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HISTORY OF CUHK FACULTY OF MEDICINE
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INTRODUCTION OF FOUNDING

PROFESSOR DAVID DAVIES

rofessor David P Davies joined and development, as well as nutrition
Pthe newly established Faculty of and neonatology. In 1978, he was
Medicine of The Chinese University awarded the prestigious Guthrie Medal
of Hong Kong in 1984 and set up the by the British Paediatric Association
Department of Paediatrics. He had a in recognition for his work on growth.
string of impressive credentials to his
name before joining the CUHK Faculty Dr Michael Yung (MBChB 1986), a
team. He had studied medicine at the paediatrician in the private sector,
University of Wales in Cardiff in 1960 remembers Professor Davies as a
and three years later, obtained an “classical British gentleman”.
intercalated Bachelor of Science Degree “I cannot recall him ever scolding
in Human Anatomy (with Honours). anyone,” Dr Yung says.
He did his clinical studies at the Welsh
National School of Medicine until he Dr Yung was one of the first graduates Professor David Davies
graduated as an M.B. B.Ch. in 1966 with of the Faculty of Medicine. Immediately (Second from left)
distinctions in medicine and surgery. after his housemanship, he was
offered a job with the Department of a patient's signs and symptoms may
Professor Davies worked at several Paediatrics by Professor Davies. At the not be obvious initially, but if you follow
hospitals after his graduation before the patient closely, you will know the
returning to his alma mater in 1972 to time, there was only one vacancy. diagnosis,” he says. “Whether Professor
become a lecturer in Child Health. In “On my first day of work as a paediatrican, Davies is seeing patients or doing other
addition to his teaching and clinical duties Professor Davies told me I had got work, he would always look at the whole
as Senior Registrar, Professor Davies the job - not because of my academic picture.”
managed to conduct research in growth performance - but because of my working
and nutrition in low birth weight infants, performance during my housemanship,” With a foundation firmly set by Professor
for which he was awarded an MD in 1976. recounts Dr Yung. Davies, the Department of Paediatrics
at Prince of Wales Hospital has been
After that, he joined the University of Dr Yung says Professor Davies taught able to provide advanced patient-based
Leicester where he played a major role in him a lot of things. “The classical phrase diagnoses and treatments to the
setting up a neonatal unit at the Leicester I learned from him is…“Time will tell”. children in Hong Kong in the last 30-plus
Royal Infirmary Maternity Hospital. His years…and the Department’s reputation
research interests centred on growth “Professor Davies would teach us that continues to grow.

CONGRATULATIONS, DR SIU WING-TAI!

As an undergraduate, Dr Siu won many Kong Society of Upper Gastrointestinal
prizes for distinguished academic Surgeons and a Council member (and ex-
performance, including the City President) of the Hong Kong Society of
Lions Club Gold Medal - an award Minimal Access Surgery.
for best student in all professional
examinations. In 1988, he was awarded Dr Siu is currently Honorary Consultant
at Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital,
the Young Clinician Award at the 11th Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern
World Congress of Gastroenterology.
Hospital and Prince of Wales & New
In recognition for his academic excellence, Territories East Hospitals.
he was invited to be a member of Dr Siu has been pivotal in organising
e are proud to announce that International Reviewer Panel of Medical educational activities for medical alumni
Wour very own medical alumnus, Science Monitor, reviewer of The Alimentary and medical students - such as the
Dr Siu Wing-tai (MBChB 1989), has Pharmacology & Therapeutics and Indian “Medical Alumni Buddy Programme” -
been conferred Honorary Fellow Journal of Surgery, and is an editorial board since the inception of the CUHK Medical
of The Chinese University of Hong member of Surgical Practice (the official Alumni Association. His work ethic is
Kong. Dr Siu is the first CUHK medical journal of the College of Surgeons of Hong based on his philosophy of “just wanting
graduate to receive this honour. Kong). He is also President of the Hong to be a good doctor”.