• Professor James Ho Chung-man (Medicine, SClinMed) was appointed a member of the ‘Committee on Trust Fund for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)’ and a member of the ‘Expert Group on Drug Registration’. • Professor Herbert Kwok Wang-chun (Medicine, SClinMed) received the APSR-Hong Kong Lung Foundation Professor Wah-kit Lam Young Investigator Award in August 2024. • Professor Gary Lau Kui-kai (Medicine, SClinMed) received the Smart Ageing Leader Award from the Golden Age Foundation in August 2024. • Professor Paul Lee Chi-ho (Medicine, SClinMed) was granted the Richard Yu Lectureship from the Hong Kong College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians Joint Scientific Meeting 2023. • Professor Philip Li Hei (Medicine, SClinMed) received the Distinguished Research Paper Award for Young Investigators from the Hong Kong College of Physicians in July 2024. He also received the Richard Yu Lectureship from the Hong Kong College of Physicians in August 2024. • Professor Amy Ng Pui-pui (Family Medicine and Primary Care, SClinMed) received the Best Research Paper Award at the Hong Kong Primary Care Conference 2024 from the Hong Kong College of Family Physicians in July 2024. She was also awarded the Certificate of Excellence as a Distinguished Young Fellow by the Council of Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in September 2024. Intramural • The following Faculty members received the Faculty Clinical Service Excellence Awards (CSEA) 2024: – Professor Victor Lee Ho-fun (Clinical Oncology, SClinMed) – Professor Simon Sin Wai-ching (Critical Care Medicine Unit, SClinMed) – Professor Siddharth Sridhar (Microbiology, SClinMed) – Professor Ian Wong Yu-hong (Surgery, SClinMed) • Professor Will Chan Yap-hang (Medicine, SClinMed) was bestowed the Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Fellowship (2024-2025) in July 2024. • Professor Chang Wing-chung (Psychiatry, SClinMed) was awarded the HKUMed Research Fellowship for Clinical Academics in September 2024. • Professor Alex K Gearin (Medical Ethics & Humanities Unit, SClinMed) received the HKU Overseas Fellowship Award (2024-2025) in June 2024. • Professor Huang Jiandong (Biomedical Sciences) won the HKU TEC MedTech Hackathon 2024 Award in June 2024. • Professor Spring Kong Feng-ming (Clinical Oncology, SClinMed) was conferred the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Charity Foundation Professorship in Holistic Cancer Care in September 2024. • Professor Walter Seto Wai-kay (Medicine, SClinMed) was named Simon KY Lee Professor in Gastroenterology in September 2024. • Professor Kenneth Wong Kak-yuen (Surgery, SClinMed) was conferred the Li Shu-pui Professorship in Surgery in October 2024. • Professor Xu Aimin (Medicine, SClinMed) was named Rosie TT Young Professor in Endocrinology and Metabolism in September 2024. 18
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