Calendar 2001–02

Department Profiles • Medicine 155 consists of eight weeks of teaching to medical students from Year 3 to Year 5, and covers basic orthopaedics and clinical training. Staff members of the department have had high professional and academic attainments in all major sub-specialities of orthopaedics: hand and microsurgery, sports medicine, traumatology, paediatric orthopaedics, tumour and orthopaedic oncology, spinal injury, orthopaedic rehabilitation, foot and ankle, and joint reconstruction surgery. Department of Paediatrics Tel.: 2632 2850 Fax.: 2636 0020 E-mail: paediatrics@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.pae.cuhk.edu.hk The department provides a 10-week module of theoretical and bedside teaching to Year-4 medical students, which aims at introducing the basic facts and principles about health and illness in children. Topics covered include care for the newborn; the influence of the perinatal period on subsequent health, growth and development; preventive medicine; the pattern, clinical presentation, and management of common childhood diseases. Staff of the department are actively engaged in clinical and epidemiological research in those same areas, which is complemented by basic animal and molecular research. Department of Pharmacology Tel.: 2609 6820 Fax.: 2603 5139 E-mail: pharmacology@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.pharmacology.cuhk.edu.hk The department teaches the basic mechanisms of action and therapeutic uses of drugs to preclinical medical and pharmacy students. Its research activities have a strong medicinal chemistry focus and include the characterization of prostaglandin receptors, their second messenger systems, and the development of selective ligands; mechanisms of the action of anti-asthmatic and anti-emetic drugs; drug action on the heart using patch-clamp techniques; the roles of neuropeptides in inflammation; isolation and testing of active principles from Chinese medicinal herbs; drug metabolism and detection using monoclonal antibody assays. There are on-going projects undertaken in collaboration with bioscience departments in HKUST and in mainland China and the UK. School of Pharmacy Tel.: 2609 6860 Fax.: 2603 5295 E-mail: pharmdept@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.pharmacy.cuhk.edu.hk The only such school in Hong Kong, the School of Pharmacy offers a degree programme that aims at providing quality, relevant, and comprehensive training in pharmacy and cultivating in students the highest sense of professional ethics