Medical Faculty News v25i1

Dr Agnes Lai Yuen-kwan （賴婉君） joined the School of Nursing as Assistant Professor in August 2019. Dr Lai is very pleased to serve as an Assistant Professor at her alma mater, where she completed both her Doctoral degree in Nursing and her Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health. Her research interests include respiratory medicine and preventive medicine, and she has conducted various research projects in clinical and community settings. Currently, Dr Lai is exploring the application of the lifestyle- integrated exercise in promoting holistic health and well-being. She looks forward to working with colleagues to promote clinical excellence and contributing to the School’s development and global reputation. Dr Frank Lam Yuk-fai （林旭輝） joined the Department of Medicine as Clinical Assistant Professor of Practice in July 2019. Dr Lam obtained his medical degree from HKUMed in 2006 and completed his specialist training in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Queen Mary Hospital in 2013. He received further training in inflammatory bowel disease at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA in 2018. Prior to joining the Faculty, he was an Associate Consultant of the Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital. Dr Heidi Ling Guang-sheng (寧珖聖) joined the School of Biomedical Sciences as Assistant Professor in November 2019. Dr Ling obtained her BSc and PhD at HKU and received her postdoctoral training at Imperial College London. Her laboratory employs the emerging technologies from the field of immunometabolism to assess the effects of sustained inflammation on exhausted CD8+T cell differentiation and population diversity in infection, cancer and autoimmunity. Dr May Leung Ka-mei (梁家美) joined the Department of Anaesthesiology as Clinical Assistant Professor of Practice in October 2019. She obtained her MBBS degree from HKUMed and completed her anaesthesia fellowship of The Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologists (HKCA) and The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) in Queen Mary Hospital. She spent six months as a Clinical Neuroanaesthesia Fellow in the Institute of Neurosciences and Spinal Unit of Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, UK in 2015. Her research interests are mainly in perioperative medicine, simulation training and clinical education. Dr Youngwon Kim joined the School of Public Health as Assistant Professor in January 2019. Dr Kim received his post-doctoral training in the Physical Activity Epidemiology programme at the MRC Epidemiology Unit of the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, UK. He earned his PhD in kinesiology with a minor in statistics from Iowa State University, USA, and his master’s degree in Exercise Science from the University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health, USA. Before joining HKUMed, Dr Kim worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Utah, USA. As a physical activity epidemiologist, Dr Kim has focused his research on understanding the preventive role of physical activity from an epidemiological perspective. Specifically, he has examined the associations of physical activity and fitness with various mortality, cardiovascular disease and cancer outcomes using data from the UK Biobank Project, an ongoing national cohort study of over 500,000 UK adults. His primary research interest lies in improving methodologies for conducting physical activity epidemiology research. Dr Clarence Nicholas Kotewall （羅博頤） joined the Department of Surgery as Clinical Assistant Professor of Practice in January 2019. Dr Kotewall graduated from HKUMed with an MBBS degree in 2010. He undertook his surgical training at Queen Mary Hospital and joined the Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation in 2018. He became a specialist in general surgery, a fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Surgery), and a fellow of the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong in 2017. His major research interests include management of hepatobiliary malignancy and liver transplantation. Dr Jeremy Kwok Sze-wai （郭思瑋） joined the Department of Ophthalmology as Clinical Assistant Professor in December 2018. Dr Kwok graduated with an MBBS degree from HKUMed. His subspecialty interests are in oculoplastics, community service projects and epidemiology studies. 88 People