Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine

{{Short description|Public medical faculty in Hong Kong}}

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{{Use Hong Kong English|date=March 2022}}

{{Infobox university

| native_name = {{lang|yue-HK|香港大學李嘉誠醫學院}}

| name = University of Hong Kong
Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine

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| established = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1887|10|1}} (as Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese)

{{Start date and age|df=yes|1911}} (as Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong)

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| president = Xiang Zhang

| dean = Lau Chak-sing

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| address = 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam

| city = Hong Kong

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| undergrad = 2,900 (2021){{Cite web

|url=http://med.hku.hk/en/About-HKUMed

|title=About HKUMed

|website=LKS Faculty of Medicine {{!}} The University of Hong Kong

|location=Hong Kong

|date=2021

|access-date=2020-04-23

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| postgrad = 1,700 (2021)

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| motto = Strength From Diversity

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| affiliations = Queen Mary Hospital
Ruttonjee Hospital
Kowloon Hospital
Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital
Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital

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{{Infobox Chinese

| order = ts

| t = 香港大學李嘉誠醫學院

| s = 香港大学李嘉诚医学院

| j = hoeng1 gong2 daai6 hok6 lei5 gaa1 sing4 ji1 hok6 jyun6*2

| p = Xiānggǎng Dàxué Lǐ Jiāchéng Yīxuéyuàn

| l = The University of Hong Kong Li Ka-shing Medical School

| altname = HKUMed

| t2 = 港大醫學院

| s2 = 港大医学院

| j2 = gong2 daai6 ji1 hok6 jyun6*2

| p2 = Gǎng Dà Yīxuéyuàn

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The University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine{{Refn|Formerly named

  • Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (1887–1907)
  • Hong Kong College of Medicine (1907–1910)
  • Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (1910–2005)|group=lower-alpha}} (branded as HKUMed) is the medical school of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), a public research university. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, one of the oldest western medical schools in the Asia–Pacific region, and which served as the base for HKU's founding in 1910.

The faculty consists of several schools and departments that provide tertiary programmes in medicine, nursing, pharmacy and Chinese medicine. English is the medium of instruction for all classes, while Chinese is retained for the teaching of Chinese medicine. It is located several kilometres away from the university's main campus and is near the Queen Mary Hospital, its main teaching facility and research base. The faculty was renamed after businessman and philanthropist Li Ka-shing in 2006 following a {{Currency|1 billion|HKD|passthrough=yes|linked=yes}} donation.

HKUMed is the older of the two medical faculties in Hong Kong, the other one being the Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Together, they are the sole two tertiary institutions offering medical and pharmacy education and research in the city.

History

The London Missionary Society founded the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese in 1887.{{cite book

|author=Dafydd Emrys Evans

|title=Constancy of Purpose: An Account of the Foundation and History of the Hong Kong College of Medicine and the Faculty of Medicine of The University of Hong Kong, 1887-1987

|year=1987

|publisher=Hong Kong University Press

|location=Hong Kong

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iJnW0ZtogdwC

|isbn=9789622091948

}} Kai Ho, James Cantlie, Patrick Manson and G. P. Jordan were the founding professionals.{{cite web |url=http://hkbma.homestead.com/history.html |title=History |access-date=2014-08-10 |publisher=British Medical Association (Hong Kong Branch) }} The college is described as "one of the oldest western medical schools in the Far East".{{Citation needed|date=January 2025}} Important initiatives{{clarify|date=August 2013}} were led by notable members such as Patrick Manson, an experienced medical practitioner who made his name in the field of tropical medicine. Having served in the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs as a medical officer for 18 years, he took up private practice in Hong Kong from 1883 to 1889. Sir Kai Ho Kai was also a member of the Chinese elite in colonial Hong Kong.{{Cite book

|author=Anthony Sweeting

|date=May 1990

|title=Education in Hong Kong, pre-1841 to 1941: Fact and opinion (Out of Print)

|publisher=Hong Kong University Press

|location=Hong Kong

|url=https://hkupress.hku.hk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1253

|access-date=5 January 2025

|ISBN=978-962-209-258-7

}} He played a major role in convincing the Chinese population that western medicine was acceptable in a culture that had been largely dominated by traditional Chinese medicine.

