Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2003

Citation Prof. the Honou r ab le A r t h u r Kw o k Cheung L i, MA, MD, BChir (Cantab), DLitt (Hon), DSc (Hon), FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed), FRACS, FACS (Hon), FPCS(Hon), FRCS (I)(Hon), FRCS (Glg)(Hon), GBS, JP I n 1982, Prof. A r t h ur K C Li returned to his native Hong Kong to take up the f ound i ng Chair in Surgery at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, having completed his Doctor of Medicine at the University of Cambridge. Ten years later he became Dean of Medicine, and i n 1996 was elevated, for his foresight and progressive spirit, to the vice-chancellorship. In 2002, he retired as Vice-Chancellor and accepted appointment as Secretary for Education and Manpower in the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. From thence on he moves to a higher plane of service for the community in which he seeks the furtherance of the welfare of the entire population of Hong Kong. Prof. L i came from an illustrious family in Hong Kong. The Li family had migrated from Heshan i n Guangdong and established their business in Hong Kong, and Arthur Li is of the f ou r th generation. The family has produced m a n y e m i n e n t p e r s o n a g es w h o h a ve distinguished themselves in a wide variety of business pursuits and public services. Arthur Li was brought up in a family that stressed discipline and t r ad i t i onal Chinese culture. Upon finishing school at St. Paul's Co- educational College, he went to England at the age of 16 for matriculation studies and then to pursue university education i n medicine at K i n g 's College Camb r i d g e, and t hen the M i dd l e s ex Ho s p i t al Med i c al School. A f t er graduation he stayed on in Britain for specialist training and research. From 1977 to 1980 he took up a fellowship to do research and to lecture at t he H a r v a r d M e d i c a l S c h o ol a nd t he Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. His specialties consist of hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery, as w e l l as s u r ge ry of the u p p er abdomen. I n 1980 he joined the Royal Free Ho s p i t al i n L o n d on as a consultant, and received his Doctor of Med i c i ne degree at Cambridge the next year. Upon joining The Chinese University, Prof. Li showed remarkable capability and flair in the many duties he took up. Under his leadership the Department of Surgery developed, over a mere decade, into a centre of international renown. Prof. Li was twice elected Dean of Medicine, in 1992 and 1995, and he pursued the business of the faculty w i t h great enthusiasm, improving the curriculum, enhancing faculty strength, and providing for the most updated equipment and facilities. Landmark achievements during his deanship include the establishment of the Departments of Nursing and Pharmacy, and the only academic Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences i n Ho ng Kong. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Hong The 60th Congregation 39