Bulletin Spring‧Summer, 2008

Seventh Honorary Fellowship Conferment Ceremony   27 Modern-day Hua Tuo: Prof. Leung Ping-chung P rof. Leung Ping-chung is an eminent expert in microsurgery and hand surgery. He has integrated Western and Chinese medical knowledge to introduce new medical practices. His research areas include surgery, orthopaedics, microsurgery, education, public health, Chinese medicine and Chinese pharmacology. He has also contributed significantly to CUHK and New Asia College by serving as the head of the College. He has been the director of the Institute of Chinese Medicine, CUHK since 2000. Since 1994, Prof. Leung has successfully organized orthopaedic surgeons and paramedical professionals in Hong Kong to provide treatment and care services to people with disabilities in remote, mountainous regions of China, in a project known as 'Operation Concern'. He possesses the skills and the charitable benevolence for which the ancient sage Hua Tuo has been revered.