Bulletin Spring 1989

Profiles Dr. Walter W. K. K i ng Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery Dr. Walter W.K. King received his secondary school education in Hong Kong and at Repton School, England before he went to the United States of America in 1968. After graduating from the Universit y of Wisconsin, Madison with honours in biochemistry in 1971, he studied medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee and received his doctor of medicine (MD) degree in 1975. He did a year of internship in internal medicine at Vanderbilt University Hospital under Dr. Grant W. Liddle. Between 1976 and 1980 ， he received postgraduate training in general surgery at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he was chief resident in surgery from 1979 to 1980. Between 1980 and 1982, he was clinical assistant in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, clinical fellow in surgery, Harvard Medical School, and research fellow at Shriners Bums Institute, all at Boston. In 1981, he was certified as a specialist in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery. In 1982, he was appointed assistant director, nutritional support unit, Massachusetts General Hospital. Between 1982 and 1983 ， he became fellow in head and neck surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York. He was appointed assistant professor of surgery at State University of New York at Stony Brook and consultant surgeon at Northport Veterans' Administration Medical Center in 1983. In 1984, Dr. King was invited to be visiting fellow at Stanford University Medical Center. Dr. King joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong as lecturer in surgery in 1984 and was reappointed senior lecturer in surgery in 1988. Between 1986 and 1987 Dr. King was on special leave to serve as fellow in surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School to work on bums, facial and reconstructive surgery. Dr. King has wide clinical interests in head and neck surgery, facial and reconstructive surgery, bums surgery and endocrine surgery. His research interests include nu t r i t i on and metabolism, chemica l carcinogenesis, cultured human epidermis and tongue cancer. Dr. King is currently chief of the head and neck unit, nutritional support unit, and bums unit of the department of surgery, and consultant in head and neck surgery at the Prince of Wales Hospital. He was recipient of the fellowship award of the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery in 1984. He is currently a fellow of the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery, the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada, and the Hong Kong Surgical Society, and he is a member of the Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the Pan Pacific Surgical Association, the Society of Head and Neck Surgeons, and the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons. Dr . Tay Lian-soo Senior Lecturer, Department of Chinese Language and Literature Dr. Tay Lian-soo is a Malaysian Chinese. He graduated from the National Taiwan University in 1971 with a DLitt degree, and took up teaching at the University of Malaya at different times as lecturer, associate professor, and head of department for about seventeen years. He 23