Bulletin Number Four 1986

Professor Rance P.L. Lee D r. Chun-yiu Cheng, Jack School of Public Health, Harvard University for a year. Professor Lee was appointed Lecturer in Soci ology at this University in 1968. He was promoted Senior Lecturer in 1975, Reader in 1980 ， and Pro fessor in 1984. Professor Lee's administrative ability has been well demonstrated since his early posts of Deputy Director (1969-72) and then Director (1973-82) of the Social Research Centre. His past and present responsibilities span across a wide spectrum of univer sity life. To cite but a few examples, he was Dean of Social Science (1980-83), Director of the Institute of Social Studies (1982-date), Chairman of the Univer sity Committee on Student Finance (1980-86 )， Director of Part-time Degree Studies and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Part-time Degree Pro grammes (1985-date), and member of the University Budget Committee (1983-date), the Academic Equip ment Grant Committee (1984-date), and the Univer sity Health Service Management Committee (1985- date). Amidst his busy schedule, Professor Lee has been actively involved in community service since 1975. Many government and non-government organ izations have benefited from Professor Lee's service as member of their advisory boards and committees, including the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Education Department, the Housing Authority, the Shatin District Board (formerly Shatin District Advisory Board), the Statistics Advisory Board of the Hong Kong Government, the United Christian Medical Service, and the Society for the Rehabilitation of Offenders. As an academic, Professor Lee will be judged by his contribution towards the advancement of scholarship. His publications include five books and about sixty articles, and he has participated in numerous international conferences. He has become an internationally known scholar, especially in the area of medical sociology. He has been invited to serve as editor/advisory editor of several regional and international journals, including International Review o f Modem Sociology (U.S.A.), Southeast Asian Journal o f Social Science (Singapore), Chinese Soci logy and Anthropology: A Quarterly Journal (U.S.A.), Social Science o f Medicine: An International Journal (U.K.). He is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Steering Board of the Research Committee on Medical Sociology, the International Sociology Association. Professor Lee is modest and humble. He stresses team spirit in research and in administration. He spares no opportunity to give credit to those who work with him. His re-election as Dean of Social Science thus reflects the extent to which he has won respect and trust from among his colleagues. —H.C. Kuan D r. Chun-yiu Cheng, Jack Seni or L e c t u r e r ， Dep a r tmen t o f Or t hopaed i c and Trauma t i c Surgery Dr. Chun-yiu Cheng, a Queen's College boy graduated MBBS with distinctions from the University of Hong Kong in 1976. He then joined the Government Medical and Health Department and has worked in both Queen Mary Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital specializing in the fields of Orthopaedics and Traumatic Surgery, and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. In 1982 he was awarded a Commonwealth Medical Fellowship which enabled him to continue with a year's training in the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford University and the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital in Edinburgh University. After returning to Hong Kong, he joined the newly established Department of Orthopaedic and Traumatic Surgery in this University as Lecturer in 1983 and was appointed Senior Lecturer in July 1986. He was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1980 and more recently in 1984 as Fellow in Ortho­ paedic Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Dr. Cheng is currently subspecialized in Children (Paediatric) Orthopaedics and Hand Surgery. He is also actively involved in major research projects like the study of post-burn hypertrophic scar in Hong Kong Chinese, congenital abnormalities of the limbs in Chinese, cerebral palsy children and other basic science research. 26 PROFILES