Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2006

14 Chinese University Bulletin Spring • Summer 2006 Dr. Ho Tzu Leung A distinguished urologist by profession, Dr. Ho Tzu-leung is a director of the S.H. Ho Foundation Limited and a director of the Board of the Bethlehem Management Limited. The Chinese University of Hong Kong has enjoyed the support of Dr. Ho and his family for decades. Dr. Ho obtained his medical doctorate from the Chicago Medical School in 1966, became a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Manitoba in 1968. He did his post doctoral Urological Surgery training at the Stanford University Medical School from 1968 to 1972. He received his Board Certificate from the American Board of Urology, USA, in 1976. Subsequently he was awarded a fellowship by the American College of Surgeons in 1977. He has been for many years a medical practitioner in the United States, Hong Kong and Singapore. Dr. Ho and his family are very committed to community service, in particular, to local tertiary education and medical services. Dr. Ho is a director of the S.H. Ho Foundation Limited and a trustee of the Ho Sin Hang Education Endowment Fund of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Through the S.H. Ho Foundation Limited, of which Dr. Ho is a director, the University has benefited by way of the Ho Sin- Hang Engineering Building, student hostels at the three founding Colleges, a non-residential hall for students at New Asia College, as well as the building of the Madam S.H. Ho Hostel for Medical Students and its extension at the Prince of Wales Hospital. The Foundation also donated funds towards the establishment of the C.N. Yang Visiting Professorship Fund. More recently, the Foundation has supported the setting up of two innovative and superbly equipped research centres: the S.H. Ho Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Centre, and the S.H. Ho Centre for Geriatrics and Gerontology. Through these highly strategic investments in the University’s medical research capacity, the Foundation is ultimately making important contributions to the delivery of patient care in Hong Kong and well beyond.