State of the Faculty Address 2020

12 Clinical Service Preparatory works for Phase 1 of the Grantham Hospital redevelopment including our Research Block are well underway with demolition and foundation works scheduled to commence during this final quarter of 2020, the super structure construction in 2022, and we are heading for on-time completion in 2025. Once completed it will provide world-class infrastructure for our Centre for PanorOmic Sciences to enhance the translational aspects of precision medicine, taking a multi-omics approach to understanding and treating cancer at the HKU-Jockey Club Centre for Clinical Innovation and Discovery at the redeveloped Grantham Hospital as Hong Kong’s first dedicated academic cancer centre. Incubating under the auspices of HKU Health System, the Emergency Medicine Unit that staffs the Gleneagles Hong Kong Accident and Emergency Department as well as provides academic input to our other teaching hospital partners, has gone from strength to strength. With Professor Timothy Rainer having recently taken up duty as its first Professor and Head, the Unit will work hard over the next several years to attain departmental status that will hopefully be commensurate with its achievements in teaching and research in due time.