Bulletin Autumn 1988

Profiles Professor Teik E. Oh Professor, Department o f Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Professor Oh, forty-three, was raised in Brisbane, Australia, where he studied medicine at King's College, Queensland University, graduating MB BS in December 1969. A fter his residency years, he trained in anaesthesia in Australian and London teaching hospitals. He returned to Australia and undertook a fellowship in clinical pharmacology in the University o f Western Australia in 1975. Professor Oh then specialized in the emerging field o f intensive care. In the latter half o f that decade, he contributed to the development o f intensive care as a specialty in Australasia, in areas o f clinical research, peer review, organization o f ICUs, training, and fellowship exam inations in intensive care. Prior to coming to The Chinese University, he was head o f the department o f intensive care at the Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre, Perth, Western Australia, for the past eleven years. Professor Oh is a member o f executive and research committees and editorial boards o f a number o f professional societies, organizations and medical journals. He still serves on the National Health and Medical Research Council o f Australia in the panel o f anaesthesia and intensive care. Professor Oh is a fellow o f the College o f Anaesthetists o f England, and also o f the faculty o f anaesthetists o f the Royal Australasian College o f Surgeons (FFARACS), w ith fellowships in intensive care as well as anaesthesia. He is an examiner for the FFARACS in the Australasian College. Professor Oh has written two books and con tributed to book chapters on anaesthesia and intensive care, and published in journals o f anaesthesia, critical care, medicine, and clinical pharmacology, reflecting his wide research interests, which include monitoring and equipment, parenteral nutrition, and pharma­ cokinetics o f the critically ill. He has been invited to speak at international meetings and was a visiting professor at the University o f British Columbia in 1985. Non-professional interests o f Professor Oh are those o f his wife and two children, although he re tains a strong interest in sport. He represented Queensland University in rugby union and hockey and was awarded half blues in both sports. Dr. Henry M.K. Mok Lecturer, Department o f General Business Manage ment and Personnel Management Dr. Henry Mok, lecturer, the department o f general business management and personnel management, teaches courses in econ omics and statistics. He graduated w ith special distin ction from the Hong Kong Baptist College in 1977. He was awarded the East West Center (USA) Scholar ship for graduate studies at the University o f Hawaii at Manoa, and attained his master degrees o f urban and regional planning and o f social work. He also re ceived his MA in economics at the University o f Toronto, Canada. After he obtained his PhD in econ omics from the University o f Hawaii at Manoa in 1986, he joined the business management department o f the City Polytechnic o f Hong Kong. Dr. Mok joined this University in January 1988. His research interest is in tourism economics and the financial markets in the Pacific region. 22