Calendar 2002–03

168 Part 5• Department Profiles andProgrammes of Studies Education andHealth PromotionUnit hasbeen established to provide training in health education and health promotion for school teachers in support of theHealthy Schools Programme. The school was officially opened on 2nd June 2001. Department of Surgery Tel.:2632 2789/2617 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-specialitiesat both theundergraduate and postgraduate levels. In addition to teaching medical students, the department also trains surgical trainees in all the major su rgical sub-specialities, and or ganizes the conjoint fellowship examination of the Hong Kong and theRoyal Edinburgh Colleges of Surgeonson 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 basicsurgical 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 thedepartment inOctober 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 interestare 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 theclinical programme, with the aimof enhancing the decision-making skills of students, allowing th em to man age a wid e r ang e of emerg encies with confidence.