State of the Faculty Address 2020

14 Human Capital Following the “Human Capital Masterplan” prepared by Executive Associate Dean Professor Vivian Lin last year, we have recently soft launched the “140 for 140” global recruitment drive. In part to refresh our talent pool arising from normal attrition that has been exacerbated by local and international tensions, and in part to aggressively expand as a result of increased intake of UGC manpower-planned clinical programmes as well as preparing for deeper engagement in the Greater Bay Area, the “140 for 140” campaign aims to recruit 140 new faculty members in addition to more than 100 replacement professoriate staff by HKUMed’s 140 th anniversary in 2027. This is being built on an excellent track record of recruiting the best minds in their respective fields. Since last October to date, 53 new professoriate colleagues have been recruited to HKUMed (41 academic track, 12 practice track; amongst whom 8 at the full professor rank). At the most senior levels, we are also looking to revitalise our disciplinary leadership cast. Specifically we will have reporting to duty new Heads in Emergency Medicine and Ophthalmology in the coming academic year; whereas headship searches for Chinese Medicine, Diagnostic Radiology, Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynaecology are making good progress. In the coming academic year, we will be conducting search exercises for six more headships or directorships. This forms a critical part of HKUMed’s renewal and succession planning. On in-house nurturing of talent, our Early Academic Career Development Mentorship Scheme has just been launched with an encouraging response where some 20 senior professoriate faculty members have enrolled to become mentors. In the coming year, we plan to put together a comprehensive orientation programme for new recruits as well as inaugurate an internal research fellowship scheme that mirrors the corresponding Croucher and RGC programmes. For junior would-be clinician-scientists, HKUMed recently launched a new Clinical Research Fellowship Scheme in January 2020 that aims at engaging young Hospital Authority doctors (with fewer than five years’ experience after completion of specialist training) to undergo research immersion, with a view to broadening outreach to our public sector junior