V23I1 Special

8 Professional Recognition and Individual Honours/Awards • Professor Malik Peiris (Public Health) was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences as well as made “Officier de la Légion d’honneur” by the French government. • Professor Paul KH Tam (Surgery) was awarded the Denis Browne Gold Medal by the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS). • Professor Lau Chak-sing (Medicine) was elected President of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine and made Honorary Fellows of the Academy of Medicine Singapore, American College of Physicians, College of Physicians Singapore and Royal College of Physicians of Thailand. He also won the APLAR (Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology) Center of Excellence for Research, Training and Education and Patient Care Award, as well as was conferred the Hang Seng-Regeneration Society “Outstanding Community Service Award” . • Dr Chan Wai-chi (Psychiatry) was elected President of the Chinese Dementia Research Association. • Dr Cheung Chi-wai (Anaesthesiology) was elected President of the Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologists. • Professor Kenneth Cheung Man-chee (Orthopaedics and Traumatology) was elected President of The Scoliosis Research Society, being the first to assume the office from outside of North America in the Society’s 51 years’ history. • Professor Lau Yu-lung (Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine) was elected President of the Asia Pacific Society for Immunodeficiencies. • Dr Yau Wai-pan (Orthopaedics and Traumatology) became President-Elect of the Hong Kong College of Orthopaedic Surgeons. • Professor Anne Lee Wing-mui (Clinical Oncology) was elected to the Board of Directors of the Union of International Cancer Control (UICC) for 2016-2018. • Professor Guan Yi and Professor Leo Poon (Public Health) were elected Fellows by distinction of the Faculty of Public Health of the UK Royal College of Physicians. • Professor Jimmy Lai (Ophthalmology) was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, Fellow of the Academy of Asia- Pacific Professors of Ophthalmology and President of the College of Ophthalmologists of Hong Kong. • Professor Law Wai-lun (Surgery) became Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. • Professors Hextan Ngan and William Yeung (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) were made Honorary Fellows of the Hong Kong College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. • Dr Ho Pak-leung (Microbiology), Professor Paul KH Tam (Surgery) and Professor Sham Pak-chung (Centre for Genomic Sciences) were appointed Justices of the Peace. • Professor Michael Irwin (Anaesthesiology) was made Mary Burnell Lecturer by the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. • The following colleagues won various awards from the Croucher Foundation: – Professor Anskar Leung Yu-hung (Medicine) – Croucher Senior Medical Research Fellowship 2017; – Professor Leo Poon Lit-man (Public Health) – Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2017; – Dr Carmen Wong Chak-lui (Pathology) – Croucher Innovation Award 2017; – Dr Paul Lee Chi-ho (Medicine) – Croucher Foundation Fellowship 2017/8. • Professor Chow Shew-ping (Orthopaedics and Traumatology) was awarded IFSSH (The International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand) Pioneer of Hand Surgery. • Professor Lo Chung-mau (Surgery) was awarded The International Transplantation Science Mentee-Mentor Award. • Dr Alan Sihoe Dart-loon (Surgery) was awarded the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) Greek Pioneers’ Prize and Intuitive Prize. • Dr Chang Wing-chung (Psychiatry) received the IEPA (International Early Psychosis Association) Young Investigator Award and the 2016 NARSAD Young Investigator Award Grant by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. • Dr Chen Jianping and Professor Shen Jiangang (Chinese Medicine) received a Science and Technology Award of Integrative Medicine (Third class) by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China. • Professors Shen Jiangang and Lao Lixing (Chinese Medicine) were given a Science and Technology Award of Shanghai City (First and Third class respectively) by the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government. • Dr Alex Ng Lap-ki (Ophthalmology) was recognised as a Distinguished Young Fellow by the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine and the College of Ophthalmologists of Hong Kong, and given the Young Ophthalmologist Award by the Asia- Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology and Singapore Society of Ophthalmology. Major Research Support • The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust awarded HKD128M to the School of Public Health for the Jockey Club SMART Fami-Link Project, in collaboration with 12 NGOs in Hong Kong. • Professor Maria Lung Li (Clinical Oncology) won a UGC Theme- based Research Scheme project “ Translational Studies for Elucidating the Tumor Heterogeneity and Molecular Evolution in Metastatic Gastrointestinal Tract Cancers for Personalized Medicine” (HKD33.333M). • Professor Mary Ip Sau-man (Medicine), Dr Christopher Hui (HKU- Shenzhen Hospital) et al. obtained a tri-partite (ICL and NHLI, UK – HKU – HKUSZH) project grant of RMB18M from the Shenzhen Government for an Integrated Airways Disease Programme based at HKU-Shenzhen Hospital. • The Department of Medicine received a HKD20M research donation from Mr Hui Ming of Koon Wah Mirror Group and his family for research projects on the advancement of clinical diseases and health management. • Professor Kenneth Cheung Man-chee, Dr Wong Tak-man and their team (Orthopaedics and Traumatology) were granted by “Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen” on the development of spine surgery at The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital (RMB15M). List of Individual Achievements 2016-7