Programme Director
Ho-Keung Ng
MBChB (Edin), MD, FRCPath, FHKCPath, Chair Professor and past Associate Dean (Education)
H.K. Ng was Chairman of the Department and Chief of Service 1999-2011.
He was one of the Founders of the Hong Kong Division of the International Academy of Pathology (with Joseph Lee, W.P.Mak and John Chan) . He founded the Association of Directors of Pathology of China in 1998. He also founded the movement for the Asia Pacific Pathology in 2000 which evolved to become the Assembly of Asia Pacific International Academy of Pathology (APIAP).
He has served as a Vice President of the International Academy of Pathology (IAP) 1998-2012 and in 2011 took up the important position of the Chair of the Education Committee. He has been a major force in pathology education internationally and was awarded the Gold Medal by the IAP in 2006.
During his tenure as Department Chair, publications in the Department have progressed in a major manner. There were 25 promotions in the Department during this period. His efforts were recognised by the Chinese Society of Pathology and Chinese Journal of Pathology for Distinguished Services Awards. Foundations were built during the tenure and they led eventually to the awards of the prestigious Theme Based Researches on liver cancer and nasopharngeal cancer to the Department.
His former Department Chair, Professor Joseph C.K. Lee (1982-1999), founded the University Pathology Service (UPS) which grew under H.K. Ng from a small practice to a major force of private practice in Hong Kong with gross business of over HK$8 million a year.
H.K. Ng was very active in training pathologists from mainland China. About 30 fellows from mainland China received training at the Department during this period.
The Department underwent a successful accreditation exercise by the National Testing Authority of Australia (NATA) in 2000. This was the first ever international accreditation by a pathology laboratory in Hong Kong. He subsequently led the Department through several rounds of re-accreditation with NATA.
H.K. Ng founded the highly successful degree programme of M Sc in Medical Laboratory Science in 2009. Together with neurosurgery, he also founded the degree programme of M Sc in Neurological Sciences in 2011.
H.K. Ng together with colleagues from the Department founded the annual Cancer Conferences since 2005.
Together with colleagues from neurosurgery and neurology, he founded the highly successful annual Brain Conferences in 2003. Together with colleagues from Chemical Pathology and Clinical Oncology, he founded the State Key Laboratory of Oncology of South China in 2006, where he served as Associate Director until 2011. This is the first State Key Laboratory on cancer and one of the earliest such laboratory established outside mainland China.
H.K. Ng was Chairman of the Licentiate Examination Subcommittee of the Hong Kong Medical Council 2002-2012.
Ho-Keung Ng
MBChB (Edin), MD, FRCPath, FHKCPath, Chair Professor and past Associate Dean (Education)
H.K. Ng was Chairman of the Department and Chief of Service 1999-2011.
He was one of the Founders of the Hong Kong Division of the International Academy of Pathology (with Joseph Lee, W.P.Mak and John Chan) . He founded the Association of Directors of Pathology of China in 1998. He also founded the movement for the Asia Pacific Pathology in 2000 which evolved to become the Assembly of Asia Pacific International Academy of Pathology (APIAP).
He has served as a Vice President of the International Academy of Pathology (IAP) 1998-2012 and in 2011 took up the important position of the Chair of the Education Committee. He has been a major force in pathology education internationally and was awarded the Gold Medal by the IAP in 2006.
During his tenure as Department Chair, publications in the Department have progressed in a major manner. There were 25 promotions in the Department during this period. His efforts were recognised by the Chinese Society of Pathology and Chinese Journal of Pathology for Distinguished Services Awards. Foundations were built during the tenure and they led eventually to the awards of the prestigious Theme Based Researches on liver cancer and nasopharngeal cancer to the Department.
His former Department Chair, Professor Joseph C.K. Lee (1982-1999), founded the University Pathology Service (UPS) which grew under H.K. Ng from a small practice to a major force of private practice in Hong Kong with gross business of over HK$8 million a year.
H.K. Ng was very active in training pathologists from mainland China. About 30 fellows from mainland China received training at the Department during this period.
The Department underwent a successful accreditation exercise by the National Testing Authority of Australia (NATA) in 2000. This was the first ever international accreditation by a pathology laboratory in Hong Kong. He subsequently led the Department through several rounds of re-accreditation with NATA.
H.K. Ng founded the highly successful degree programme of M Sc in Medical Laboratory Science in 2009. Together with neurosurgery, he also founded the degree programme of M Sc in Neurological Sciences in 2011.
H.K. Ng together with colleagues from the Department founded the annual Cancer Conferences since 2005.
Together with colleagues from neurosurgery and neurology, he founded the highly successful annual Brain Conferences in 2003. Together with colleagues from Chemical Pathology and Clinical Oncology, he founded the State Key Laboratory of Oncology of South China in 2006, where he served as Associate Director until 2011. This is the first State Key Laboratory on cancer and one of the earliest such laboratory established outside mainland China.
H.K. Ng was Chairman of the Licentiate Examination Subcommittee of the Hong Kong Medical Council 2002-2012.