Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1993

hospital in the UK , where he served as senior house officer. He spent the following four years i n different hospitals in Manchester, working on paediatric subspecialities, perinatal medicine, and obstetrics. I n June 1986, Dr. Sullivan was appointed as clinical research fellow/ honorary paediatric registrar at the Dunn Nutritional Labo r a t o r y, Un i v e r s i ty of Camb r i dge and Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. This post afforded him an opportunity to pursue his interest in tropical paediatrics and also undertake detailed scientific investigation into persistent diarrhoea in children, a topic which captured his attention while in India. He spent two year s doing field wor k in the Medical Research Council's Tropical Researc h Station i n Gamb i a, Wes t A f r i c a, and was subsequently appointed as lecturer/honorary senior registrar in the Department of Child, Westminster Children's Hospital, London, where he consolidated his training in paediatric gastroenterology. Dr. Sullivan's current research interest s include the therapeutic use of recombinant epidermal g r ow t h f ac t o r, n u t r i t i o n al assessment and management of disabled children wit h feeding difficulties, and Helicobacter pylori in children and their families. Outside of medicine, Dr. Sullivan seeks sanity by recourse to the study of philosophy and enjoys hill walking and sailing. Mrs. Sullivan is an ear- nose-and-throat surgeon and is currently visiting lecturer in the University's Department of Surgery. They have a son, Adam, who is two years old. Dr. Chan King-ming Lecturer in Biochemistry Dr. King-ming Chan graduated B.Sc. from The Chinese University's Department of Biology, minoring in geography. He completed his M.Phil, studies in CUHK and obtained his doctorate at Memorial University of Newfoundland i n Canada. Before joining this university as lecturer in biochemistry, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biochemistry, Queen's University in Canada, and a research associate at the Center of Marine Biotechnology, the University of Maryland, USA. Dr. Chan's two major research interests are environmental regulation of eukaryotic gene expression and marine biotechnology. Organisms such as fishes, crustaceans, mollusks and algaes are all subjects of his study. Dr. Chan is a member of many academic bodies such as the Canadia n Biochemical Society, the Society of Environmental Toxicology an d Chemistry (USA), the Marine Biological Association of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Biochemical Society. Dr. Chan is married, with one daughter. He loves swimming, scuba diving and hiking. Dr. Paul David Robinson Senior Lecturer in Physical Education Dr. Robinson read zoology and earned his B.Sc. degree from the University of Bristol, UK, in 1962. On graduation he trained as a physical education specialist at Loughborough College and taught in a grammar school near London. He later went to the States as a Fulbright scholar and completed his doctoral studies at Michigan State University in 1969. After serving two years as lecturer back in Loughborough College, he was appointed assistant professor by McG i ll University, Montreal, Canada, where he set up a biomechanics laboratory withi n the physical education department. To further develop PROFILES 18