In 1907, the school was renamed the Hong Kong College of Medicine.{{Cite book

|title= Growing with Hong Kong: The University and Its Graduates—The First 90 Years

|publisher=Hong Kong University Press

|location=Hong Kong

|date=October 2002

|ISBN=978-962-209-613-4

|url=https://hkupress.hku.hk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1326

|access-date=29 December 2024

}} In 1908, it was authorised to sign death certificates.Starling, Arthur. Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences Society. Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences Society Staff. (2006). Hong Kong University. {{ISBN|962-209-805-3}} The nucleus of the school would later create the foundation for the new University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 1910. Chinese society at the time was not quite ready for western medicine; as a result, many of the college's medical graduates had difficulty finding employment.

The college was merged to become the medical school of HKU in 1911,{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}} one of the university's first faculties.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}} The establishment of the Queen Mary Hospital in 1937 brought the faculty a major clinical teaching and research base.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}} However, the Japanese occupation of the city during the Second World War disrupted teaching, and many staff and students were imprisoned.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}} Following the end of the war, it reopened and soon became an important training centre of clinicians in the city, with many departments and schools in healthcare and medical sciences opened.

Important milestones of the medical school include being the world's first team to successfully identify the SARS coronavirus, the causative agent of the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak, on 21 March 2003.{{cite web|url=https://www.who.int/csr/don/2003_03_27b/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030411125517/http://www.who.int/csr/don/2003_03_27b/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 April 2003|title= WHO-SARS Update 12 (SARS virus close to conclusive identification, new tests for rapid diagnosis ready soon)|quote=Scientists at Hong Kong University had previously announced, on 21 March, the isolation of a new virus that was strongly suspected to be the causative agent of SARS. (5th paragraph)}} This was followed by the visit of Wen Jiabao to the faculty acknowledging the institute's contribution, the first time a premier of China had visited a university in Hong Kong. Moreover, a State Key laboratory for emerging infectious diseases was established,{{When|date=June 2024}} the first of its kind located outside mainland China. The faculty launched a Bachelor of Pharmacy programme in 2008, being the second and of two institutions in the city offering pharmacy education.{{cite web

|title=HKU {{!}} Medicine {{!}} Passion for Knowledge Devotion to Care

|url=http://www.med.hku.hk/v1/media/hku_facmed_brochure.pdf

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905001537/http://www.med.hku.hk/v1/media/hku_facmed_brochure.pdf

|archive-date=2014-09-05

|access-date=29 December 2024

|publisher=The University of Hong Kong {{!}} Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine

|location=Hong Kong

}}

Programmes offered

As of 2024, HKUMed offers seven undergraduate degree programmes:{{Cite web |title=HKUMed Undergraduate Admissions |url=https://hkumed-ugadmissions.hku.hk/home/#_UndergraduateProgrammes

|website=Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine

|location=Hong Kong

}}

  • Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
  • Bachelor of Nursing
  • Bachelor of Chinese Medicine
  • Bachelor of Pharmacy
  • Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Global Health Development
  • Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences
  • Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics

Medical graduates are awarded the M.B., B.S.; the equivalent degree offered by the faculty of medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is the M.B., Ch.B. Both degrees are based on the UK model for medical degrees. HKUMed also provides various postgraduate programmes, including postgraduate diplomas, master's and doctoral degrees.

