135TH ANNIVERSARY

DEAN'S LECTURE SERIES

The Dean of Medicine invited global luminaries to deliver a series of 135th Anniversary Dean’s Lectures. The series concluded on 12 December 2022.

Four leading experts in their fields gave enlightening talks on topics of their choosing, sharing their insights and wisdom with our students, researchers, medical practitioners and members of the general public.

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Date & Time:
12 December 2022 (Monday)
18:00
Hybrid
Producing a 21st Century Doctor

Although we continue to train our students in performing clinical skills which have been around for centuries; the way we will practice medicine in the future will be very different than how we have done this in the past. The pace of change will be even faster than we previously anticipated because of the Covid pandemic. In this talk, Professor Trudie E Roberts will highlight the revolutionary influence that technology is having on healthcare delivery and why we need a similar revolution in what we teach our students to equip them to embrace this new technological enable future and continue to provide the best medical care for patients.

Speaker:

Professor Trudie E Roberts
• Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds

Professor Roberts graduated in medicine from Manchester. In 2000 she was appointed Professor of Medical Education at the University of Leeds and was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2006. Professor Roberts has served as a council member of the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) London and Chair of the Association for the Study of Medical Education and also previously a Censor for the RCP London. She was President of the Association for Medical Education in Europe until August 2019.

Professor Roberts has been involved in technology and learning at the School of Medicine at Leeds. Professor Roberts was awarded the 2017 Asia Pacific Conference MILES Award for her contributions to medical education and academic medicine and an honorary doctorate in Medical Education by the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur. In 2019 she was part of the Topol review on the educational implications of the increasing influence of digital technologies on healthcare delivery. In June 2022 she was awarded a Doctores Honoris Causa University of Helsinki Finland and in August 2022 she was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for Medical Education in Europe.

Panelists:

Dr Rex Hui
Clinical Practitioner, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, HKUMed
Honorary Resident, Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital

Professor Gilberto Leung
Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), HKUMed
Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine, HKUMed

Professor Samuel Wong
Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Medicine, CUHK
Director, School of Public Health and Primary Care and Thomas Jing Centre for Mindfulness Research and Training, CUHK

Moderator: 

Professor CS Lau
Dean of Medicine, HKU

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Date & Time:
26 September 2022 (Monday)
18:00
Hybrid
Strategic Scientific and Technological Capacity Building in Clinical Medicine
臨床醫學戰略科技力量的構建與利用

The healthcare of China looks little like that of decades ago, physically, technologically and demographically. Rapid progress, combined with an aging population, changing burden of disease and risks have also brought new challenges. To rise to these challenges, we should strive to strategically build scientific and technological capacity for clinical medicine of our country, and ultimately achieve an integrated care system to enable health for all.

國家經歷幾十年的快速發展,如今的衞生健康事業與幾十年前已不可同日而語。但快速發展、人口老齡化、疾病負擔及風險因素的改變也帶來了新的挑戰。面對未來,我們必須勇往直前,致力加強國家臨床醫學戰略科技力量的構建與利用,建立更強大、更加綜合且富有韌性的衞生系統,以最終達致全民健康。

Speaker:

Professor Qiao Jie 喬杰教授
• Executive Vice President of Peking University
• President of Peking University Health Science Center
• President of Peking University Third Hospital

Professor Qiao is Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Vice President of China Association for Science and Technology, Executive Vice President of Peking University, President of Peking University Health Science Center, President of Peking University Third Hospital, Academician of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Honorary Fellow of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She is the Director of The National Clinical Research Center on Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBYGN) Disease, Vice President of Chinese Medical Association, President of China Women Doctors Association and etc.

For more than 30 years, Professor Qiao has been engaged in clinical, basic research and transformation related to maternity and reproductive health. She has led the team to achieve a number of technical and theoretical breakthroughs in infertility causes and clinical treatments, the protection and preservation of female fertility, the molecular mechanism of human gametogenesis and embryo development as well as developing new pre-implantation diagnosis methods, protecting the health of women and children throughout their life cycle. As the first or corresponding author, she published a number of achievements with international influence and won the Highlight Achievement Award in Science and Technology in 2014 and 2015, Top Ten Progress Awards in China’s Life Sciences in 2019, National Award for Progress in Science and Technology (Second Award), National Innovation Award and etc.

