Our recruitment efforts are starting to bear fruit. Recently, we welcomed two outstanding international scholars to HKUMed, medical oncologist Professor Rina Hui Yee-man, who joins us from the University of Sydney as the Director of the new Centre of Cancer Medicine, and Professor David Makram Bishai, who joins us from Johns Hopkins as the new Director of the School of Public Health. We are on the verge of recruiting a world-renowned neuroscientist to head the School of Biomedical Sciences, and a top-notch pharmacologist to head the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, as well as experts in drug discovery and delivery, integrative medicine and nanotechnology. The latter arrivals will help strengthen our preparations to transform the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy into a School. Other avenues are also being explored to bolster staff numbers. Next week, the Secretary for Health will lead a delegation to our campus and we intend to propose initiatives to him to strengthen our clinical and healthcare professoriate so that we can better contribute to healthcare development in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area (GBA). In parallel, I will also be engaging with the Hospital Authority and our teaching hospital partners to explore possible manpower deployment models. 14
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