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HKU's School of Chinese Medicine to Open Clinical Centre for Teaching and Research at Queen Mary Hospital

24 Aug 2001

 

The School of Chinese Medicine, at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), is to open its Clinical Centre for Teaching and Research on Tuesday, August 28. The new Clinical Centre will provide support for clinical teaching as well as offer consultation to the public. A Chinese medicine pharmacy is attached to the Clinical Centre to provide service to patients.

The opening ceremony of the Centre at Queen May Hospital will be officiated by Dr Alice Lam, Chairman of University Grants Committee. Professor S P Chow, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of HKU and Chairman of the Committee of Management, HKU's School of Chinese Medicine, Professor S K Lam, Dean of HKU's Faculty of Medicine and Professor
S H Chan, Director of HKU's School of Chinese Medicine will be at the ceremony. Members of the Press are cordially invited to attend. Details of the ceremony are as follows:

Date: August 28, 2001 (Tuesday)
Time: 12 Noon
Venue: HKU School of Chinese Medicine Clinical Centre for Teaching and Research, G/F, Nursing School, Queen May Hospital, 102 Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.
Master of Ceremony: Miss Wong Tak-yu (Former TVB news anchor and currently student of HKU's Bachelor of Chinese Medicine programme.)
(The Opening Ceremony will be conducted in Cantonese.)

Located on the ground floor of the Nursing School at Queen Mary Hospital, the new Clinical Centre for Teaching and Research is the third clinical centre established by the School of Chinese Medicine at HKU. In 1998, HKU opened its first clinical centre at the Admiralty Learning Centre of the School of Professional and Continuing Education (SPACE) and a year later, in Tsimshatsui Learning Centre of SPACE. The two clinical centres offer consultations to the public and provide facilities to support clinical teaching. The Chinese Medicine Pharmacy that opened February this year at Admiralty further enhanced services of the clinical centres and supported the study of Chinese medicine and related programmes.

Latest Chinese medicine equipment such as an intelligent acupuncture model, a pulse model and a massage analysis system will be on display on the day.

Reporters / photographers are invited to a preview of the new Clinical Centre at 11:30am. Staff will be available to answer questions. A shuttle bus has been arranged to pick up press members from Admiralty MTR station. Press members please wait at the bus stop near Café de Coral of Admiralty Centre (Exit A of Admiralty MTR station). The bus will leave at 11:10am sharp and return to Admiralty from Queen Mary Hospital at 12:45pm. For further enquiries, please contact Miss Polo Leung at HKU External Relations Office (tel: 2859 2600) or Miss Cystal Fung at HKU SPACE's Public Affairs Office (tel: 2975 5650).