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10 Professional Recognition and Honours/Awards (Teams) • Professor Guan Yi (Public Health), Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, Professor Chen Honglin (Microbiology), Dr Maria Zhu Huachen, Dr Tommy Lam Tsan-yuk (Public Health), Dr Kelvin To Kai-wang (Microbiology) were awarded a National Grand Prize of the 2017 National Science and Technology Progress Award by the State Council in January 2018. • Professor Kwong Yok-lam and Professor Kumana Cyrus Rustam (Medicine) were awarded a Gold Medal in the 46th International Exhibition at Invention Geneva in April 2018. • Professor William Lu Weijia, Professor Frankie Leung Ka-li, Dr Sloan A Kulper and Dr Christian Fang Xinshuo (Orthopaedics and Traumatology) were awarded a Silver Medal in the 46th International Exhibition at Invention Geneva in April 2018. Professional Recognition and Honours/Awards (Individuals) • The following colleagues were honoured by the HKSAR Government in October 2018: • Professor the Hon Rosie Young Tse-tse (Medicine) was awarded a Grand Bauhinia Medal (GBM). • Professor Yuen Kwok-yung (Microbiology) was awarded a Gold Bauhinia Star (GBS). • Professor Cindy Lam Lo-kuen (Family Medicine and Primary Care) was awarded a Medal of Honour (MH). • Professor Wallace Lau Chak-sing (Medicine) was appointed a Justice of the Peace (JP). • The following colleagues received the University’s intramural Awards for Research Excellence in March 2018: • Professor Benjamin John Cowling and Professor Leo Poon Lit- man (Public Health) were awarded Outstanding Researcher Award. • Dr Walter Seto Wai-kay (Medicine) and Dr Carmen Wong Chak-lui (Pathology) were awarded Outstanding Young Researcher Award. • Dr Julian Alexander Tanner (Biomedical Sciences) was awarded Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award. • Dr Philip Beh Swan-lip (Pathology) was awarded Teaching Feedback Award (Faculty of Medicine). • Professor Danny Chan (Biomedical Sciences), Dr Brian Chung Hon-yin (Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine) and Dr Michael To Kai-tsun (Orthopaedics and Traumatology) were awarded Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award (Faculty of Medicine). • The following were conferred HKU Endowed Professorships in 2018: • Professor Ivan Hung Fan-ngai (Medicine) – Ru Chien and Helen Lieh Professorship in Health Sciences Pedagogy • Professor Michael Garnet Irwin (Anaesthesiology) – Daniel CK Yu Professorship in Anaesthesiology • Professor Khoo Ui-soon (Pathology) – Ada MF Chan Professorship in Oncological Pathology • Professor Anne Lee Wing-mui (Clinical Oncology) – Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Charity Foundation Professorship in Holistic Cancer Care • Professor Gabriel Matthew Leung (Public Health and LKS Faculty of Medicine) – Helen and Francis Zimmern Professorship in Population Health • Professor Gilberto Leung Ka-kit (Surgery) – Tsang Wing-Hing Professorship in Clinical Neuroscience • Pro fe s so r Fr ank i e Leung K a - l i (Or t hopaed i c s and Traumatology) – Tam Sai Kit Professorship in Orthopaedics and Traumatology • Professor Lin Chia-chin (Nursing) – Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Charity Foundation Professorship in Nursing • Professor Ian Wong Chi-kei (Pharmacology and Pharmacy) – Lo Shiu Kwan Kan Po Ling Professorship in Pharmacy • Professor Roberto Bruzzone (Public Health) was awarded the insignia of Knight of the Order of Merit of Italian Republic by Italian Consulate in June 2018. • Professor Godfrey Chan Chi-fung (Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine) received the Outstanding Asian Pediatrician Award 2018 by the Asia Pacific Pediatric Association in August 2018. • Dr Albert Chan Chi-yan (Surgery) was recognized as Dr Abdol and Mrs Joan Islami International Guest Scholar by the American College of Surgeons in 2017/8. • Dr Chan Lap-ki (Biomedical Sciences) was appointed as Senior Fellow by the Higher Education Academy (UK) in December 2017. • Dr Jimmy Chan Yu-wai (Surgery) was elected as Carlos Pellegrini Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 2017/8. • Professor Stephen Cheng Wing-keung (Surgery) was elected as Honorary Member of the American Surgical Association and Chairman of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area Vascular Surgery Alliance. • Professor Cheung Chi-wai (Anaesthesiology) was elected as President of the Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologist (2017-2019) in 2017; and received an Honorary Fellowship of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia in 2018. • Professor Kenneth Cheung Man-chee (Orthopaedics and Traumatology) received an Honorary Fellowship of the Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association in April 2018; and was awarded the Germán Ochoa Traveling Fellowship by AOSpine in May 2018. • Dr Jason Cheung Pui-yin (Orthopaedics and Traumatology) received the SICOT Research Award – Young Investigator Award in December 2017. • Professor Chow Shew-ping (Orthopaedics and Traumatology) was awarded HKU’s Honorary University Fellowship in October 2018. • Dr Christian Fang Xinshuo and Professor Frankie Leung Ka-li (Orthopaedics and Traumatology) received the SICOT Research Award – Clinical Science in December 2017. • Professor Richard Fielding (Public Health) received the International Psycho-Oncology Society Arthur M Sutherland Award by the 2018 World Congress of Psycho-Oncology in Hong Kong in November 2018. 2017-2018 Honour Roll