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52 People Dr Nicholas Fung Siu-kay (馮兆基) has joined the Department of Ophthalmology as Clinical Assistant Professor as of January 2019. Dr Fung obtained his BSc at Wesleyan University, CT, USA and MBChB from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He completed his ophthalmology fellowship FCOphthHK at the Queen Mary Hospital and sub- specialises in Vitreoretinal surgery. Dr Hiroyuki Hikichi （ 引地博之） has joined the School of Public Health as Research Assistant Professor as of October 2018. He received PhD (Psychology) from Tohoku University, Japan. Dr Hikichi was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. For the past three years, he has worked on a NIH-funded project, entitled “Impact of community social cohesion on functional status and recovery following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake & Tsunami (PI: Prof. Ichiro Kawachi).” Dr Hiroyuki Hikichi is also a member of the Hong Kong Family Cohort Project, through which he explores how family ties protect health. Dr Joshua Ho Wing-kei （何永 基） has joined the School of Biomedical Sciences as Associate Professor as of September 2018. Prior to joining HKU, Dr Ho was the Head of Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine Laboratory at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney, Australia. Dr Ho was trained as a bioinformatician at the University of Sydney and Harvard Medical School. His current research the Young Investigator Awards by the Hong Kong Infection Control Nurses’ Association. Professor Hextan Ngan Yuen-sheung （ 顏婉嫦） , Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, was awarded Award in recognition of Women Obstetrician / Gynecologists by International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) in October 2018. Dr Walter Seto Wai-kay （ 司徒偉基） , Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Medicine, was awarded the Emerging Leader Lectureship at the Asian Pacific Digestive Week by the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Foundation in November 2018. Dr Julian Alexander Tanner , Associate Professor of the School of Biomedical Sciences, and his team were awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award for their work Transdisciplinarity in Action: Creating Multiscalar Teaching and Learning Platforms in the Common Core – at the HKU Team Awards in November 2018. People Dr Michael To Kai-tsun （ 杜 峻） , Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, was awarded the Hong Kong Humanity Award 2018 by Hong Kong Red Cross in October 2018. Professor Tse Hung-fat （謝鴻發） , William M W Mong Professorship in Cardiology of the Department of Medicine, and his joint laboratory was rated as ‘good’ in the Fifth Assessment of the Hong Kong-Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Joint Laboratories by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in November 2018. Dr Kelvin Wang Man-ping （王文炳） , Assistant Professor of the School of Nursing, was awarded the Pi Lota Chapter Scholarship 2017/18 by the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing in May 2018; and a Health and Medical Research Fund Research Fellowship Scheme by The Food and Health Bureau in August 2018, respectively. Hello!