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Clinical Oncology at the Royal College of Radiologists in 2011 and her fellowship of Hong Kong College of Radiologists in 2014. She obtained her Postgraduate Diploma in Advances in Medicine (CUHK) in 2011 and her Masters in Palliative Medicine (Cardiff University, UK) in 2017. Dr Chan is actively involved in the teaching of medical students and nurses. Her research interests include breast cancer, upper gastrointestinal cancer, thyroid and endocrine malignancy, gynaecological cancer brachytherapy, and geriatric oncology. She is now conducting clinical trials for breast cancer radiotherapy, quality of life studies for cancer survivors and researching systemic treatments for thyroid cancer. Dr Michael Cheung Ka-shing （張嘉盛） joined the Department of Medicine as Clinical Assistant Professor in March 2019. Dr Cheung graduated from HKUMed in 2008 and received his Fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology in 2015 from the Hong Kong College of Physicians. He obtained his Master of Public Health degree in 2016. Dr Cheung’s primary research interest is the application of Big Data analysis to various gastrointestinal diseases including gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, and gastrointestinal bleeding. Dr Huang Yuanhua (黃淵華) joined the School of Biomedical Sciences as Assistant Professor in December 2019. Prior to joining HKUMed, he was an EBPOD research fellow in the University of Cambridge and European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). Dr Huang obtained his Bachelor degree of Engineering in Automation from Tsinghua University and Doctoral degree in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh. His current research focuses on developing statistical machine learning methods and computational algorithms to uncover latent structure in heterogenous single-cell genomic data, including clonal somatic mutations, cell differentiation trajectory and disease cellular genetics. People Professor Vivian Lin Kwang- wen （林光汶） joined HKUMed as Executive Associate Dean in March 2019. Professor Lin also serves as the Professor of Public Health Practice. She has more than 30 years of experience in public health, with a variety of leading roles in policy and programme development, health services planning, research and teaching, and senior administration in complex organisations. Professor Lin was the Chair of Public Health from 2000-2013 at La Trobe University in Melbourne before joining the WHO as Director of Health Systems in the Western Pacific Regional Office from 2013-2018. Professor Lin has also worked at senior executive level in health policy in several Australian jurisdictions, including as Executive Officer of the National Public Health Partnership. Professor Lin earned her BA from Yale University and her MPH and DrPH from UC Berkeley. She was a recipient of the Jay S. Drotman Memorial Award from the American Public Health Association in 1982 which recognises promising young public health professionals. Dr Joseph Chan Yau-kei （陳佑祺） joined the Department of Ophthalmology as Assistant Professor in April 2019. Dr Chan obtained both his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees at HKU. He is an ocular bioengineer and his expertise lies in the design and testing of biomaterials and intraoperative tools for ophthalmic applications. He is also experienced in the design of delivery systems for ophthalmic drugs. He is currently exploring the use of all-aqueous immiscible liquid-liquid systems as platforms for tissue-engineering transplantable cell-based structures in the treatment of eye diseases. Dr Wendy Chan Wing-lok （陳穎樂） joined the Department of Clinical Oncology as Clinical Assistant Professor in April 2019. Dr Chan obtained her fellowship in Hello! 87 Medical Faculty News