State of the Faculty Address 2020

15 colleagues and bringing science closer and quicker to everyday patient care. Competition was fierce amongst six clinical departments who nominated candidates. The first awardee from the Department of Pathology, selected in May 2020, will commit at least half his time working on identifying novel genomic markers to improve breast cancer prognosis over the coming academic year. This summer we bade farewell to our long-serving Faculty Secretary, Ms Jeannie Tsang, who has taken on new responsibilities as Registrar for the University. From 1996 until 2008, she had shepherded the research, teaching and learning, and faculty development portfolios. She became Faculty Secretary when Professor Sum Lee took on the deanship. Since 2013 I had benefitted enormously from her encyclopaedic knowledge of the Faculty, her common sense and wisdom, as well as equanimity and fair-mindedness. At the Registry, she follows in the footsteps of her immediate predecessor, Mr Henry Wai, now retired, who had also once been HKUMed’s Faculty Secretary. Her successor is Ms Wing Ho, who takes the helm in the Faculty Office having previously served as School Secretary in Public Health. Jeannie is the second senior administrator who has recently gone on to bigger and better things from our ranks. Ms Maggie Cheuk, whom I have worked closely with since she joined HKUMed as an Executive Officer some two decades back, became Faculty Secretary at Social Sciences last year, returning to her home faculty of her undergraduate and postgraduate student days. HKUMed is indeed the “Shaolin Temple” of HKU.