In July 2024, HKUMed revealed plans to establish a graduate medical programme, which would cover the content of the normal six-year undergraduate curriculum within a study period of four years. The first cohort could be admitted as early as 2025, dependent on approval by local health authorities. The faculty also expressed confidence that it could increase its annual intake of medical students from 295 to 400 students, amid Hong Kong's long-standing shortage of doctors.{{Cite web

|last=Hoi-ying

|first=Lo

|date=2024-07-13

|title=University of Hong Kong plans to offer new graduate-entry medicine programme

|url=https://scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3270361/university-hong-kong-plans-offer-new-graduate-entry-medicine-programme

|access-date=2024-08-12

|website=South China Morning Post

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en

}} The announcement is seen as efforts to compete for talent,{{Cite web |last=Li |first=Ambrose |date=2024-07-15 |title=Chinese University of Hong Kong aims to launch new medicine graduate programme |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3270557/chinese-university-hong-kong-aims-launch-new-medicine-graduate-programme |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=South China Morning Post

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en}} and had followed news a few days earlier that the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology was in talks with Imperial College London about establishing and jointly operating the city's third medical school, which would also admit students with an undergraduate degree.{{Cite web

|last=Cheung

|first=Elizabeth

|date=2024-07-08

|title=Exclusive {{!}} HKUST 'in talks' with Imperial College London to set up third Hong Kong medical school

|url=https://scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3269603/hkust-talks-imperial-college-london-set-third-hong-kong-medical-school

|access-date=2024-08-12

|website=South China Morning Post

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en}} Two days after HKUMed's announcement, CUHK's medical school similarly announced plans to introduce a graduate medical programme.

Schools and departments

HKUMed is mainly organised into five schools and one department, {{As of|2024|August|lc=y}}:{{Cite web

|title=Departments and Schools

|url=https://med.hku.hk/en/depts/teaching

|access-date=2024-08-26

|website=HKUMed

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en}}

  • School of Biomedical Sciences
  • School of Chinese Medicine
  • School of Clinical Medicine
  • School of Nursing
  • School of Public Health
  • Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy

The School of Clinical Medicine further consists of 14 departments, {{As of|2024|August|lc=y}}:{{Cite web

|title=Departments and Units

|url=https://www.sclinmed.hku.hk/en/Departments-and-Units

|website=HKUMed {{!}} School of Clinical Medicine

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en

|date=2024-08-26

|access-date=2024-08-26

}}{{div col|colwidth=22em}}

  • Anaesthesiology
  • Clinical Oncology
  • Diagnostic Radiology
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Family Medicine and Primary Care
  • Medicine
  • Microbiology
  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopaedics and Traumatology
  • Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
  • Pathology
  • Psychiatry
  • Surgery{{div col end}}

Controversies

= Criticism of Prince of Wales hospital by dean during SARS epidemic =

During the 2003 SARS outbreak in Hong Kong, the faculty's dean, Lam Shiu-kum, publicly criticised the Prince of Wales Hospital (PWH) and its associated medical school (under the Chinese University of Hong Kong) for their alleged poor handling of the outbreak. As PWH was at the centre of the outbreak, Lam wrote in a letter to the South China Morning Post (SCMP):{{Cite news

|author=More than 100 professors and doctors of the Prince of Wales Hospital and its SARS team

|title=The virus in our worst health crisis is still an enigma

|date=2003-04-15

|website=South China Morning Post

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en

|url=https://scmp.com/article/412521/virus-our-worst-health-crisis-still-enigma

|access-date=30 December 2024

|url-status=

}}{{cite news

|date=15 April 2003

|title=HK doctors in the spotlight

|work=BBC News

|location=London, UK

|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2950127.stm

|access-date=30 December 2024

|url-status=

}}

{{Blockquote|text="Why was the index of suspicion so low in Hong Kong, the acuity of judgment so raw, the sense of infection control so weak and the mechanism for instituting isolation so rusty? It took the Prince of Wales two weeks to decide to ban visitors to its wards."}}

In response via a letter to the SCMP, more than one hundred doctors from the PWH refuted his claims and called for unity. They wrote that they found it "objectionable and distressing to be subjected to such accusations" and that such criticisms had been "very damaging to the morale of the frontline staff" at the hospital, adding that they had been under extreme stress for more than four weeks.

