – 27, 2011 Topics Information Venue March 5, 2011 Ms Phoebe Chow Lecture Theatre 3, Cheung Kung Hai Conference Knowledge on reproduction Research Centre of Heart, Brain, Hormone & Healthy Centre & Mrs Chen Yang Foo Oi Telemedicine 生殖學新知 Aging Centre, William MW Mong Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Tel: 2819 9866 Pokfulam April 2, 2011 Fax: 2816 2293 Information Disorders of Aging: Anemia and Rheumatological Email: [email protected] ASI Secretariat, Department of Surgery Diseases Website: www.hku.hk/hbha Tel: 2255 4885 / 2255 4886 認識老年病：貧血症及免疫系統疾病 Fax: 2819 3416 Venue Email: [email protected] Lecture Theatre, Hong Kong Central Library Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Information February Tel: 2819 9994 Fax: 2974 0678 Information Day for Master of Public Health Email: [email protected] Website: www.med.hku.hk/publiclecture Date February 2 & March 19, 2011 Update Certificate Course in Nephrology Venue Date Seminar Room 6, LG1/F, Laboratory Block March 12 – 13, 2011 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam Information Venue Ms Cindy Koon, School of Public Health Lecture Theatre 1, Cheung Kung Hai Conference Tel: 2819 9140 Centre, William MW Mong Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Fax: 2855 9528 Pokfulam Email: [email protected] Information Website: web.hku.hk/~cmdmph/ Ms Celia Chor, Department of Medicine Tel: 2255 4607 Fax: 2816 2863 Email: [email protected] Website: www.hku.hk/medicine/postdip_ certcourse.htm