Read Professor Qiao’s biography

Panelists:

Dr Joshua Ho
Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, HKUMed

Professor Tse Hung Fat
Chairperson, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, HKUMed
Chief of Service and Chief of Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital

Professor Xu Ming
Vice Dean, Graduate School of Peking University
Vice Director of Institute of Vascular Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital

Moderator: 

Professor CS Lau
Dean of Medicine, HKU

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Date & Time:
23 June 2022 (Thursday)
18:00
Online
Innovating Our Way Out of COVID
創意領航 走出疫情

The pandemic has highlighted the need to re-consider how we look at health.

We need to explore how we move from a reactionary to pre-emptive approach that might be necessary to avert the trillions that Covid and other health problems cost the global economy. The pandemic also demonstrated how product, service and process innovation across the healthcare industry can, and is, happening quickly.

Professor Darzi will talk about some of the interesting innovations during the pandemic; and the emerging landscape that suggests we are ready to think differently about our health security.

新冠疫情讓我們重新檢視應如何看待醫療衞生。

我們需要探索如何從被動轉為採用先發制人的方法,以避免新冠病毒病及其他健康問題給全球經濟造成數以萬億元計的損失。新冠疫情亦展現整個醫療保健行業如何在短時間內推進產品、服務及程序上的創新。

德納姆達茲勳爵將分享疫情期間一些有趣的創新發現,以及表明我們已準備好以不同的方式思考衞生安全的新趨勢。

Speaker:

Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham
• Leong Che-Hung Distinguished Visiting Professor in Leadership
• Doctor of Science honoris causa, The University of Hong Kong
• Co-Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London

Professor Darzi is Co-Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery. He is a Consultant Surgeon at Imperial College NHS Trust and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. Professor Darzi is non-executive director of NHS England, Co-Director of the NHS Digital Academy and Chair of the Accelerated Access Collaborative.

His research focus is mainly in convergence science in areas of engineering, physical and data sciences including robotics, sensing, imaging and digital technologies.

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Panelists:

Professor Philip Chiu
Professor, Department of Surgery, CUHK
Director, Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center, AIR@InnoHK

Dr Christian Fang
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, School of Clinical Medicine, HKUMed

Ms Nisa Leung
Managing Partner, Qiming Venture Partners

Professor Mak Tak-wah
Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Clinical Medicine, HKUMed

Moderator:

Professor Gabriel M Leung
Dean of Medicine, HKU

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Date & Time:
12 May 2022 (Thursday)
18:00
Online
The Coming Era of Medicine, Health and Public Health
大醫學 · 大衞生 · 大健康

Medicine, health and public health go well beyond the people’s well-being with national security, economic and social implications. Despite their subtle differences, these concepts are interwoven with each other. Let us put into practice the ideas of Big Medicine, Big Health, Big Public Health and Population Health. Building an integrated, resilient and robust health system of health promotion, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation care to foster the quality development of the Chinese national medicine, health and public health.

醫學衞生健康事業關乎國家安全、經濟發展、社會文明和人民福祉。醫學、衞生、健康三者概念屬性不同,但交聯融通。踐行「大醫學,大衞生,大健康」理念,倡行「群醫學」觀念,構建「促、防、診、控、治、康」一體化醫學衞生體系,推動國家醫學衞生健康事業高質量發展。

Speaker:

Professor Wang Chen 王辰教授
• President of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College
• Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
• Director of the National Center for Respiratory Medicine
• Member of WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Tuberculosis
• Vice Chair of the Global Alliance Against Chronic Respiratory Diseases
• Board Member of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases
• Commissioner of The Lancet COVID-19 Commission

Professor Wang Chen is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, an international member of the US National Academy of Medicine, a foreign member of Academia Europaea, an ordinary member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a member of the CAMS Academic Advisory Committee.

Professor Wang has over 30 years of experience and specialties in pulmonary and critical care medicine. His primary areas of research include clinical and basic research for complex conditions in respiratory medicine, public health, and health policy. His research and policy interests also include medical education, health system reform and medical technology innovation system. Professor Wang has published more than 260 articles in international medical journals, including New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.

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Panelists:

Dr Bernhard Schwartländer
Global Health Envoy, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ms Priscilla Wong
Chairman, HKU Council

Professor Zheng Zhi-Jie
Director, China Country Office, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Moderator:

Professor Gabriel M Leung
Dean of Medicine, HKU

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