Lo Wing-lok, president of the Hong Kong Medical Association, said that "this type of mud-slinging was unhelpful" and that "we did not have the benefit of hindsight when we were facing this catastrophe". Similarly, Ho Shiu-wei, chief executive of the Hospital Authority, said that Lam's accusations were easy in hindsight.{{Cite web

|last=Ho

|first=William

|date=2003-04-11

|title=Why medical schools must work together in the Sars crisis

|url=https://scmp.com/article/412117/why-medical-schools-must-work-together-sars-crisis

|url-status=

|access-date=2025-01-01

|website=South China Morning Post

|location=Hong Kong

}} Both attributed the criticisms to the long-standing rivalry between the two medical schools and their teaching hospitals, and called for solidarity and collaboration.

=Renaming of the faculty=

As one of the founding faculties of The University of Hong Kong, the Faculty of Medicine changed to its present name after securing a pledge of a HK$1 billion donation from businessman and philanthropist Li Ka-shing under the funding of Li Ka Shing Foundation. The renaming was objected to by many students and prominent alumni of the faculty.{{cite web

|last=Parry

|first=Jane

|date=23 May 2005

|title=Concern over renaming at HKU

|url=https://the-scientist.com/news-analysis/concern-over-renaming-at-hku-48738

|access-date=30 December 2024

|website=The Scientist

|location=Ontario, Canada

}}{{Cite web

|date=24 May 2005

|title=港大校友斥徐立之賣醫學院「神主牌」

|trans-title=University of Hong Kong alumni criticise Tsui Lap-chee for selling out [the] medical school's "spirit tablet"

|website=Hong Kong Inmedia

|location=Hong Kong

|language=zh

|access-date=30 December 2024

|url=http://inmediahk.net/node/33750

|url-status=

}} Despite this, the university officially renamed the faculty on 1 January 2006.

= Patient billing controversy and jailing of former dean =

In January 2007, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) set up an inquiry committee after receiving complaints "relating to certain billing arrangements in respect of private patients of a clinical department of the university".{{Cite web

|last1=Ann

|first1=Mary

|last2=Benitez

|first2=Mary Ann

|date=2007-03-09

|title=Committee of inquiry set up after complaints

|url=https://scmp.com/article/584279/committee-inquiry-set-after-complaints

|url-status=live

|access-date=2024-06-11

|website=South China Morning Post

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en

}} In March amid the investigation, the faculty's dean, Lam Shiu-kum, abruptly resigned, citing "personal reasons".{{Cite web

|last1=Lee

|first1=Ella

|last2=Ann

|first2=Mary

|last3=Benitez

|first3=Mary Ann

|date=2007-03-08

|title=HKU dean of medicine quits amid fees probe

|website=South China Morning Post

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en

|url=https://www.scmp.com/article/584189/hku-dean-medicine-quits-amid-fees-probe

|access-date=30 December 2024

|url-status=

}} HKU acknowledged that Lam's resignation was a "highly unusual" event.{{Citation needed|date=August 2013}}

HKU was questioned by legislator Kwok Ka-ki on why it had earned only slightly more at its Queen Mary Hospital (QMH) than the Chinese University of Hong Kong did at their Prince of Wales Hospital, despite conducting three times more operations a year.{{Cite web

|last1=Goh

|first1=Lilian

|last2=Ann

|first2=Mary

|last3=Benitez

|first3=Mary Ann

|date=2007-03-29

|title=Former HKU medical dean breaks silence

|website=South China Morning Post

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en

|url=https://scmp.com/article/586824/former-hku-medical-dean-breaks-silence

|access-date=30 December 2024

|url-status=

}} In an article published by the South China Morning Post in March 2007, an anonymous medical source familiar with the faculty's operation said that there had long been a lack of monitoring and transparency concerning the faculty's billing of private services. The source was reported saying, "[f]or example, the surgical department alone can make more than HK$10 million a year. But for years frontline doctors are not told where the money goes, it is a black hole".

