State of the Faculty Address 2020

20 Two new professorships, namely the Bingei and L & T Charitable Foundation Professorship in Dementia Research and the Jiaohua Su Professorship in Paediatric Oncology and Transplant, were endowed. HKU honorary graduate Professor Lord Ara Darzi of Imperial College has been appointed the inaugural Leong Che-Hung Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership from 2020 to 2023. Our scholarships also received some major new injections. S.K. Yee Medical Foundation donated HK$30 million to establish the S.K. Yee Medical Foundation Professor Sir David Todd Enrichment Scholarships, in memory of Sir David’s legacy. Aspiration Foundation pledged HK$10 million in support of the establishment of the Aspiration Foundation Scholarships and Grant Scheme. Sun Chieh Yeh Heart Foundation, through Professor CP Lau and other trustees, gave HK$7 million in support of the Sun Chieh Yeh Heart Foundation Student Enrichment Scholarship and Best Paper Award & Travelling Prize. In terms of local, national and global outreach, we have successfully consolidated gains from our institutional identity renewal exercise from last year. Specifically we are now proactively engaged on social media platforms including Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/LinkedIn to further promulgate and disseminate our ethos and achievements to the global and local scientific and medical communities. We have also recently broadened this effort to extend our mainland engagement via the WeChat/Weibo platforms. Finally but certainly not least, I should like to take this opportunity to thank President Barbara Lam and her Executive Committee for their selfless dedication to the work of the Medical Alumni Association (HKUMAA) during the past four years. They have been a source of unwavering loyalty and support, for which the alma mater very much remains in their debt. We also welcome the incoming President Dr Matthew Tsui, who is also Deputy Hospital Chief Executive of Queen Mary Hospital.