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13 Medical Faculty News Gary Cheung Chi-hang has designed a programme that will meet his aim of understanding global trends and individual health-related issues. On the one hand, he is keen to understand the effects of globalisation and will pursue a minor in globalisation studies at Maastricht University in The Netherlands, a topic not on offer at HKU. On the other hand, he is personally interested in investigating the effects of exercise on health and will spend his second semester doing a self-initiated research project on the effect of exercise intervention As the great American writer Mark Twain once said: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” The Faculty looks forward to witnessing the transformation of our first cohort of students as they navigate their own journeys during this experimental Enrichment Year. I want to investigate inequality and poverty arising from globalisation and at the same time find out more about the evidence related to exercise and health. ─ Gary Cheung Chi-hang in treating co-morbid insomnia and anxiety in elderly patients in HKU’s School of Public Health. “I hope I can learn more about European culture and about the structural issues of global development and the inequalities and inter-dependencies that arise. I also want to learn more about exercise and health so I can use the evidence to encourage my patients in future to take more exercise. I also hope I can gain research skills and apply them in future research in hospitals,” he said. A Year Divided between Macro and Micro Perspectives