In September 2009, Lam was sentenced to 25 months in jail after pleading guilty to misconduct in public office. Between 2003 and 2007, Lam had induced 12 of his patients at QMH to pay what appeared to be medical bills issued by the university and the hospital, but were payable to Gastrointestinal Research, a company wholly owned by Lam. The payments totalled HK$130,000.{{Cite journal

|last=Parry

|first=Jane

|date=8 September 2009

|title=University of Hong Kong's former dean of medicine is jailed

|journal=The BMJ

|location=UK

|volume=339

|page=b3668

|doi=10.1136/bmj.b3668

|s2cid=71593988

|url=http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/339/sep08_1/b3668

|access-date=2010-05-09

}}{{Cite web

|date=2009-09-04

|title=Ex-HKU medical school dean jailed for 25 months

|website=South China Morning Post

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en

|url=https://scmp.com/article/691482/ex-hku-medical-school-dean-jailed-25-months

|access-date=30 December 2024

|url-status=

}} Lam had also asked three patients to make HK$3.8{{Nbsp}}million in donations to medical research, which he then pocketed.{{Cite news

|last=Nickkita

|first=Lau

|date=4 September 2009

|title=Bitter pill

|url=http://thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=11&art_id=87401&sid=25252536&con_type=3&d_str=20090904&fc=8

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629171309/http://thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=11&art_id=87401&sid=25252536&con_type=3&d_str=20090904&fc=8

|archive-date=29 June 2011

|access-date=9 May 2010

|newspaper=The Standard

|location=Hong Kong

}} In passing sentence, the judge said that although the patients' well-being was not compromised, Lam had seriously breached the trust of both the faculty and his patients, and had attempted to cover up his misconduct. The judge said he had taken into account 22 letters that spoke highly of Lam's character and contributions to medicine, including one from former Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa,{{Cite web

|date=2009-09-02

|title=HKU dean admits inducing patients to donate HK$4m to firm

|website=South China Morning Post

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en

|url=https://scmp.com/article/691227/hku-dean-admits-inducing-patients-donate-hk4m-firm

|access-date=30 December 2024

|url-status=

}} whom Lam was personal physician for. Setting a starting point of five years jail, the judge deducted 35 months for Lam's guilty plea, his good character, and the fact that he had repaid all the money, leaving 25 months. Prosecutors were advised by the secretary of justice not to proceed with 33 charges of fraud and theft, which were thus left on file.

After the scandal, HKU introduced 16 measures to eliminate loopholes concerning the billing of private patients by faculty staff. In August 2010, Lam was released early from prison after serving 11 months of his 25-month sentence, but was required to live under supervision in a correctional services hostel for six months.{{Cite web

|last=Lee

|first=Ella

|date=2010-08-11

|title=Ex-medical dean freed early from prison term

|website=South China Morning Post

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en

|url=https://scmp.com/article/721835/ex-medical-dean-freed-early-prison-term

|access-date=30 December 2024

|url-status=

}}

Notable alumni

{{Incomplete list|date=August 2024}}

Hong Kong College of Medicine

|title=Citation {{!}} 55th Congregation (1961) {{!}} LI Shu Fan

|url=https://hku.hk/hongrads/citations/mb-chb-frcs-shu-fan-li-li-shu-fan

|website=Honorary Degrees Congregation {{!}} The University of Hong Kong

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en

|access-date=30 December 2024

}}

Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong

|author=Yuen Kwok-Yung

|title=My Life in Medicine: A Hong Kong Journey

|url=https://hkupress.hku.hk/My_Life_in_Medicine_PB

|ISBN=978-988-8842-94-0

|publisher=Hong Kong University Press

|location=Hong Kong

|access-date=6 January 2025

|date=July 2024

}}{{Cite web

|last=Cheung

|first=Elizabeth

|date=2024-06-17

|title=Hong Kong's Yuen Kwok-yung shares his journey to becoming top disease expert in new book

|url=https://scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3266807/hong-kongs-yuen-kwok-yung-shares-his-journey-becoming-top-disease-expert-new-book

|access-date=2024-08-14

|website=South China Morning Post

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en

}}

  • Paul Tam{{Dash}}Hong Kong doctor{{Cite web

|title=Biography

|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6231-3035

|access-date=4 January 2025

|website=ORCiD

}}

|title=Ko Wing-man

|url=https://www.hkbu.edu.hk/en/about/honorary-doctorates-and-honorary-university-fellows/ko-wing-man.html

