Annual Report 2000–01

• Ten major conferences were organized during the year: — T h e First International Symposium on Normal and Abnormal Development of the Human Foetal Brain (Department of Anatomy) — T h e Second International Symposium on Circulating Nucleic Acids in Plasma and Serum, held in conjunction wit h the Hong Kong Cancer Institute's Sixth Annual Scientific Symposium (Department of Clinical Oncology and Department of Chemical Pathology) 一 Scientific meeting on 'New Insights into Women's Health: co-organized with the Hong Kong Epidemiological Association (Department of Community and Family Medicine) 一 The 15th International Workshop on Therapeutic Endoscopy (Departmentof Medicine and Therapeutics and Department of Surgery) — The Second Hong Kong Midwifery Conference, The Art and Science of Midwifery: Leading Practice Towards Excellence', co-organized with the Hong Kong Midwives Association (Department of Nursing) — T h e Third Hong Kong Nursing Symposium on Cancer Care 2001: Nurses' Impact on Cancer Care: Initiatives in Clinical Practice, co-organized with the Department of Clinical Oncology, Prince of Wales Hospital (Department of Nursing) — The Asia-Pacific Conference on Health Promotion (Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology) — T h e Sixth Congress of Asian Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, co- organized with the Asian Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery (Department of Surgery) 一 The Interactive Workshop on Prostate Diseases, co-organized with the Hong Kong Urological Association (Department of Surgery) — The Australian and New Zealand Society for Laboratory Animal Science Millennium Conference, co-organized with the Hong Kong Veterinary Association and the University of Hong Kong (Laboratory Animal Services Centre) 由 上 至 下 ︰ •醫學院二十周年晚宴 •臨床技術學習中心啟用典禮 •深造中心內設全港首個公共衛生學院 From top: • The 20th Anniversary Gala Dinner • The opening ceremony of the Clinical Skills Learning Centre • The Postgraduate Education Centre housing Hong Kong's first ever School ofPublic Health ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT 學術發展 27