5 July 2023 – The Nottingham delegates, Director of Global Engagement for Medicine and Health Sciences and Professor of Oncology, Professor Nigel Mongan and the Strategic Delivery Lead, Global Engagement and Research, Mrs Suzie Green, visited The Chinese University of Hong Kong to strength the collaboration within the GAME network.
Representatives from CUHK included Prof Francis Chan (Dean, Faculty of Medicine), Prof Philip Chiu (Associate Dean, External Affairs), Prof Liona Poon (Chairperson, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology), Prof Margaret Ip (Chairman, Department of Microbiology), Prof Andrew Chan (Director, School of Biomedical Sciences), Prof Nathalie Wong (Director of Surgical Sciences, Division of Surgical Sciences, Department of Surgery), Prof Winnie Chu (Professor, Department of Imaging & Interventional Radiology), Prof Kwok Wai Lo (Professor, Department of Anatomical and Cellular Pathology), Prof Ronald Wang (Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology), Prof Xiao Yang (Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology), Dr Bonaventure Ip(Assistant Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics), Prof Stephen Chim (Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology), Prof Max Wang (Research Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology), Prof Edward Hui (Assistant Professor, Department of Imaging & Interventional Radiology), and Dr Wai Tsz Chang(Assistant Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery).
The visit started with an official welcome by Professor Dean Francis Chan and followed by a string of presentations from each school and department of CU Medicine which shared their current research priorities to foster new joint initiatives and encourage interdisciplinary research collaborations with University of Nottingham. The outcome of this visit was that two institutions expressed their interests to collaborate more closely with each other in developing exemplary health professional leaders of the future and undertaking impactful research.
We believe such academic exchanges to be beneficial in strengthening our partnership. We look forward to meeting again at the upcoming GAME annual meeting in November in Bologna.