March 1999 Newsletter
From the Editor
Happy Year of the Rabbit!
Lecture announcement
Professor Peter KT Pang, Program Director of the International Research
Program on Traditional Chinese and Natural Medicine, The University
of Hong Kong, will give a talk to the Department of Physiology and
our Institute on Wednesday, March 17 at 5.00 p.m. in the Lecture
Theatre 1, Li Shu Fan Building, 5 Sassoon Road, Hong Kong. His talk
will not be on Traditional Chinese Medicine, but on "Parathyroid
hypertension (hypercytocalcic) factor, a primary causative factor
for low renin hypertension".
Visitor
Professor Cecilia Oakley visited Hong Kong in February as an examiner
for the Royal College of Physicians. She met a number of us during
her stay and agreed to read and comment on our Area of Excellence
proposal.
ICSM on TV
Professors CP Lau and TM Wong had been interviewed by TVB about
calcium channel-blocking Chinese herbs for the evening news. We
shall arrange an interview on paediatric interventional cardiology
in May.
Research grants
The Grants and Fellowship Committee has considered research grant
applications and recommended the following awards:
- $150,000 to Prof T M Wong and Dr M L Fung. The research assistant
will be based in the Department of Physiology for one year.
- $50,000 to Dr A K T Chau for a project on dobutamine stress
echocardiography.
- Dr Karmin O would receive a grant of $85,000 for a collaborative
project with UBC.
Research Assistant Professor
The post of a Research Assistant Professor is available. The appointment
is for up to 2 years and the appointee should have a PhD in Medical
Science and would be expected to undertake a project involving collaboration
among members of the Institute. The candidate should have one or
more sponsors who are teachers in HKU. Enquiries and applications
to the Honorary Secretary, Dr Bernard Cheung, Department of Medicine,
Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong (tel: 28554768; fax: 28725828;
e-mail: mycheung@hkucc.hku.hk).
Next Annual Scientific Meeting
The next meeting is provisionally scheduled on 30th/31st October
1999 in the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Building. Survey of members
Please find enclosed a questionnaire which is sent to all members
to collect their views. I hope you can find time to complete this
and return to Dr Bernard Cheung, Department of Medicine, Queen Mary
Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Web site
We are in the process of establishing a web site. You will be notified
of our web address in due course.
Annual membership fee - REMINDER
If you have not already done so, please send a cheque ($100 for
non-student members, $50 for full-time students) to renew your membership.
Editor: Dr Bernard Cheung, Department
of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam, Hong Kong (tel: 28554768;
fax: 28725828; e-mail: mycheung@hkucc.hku.hk)
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