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WELCOME

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“ The commonality among all of them is that

they always gave it their all.”

- Professor Ng Ho-keung

吳浩強教授
Associate Dean (Education)

first got to know Angeline Lo (featured in this issue) a year before she
I came to CUHK. She was seconded by her secondary school to do a
summer attachment in our Department. We got to know each other really well and
have kept in touch throughout the years. I found out about her past medical history a
few years later and being a brain tumour specialist, I was very curious about the rare malignant
brain tumour she had overcome. I was struck by the fact that she never came across as being
bothered by that, at least on the surface.
A few months ago, I attended Angeline’s wedding party and I felt privileged to be the only non-GI-CUHK
professor there. And she invited all the paediatric oncologists and surgeons who had treated her too. I thought
to myself – I have known Angeline for so many years and did not even know she is a real Life Warrior!

In the summer of 2007, Dean Fok Tai-fai told me we would be admitting a paraplegic student called Jennifer Lui (another
alumna featured in this issue). Dr Fung Hong - the Hospital Chief Executive of PWH at the time - pledged all his
support. I was the only doubter then. Perhaps not the only one as HKU had told Jennifer that she would never become
a doctor. HKU and I were proven very wrong by Jennifer! During the next five or six years, I came to know firsthand
how Jennifer overcame all odds to study medicine and become a doctor. She would always insist that she would be in
the trenches like everyone else and we did our best to make sure she did just that. It was especially hard for her during
clinical rotations and internship. Jennifer should be going into the record books as one of the few people in the world
who have completed medical training as a paraplegic. One can only imagine the fire within the face of the apparent
impossibility.
Arora Namrata and Gary Ng (the other two featured alumni) also faced the same long and winding road and
their personal stories are just as inspirational.
The commonality among all of these Life Warriors is that they overcame hurdles and gave it their all. They always want
to take rather than be given. We should salute them all.