|access-date=2024-11-30

|website=Hong Kong Baptist University

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en

}}

  • Chuang Shuk-kwan – Hong Kong public health doctor and government official{{Cite web

|title=Citation: Dr. CHUANG Shuk-kwan, JP Doctor of Social Sciences, honoris causa

|url=https://newsletter.hksyu.edu/en/citation-dr-chuang-shuk-kwan-jp-doctor-of-social-sciences-honoris-causa

|date=Spring 2024

|website=Shue Yan Newsletter {{!}} Hong Kong Shue Yan University

|location=Hong Kong

|access-date=2024-11-30

|language=en-US

}}

|title=Appointment of Director of Health (with photo)

|url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/202109/17/P2021091700298.htm

|date=17 September 2021

|access-date=11 January 2025

|website=The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region {{!}} Press Releases

|location=Hong Kong

}}

  • Joseph Sung – Hong Kong physician and gastroenterologist{{Cite web

|title=Prof SUNG Jao Yiu, Joseph

|url=https://cuhkmc.hk/professionals/dr-joseph-sung-jao-yiu

|access-date=2024-12-01

|website=CUHK {{!}} Medical Centre

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en}}

  • Ip Wing-Yuk – Hong Kong orthopaedic surgeon and former president of the "Hong Kong, China Weightlifting and Powerlifting Association"{{Cite web

|title=楊潤雄:葉永玉連續發生同樣錯誤不可接受 冀港協有長遠解決方案

|url=https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/ch/component/k2/1752982-20240513.htm

|date=13 May 2024

|access-date=2024-12-01

|website=RTHK

|location=Hong Kong

|language=Traditional Chinese

}}{{Cite web

|title=Dr IP Wing Yuk Josephine 葉永玉 醫生

|url=https://gleneagles.hk/tc/doctors/ip-wing-yuk-josephine

|access-date=2024-12-01

|website=Gleneagles Hospital 港怡醫院

|location=Hong Kong

|language=Traditional Chinese

}}

  • Fung Hong – former cluster chief executive of the New Territories East Cluster, and hospital chief executive of Prince of Wales Hospital{{Cite web |title=Prof. Hong FUNG 馮康教授 {{!}} CUHK JCSPHPC {{!}} Hong Kong |url=https://sphpc.cuhk.edu.hk/hongfung |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=SPHPC

|location=Hong Kong

|language=en}}

  • Dennis Lam – Hong Kong ophthalmologist, businessman, and politician{{Cite web

|title=The Power List 2018 {{!}} Dennis Lam

|url=https://theophthalmologist.com/power-list/2018/18-dennis-lam

|date=2018

|access-date=16 January 2025

|website=The Ophthalmologist

|location=London, UK

|language=en

}}

|title=Biography {{!}} 173rd Congregation (2006) {{!}} The Hon LEONG Che Hung {{!}} Doctor of Science {{!}} honoris causa

|url=https://hku.hk/hongrads/graduates/gbs-obe-mbbs-frcs-frcs-fracsed-facs-famm-fcshk-fhkam-surgery-jp-degree-of-doctor-of-science-che-hung-leong-the-hon-leong-che-hung

|access-date=17 January 2025

|website=Honorary Degrees Congregation {{!}} The University of Hong Kong

|location=Hong Kong

}}{{Cite web

|title=About Immuno Cure {{!}} Advisory Board {{!}} Dr. Che Hung LEONG, Edward {{!}} GBM, GBS, OBE, JP {{!}} Chairman of Advisory Board

|url=https://immunocure.hk/en/about_immuno_cure/staff/3

|date=2025

|access-date=17 January 2025

|website=Immuno Cure

|location=Hong Kong

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  • Raymond Wu – Hong Kong politician and doctor{{Cite web |title=Government statement on Passing of Dr Raymond Wu |url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200610/03/P200610030226.htm |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=www.info.gov.hk

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Notes

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