Summer Issue, 2013

24 Lam Woo Professorship in Biomedical Engineering 林護基金教授席 (生物醫學工程) Incumbent: Ed XWu 吳學奎 The Seventh Inauguration of Endowed Professorships Mr LamWoo was a well-known builder at the turn of the twentieth century in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. He was the founder of the YMCA and many churches and schools in Hong Kong. The Lam Woo Foundation supports education, social welfare and medical facilities in both the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong. Biomedical Engineering encompasses engineering and medicine, leading to numerous advances in diagnosis and treatment. It is most appropriate for us to endow this professorship. LamWoo Foundation 林護紀念基金 Lady Edith Kotewall Professorship in the Built Environment 羅旭龢夫人基金教授席 (建築環境) Incumbent: David PY Lung 龍炳頤 The endowment for the Lady Edith Kotewall Professorship in the Built Environment will facilitate signi cant improvement in the research of the relationship between architecture and the environment. Lady Edith Kotewall, a woman of great inner beauty, loved to spend her days sitting in the garden admiring the view, the trees and plants and the few but beautiful buildings surrounding her home. It is therefore a great honour for me that the Chair in the Built Environment should be given in my mother’s name to recognise her passion in humanising our living environment. Mrs Helen Zimmern 施玉榮夫人 Giving in Focus Vivian TaamWong Professorship in Integrative Medicine 黃譚智媛基金教授席 (中西結合醫學) Appointment to be announced 待聘 Hong Kong is in a unique position to study the practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine in its pure form because it is illegal for Chinese Medicine practitioners to use Western diagnostic and treatment modalities. However, integrating Chinese and Western medicine is practised by most individuals in the community. HKU, with our wide spectrum of world-class experts in different scienti c elds, offers fertile research ground for this Professor who would strive to combine the best of both systems to formulate the new medicine of the 21st century, as directed by our former Minister of Health, Professor Chen Zhu. Hence your support for the research on Integrative Medicine would be deeply appreciated. Professor VivianTaamWong 黃譚智媛教授 Ng Chun-Man Professorship in Orthopaedic Bioengineering 伍振民基金教授席 (骨科生物工程) Incumbent: William W Lu 呂維加 In recent decades Orthopaedic Bioengineering has successfully enabled quantum leaps in the development of orthopaedic surgery and has improved the quality of life for countless people. It is my hope that dedicated researchers in this exciting eld will be given support in their quests for additional ways and means to relieve chronic pain and reduce permanent physical disabilities. Mrs Ella Ng In memory of her late husband, Mr Ng Chun-Man 伍孫雅娜女士為紀念先夫伍振民先生，以誌