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INTRODUCTION

Professor Gerald CHOA
Founding Dean
Faculty of Medicine
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The name — Professor Gerald CHOA — is synonymous with the Faculty
of Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His former
students — many now holding high ranking positions in the private and
public sectors — remember him fondly and say he had a deeply “caring
heart”.

But more importantly, the late Professor CHOA is remembered for
being instrumental in setting up the Faculty of Medicine in 1981, five
years after he joined CUHK. He was its Founding Dean and Chair
Professor of Administrative Medicine. He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor of
the University from 1 March 1979 to 28 February 1981.

Professor CHOA guided every aspect of planning for the Faculty of
Medicine. He established a teaching hospital — what was to become the Prince of Wales Hospital; developed the curriculum
and recruited academic and research staff. In 1986, he proudly witnessed the graduation of the Faculty’s first batch of
medical graduates. From then on, there was no stopping the Faculty from evolving into a world-renowned teaching institute
of medicine.

Professor CHOA had great expectations of CUHK’s medical graduates — eliciting no less than a high degree of professional
competency from them and a commitment to the highest ethical and moral standards.

Professor CHOA received his MBBS and MD degrees from The University of Hong Kong, and was a Fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP London), a Fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCP Edinburgh) and a Fellow
of the Faculty of Community Medicine (FFCM).

Gerald Choa Memorial Fund

To ensure that Professor Gerald CHOA’s rich legacy lives on, the
Gerald Choa Memorial Fund was established in 2013, with the following
objectives:

To honour his achievements

To cultivate a “support-by-giving” culture among our graduates

To strengthen our heritage and to foster close ties between alumni
and medical students

To support activities benefitting both students and the community at
large
First batch of MBChB graduates (1986)

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