Medical Faculty News v25i1

Building on the exceptionally positive response to the Roundtable Series with Movers and Shakers in Global Health, the School of Public Health continued the series by continuing to host interactive dialogues with public health luminaries from around the world. On January 16, 2019, a panel discussion with Professor Barry Bloom , Joan and Julius Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health and Dean Emeritus of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health was held. Attended by students of the HKUMed Master of Public Health programme and secondary school students aspiring to become future global health and development leaders, all of whom received useful career guidance and insight from Professor Bloom. Following this, on March 20, 2019, the School hosted another roundtable discussion. This time the featured guest was Professor Judith Mackay , Director of the Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control, Senior Advisor of Vital Strategies, Bloomberg Initiative, and Senior Policy Advisor to World Health Organization. Professor Gabriel Leung (梁卓偉) , Dean of Medicine gave a speech on the topic of Maximizing Human Potential in Urban Centres at the Beyond Global Cities Dialogue Series, organised by Hong Kong Life Sciences Society (HKLSS) on January 9, 2020. The talk and the Dean’s dialogue with Professor Sandro Galea, Dean of School of Public Health, Boston University, were timely and inspiring. Roundtable Series with Movers and Shakers in Global Health Maximizing Human Potential in Urban Areas The International Oncology Symposium on Advances in Immuno-Oncology, Radiation Oncology and Clinical Trials / the 3rd Sanming Project Conference / the 1st Shenzhen Workshop on Clinical Trial Design were held on June 14-15, 2019 at HKU-Shenzhen Hospital. This Symposium was organised by the Sino- American Network in Radiation Oncology (SANTRO), Clinical Oncology Centre of HKU-Shenzhen Hospital, Department of Clinical Oncology of HKUMed, Hong Kong College of Radiologists, Shenzhen Medical Doctor Association, Shenzhen Medical Association, and Radiation Oncology Centre, Princess Margaret Cancer The International Oncology Symposium on Advances in Immuno-Oncology, Radiation Oncology and Clinical Trials / the 3rd Sanming Project Conference / the 1st Shenzhen Workshop on Clinical Trial Design Centre, Toronto, Canada. With the theme of “Advances in Immuno- Oncology and Innovative Clinical Trials”, the Symposium encompassed a diversity of programmes ranging from training for clinical trial design and clinical research talents to immuno-oncology of multiple disciplines and specialties and data analysis. The event attracted 376 participants from around the world. 63 Medical Faculty News