State of the Faculty Address 2020

30 ● Dr Foo Chi-chung (Surgery) was awarded Third Prize in Asian Pacific Surgical Video Contest in December 2019 at Asia Pacific Digestive Week held in India. ● Professor Feng Yibin (School of Chinese Medicine) was awarded Outstanding Contribution Award for his project “Development of new drugs and new treatment strategies for tumors and metabolic diseases from Chinese medicine” by China Society for the Promotion of Science and Technology Commercialization in 2020. ● Professor Jin Dong-yan (School of Biomedical Sciences) was elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in February 2020. ● Professor Khong Pek-lan (Diagnostic Radiology) was conferred Honorary Membership of the European Society of Radiology in July 2020. ● Professor Lai Ching-lung (Medicine) was awarded the 17th World Outstanding Chinese Award in 2020. ● Professor Cindy Lam Lo-kuen (Family Medicine and Primary Care) was appointed Chief Censor of the Hong Kong College of Family Physicians (2019-2020); and Mentor of the WONCA Advocacy Programme in Primary Mental Health Care for Young Family Doctors by WONCA Working Party for Mental Health in collaboration with Eugene S. Farley, Jr. Health Policy Centre, University of Colorado, USA (March- October 2020). ● Professor Wallace Lau Chak-sing (Medicine) was inducted into Honorary Fellowship by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in June 2019. ● Professor Lau Yu-lung (Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine) was appointed as Justice of Peace by HKSAR Government in October 2020; a member of the Technical Advisory Group for Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases by the World Health Organization (2019-2021); and Chair of the Scientific Committee on Vaccine Preventable Diseases (SCVPD) by HKSAR Government (2019-2022). ● Professor Anne Lee Wing-mui (Clinical Oncology) received the following recognitions: — Awarded Excellent Medical Personnel of Shenzhen Municipality in 2020.