Bulletin No. 1, 2012

News in Brief   47  Cancer Care Symposium The Nethersole School of Nursing held the Fifth Pan-Pacific Nursing Conference and Seventh Nursing Symp o s i um on Ca n c e r Ca r e from 22 to 24 September 2011. Titled ‘Issues, Challenges, and Future Directions of Evidence- based Healthcare’, the event was attended by over 500 healthcare delegates from over 20 countries, and 213 scientific abstracts were presented. Conference of Drug Safety Research Centres Jointly organized by the Centre for Food and Drug Safety of CUHK, Université Paris-Est Créteil, the Department of Health and the Hospital Authority, the ‘2011 Joint Conference of Drug Safety Research Centres—Strategies to Ensure Medicine Safety and Quality’ was held on 15 November 2011, attracting over 180 doctors, pharmacists and nurses. The focus of the conference included allergic drug reactions, applications of pharmacogenetics in clinical practice, and systems for ensuring medicine safety and quality in hospital and out-patient clinic settings. Front row: Prof. Thomas Y.K. Chan (1st left), director of the Centre for Food and Drug Safety, Faculty of Medicine, CUHK; Dr. P.Y. Lam, (4th left), Director of Health of the HKSAR Government; Prof. Hervé Le Louet (3rd right), Université Paris-Est Créteil; Dr. Heston Kwong (3rd left), assistant director (drug), Department of Health; and Dr. Joseph Lui (2nd right), chairman of the Medication Safety Committee, Hospital Authority Nobel Laureates on Road to Success Sun Hung Kai Properties and CUHK presented two public lectures on 21 November and 5 December 2011 respectively. The former, titled ‘Pursuit of My Dreams for Half-a-Century’, was given by Prof. Ei-ichi Negishi (left), 2010 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He reminisced about how he had overcome many increasingly challenging competitions over the years to be finally recognized. The latter was titled ‘Steps to Limit Future Global Economic Crises’, was delivered by Prof. Peter A. Diamond (right), 2010 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences. He reviewed factors that contributed to the global economic crises and discussed steps for addressing them.