Calendar 2001–02

Department Profiles • Medicine 157 health-related sciences. The school will collaborate with the government, the Hospital Authority, the Department of Health, the World Health Organization and other professional bodies and organizations. In the meantime, a Health Education and Health Promotion Unit has been established to provide training in health education and health promotion for school teachers in support of the Healthy Schools Programme. The school was officially opened on 2nd June 2001. Department of Surgery Tel.: 2632 2789/2632 2617 Fax.: 2637 7974 E-mail: surgery@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.surgery.cuhk.edu.hk The department provides a comprehensive teaching and training programme in general surgery and its sub-specialities at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In addition to teaching medical students, the department also trains surgical trainees in all the major surgical sub-specialities, and organizes the conjoint fellowship examination of the Hong Kong and the Royal Edinburgh Colleges of Surgeons on a regular basis. Faculty members have achieved international acclaim in fields including plastic surgery, otorhinolaryngology, neurosurgery, paediatric surgery, and conventional, endoscopic, and laparoscopic surgery of the hepato- pancreatico-biliary and gastrointestinal systems. They are also active organizers of international symposiums, workshops, and meetings, and deeply committed to basic surgical research, especially in liver regeneration, liver tumours, as well as nasopharyngeal, gastrointestinal, and breast malignancies. The Accident and Emergency Medicine Academic Unit was formed under the department in October 1995 to develop teaching and research programmes in trauma and emergency care. The unit’s main research thrust involves mapping the human response to injury. Two main areas of interest are immune response to trauma and blood coagulation disorders following trauma, and new discoveries in the area of leucocyte adhesion molecule responses have been published. The unit has developed a comprehensive teaching programme to be delivered as part of the clinical programme, with the aim of enhancing the decision-making skills of students, allowing them to manage a wide range of emergencies with confidence.