Awards

Congratulations to Professor Sophia Chan Siu-chee, Professor Chia-Chin Lin, Professor Doris Yu Sau-fung and Dr Daniel Fong Yee-tak for being named among the world’s top 2% most cited scientists in their specialty areas by Stanford University* 2020.

* Source: Ioannidis JPA, Boyack KW, Baas J (2020) Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators. PLoS Biol 18(10): e3000918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918

Congratulations to Dr Maggie Chan Mee-kie, Lecturer, for being awarded Distinguished Educator in Gerontological Nursing by National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence (NHCGNE) at the NHCGNE Leadership Conference on October 26 – 28, 2021.

Congratulations to Dr Janet Wong Yuen-ha, Associate Professor, for being elected as Sigma Global Regional Coordinator for Asia 2021-2023 for a second consecutive term.

Congratulations to Dr Derek Cheung Yee-tak, Assistant Professor, for being awarded the Best Poster Award for his poster “Use of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) Sample and Brief Smoking Cessation Advice for Recruiting Smokers to Smoking Cessation (SC) Services and Motivating Quit Attempts” at the Health Research Symposium 2021 by the Food and Health Bureau, the Government of the HKSAR on November 23, 2021.

Congratulations to Ms Echo Go Ting-ting, DNurs student, for being awarded the “Outstanding Poster Presentation Award” for her poster presentation “Promoting insulin therapy with brief motivational interviewing among type 2 diabetic patients: A quasi-experimental study” at the Hong Kong Primary Care Conference 2021 organised by the Hong Kong College of Family Physicians on July 30 – August 1, 2021.

Congratulations to Ms Shirley Sit Man-man, MPhil student, for being awarded the “Young Investigator Award” and “My Favourite Young Investigator Award” for her poster presentation “A Gamified Digital Health Promotion Intervention on Promoting Physical Activity to Enhance Family Well-being Amidst COVID-19: Jockey Club SMART Family-Link Project” at the 9th Global Conference of the Alliance for Healthy Cities organised by the China Hong Kong Chapter, Alliance for Health Cities on November 3 – 5, 2021

Congratulations to Ms Rose Lin Sin-yi, PhD student, for being awarded the “Outstanding Paper Presentation Award” for the presentation “Effects of empowerment-based psycho-behavioral program on neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) among persons with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)” at the 28th Annual Congress of Gerontology organised by Hong Kong Association of Gerontology on December 7, 2021.