Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (ENT) Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 香港中文大學 醫學院 耳鼻咽喉 — 頭頸外科學系 - 2000-1996

2000-1996

  • 2000
    • Division organised the National and International Head and Neck Cancer Congress jointly with the China Anticancer Association. The Congress is held in China biennially for local and overseas ENT surgeons.
    • Division, together with the Division of Neurosurgery of the Department of Surgery, successfully performed the first two auditory brainstem implantations in Asia.
    • The number of cochlear implantations performed at the Prince of Wales Hospital exceeded one hundred.
  • 1999
    • Division provided hospital-based family medicine (ENT) training to the Hospital Authority doctors rotating through Accident and Emergency specialty at the Prince of Wales Hospital.
    • Division extended its clinical service to the Tseung Kwan O Hospital.
    • A book chapter titled “Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma” published in Diseases of the Head and Neck, Nose and Throat written by Professor C. A. van Hasselt awarded the George Davey Howells Memorial Prize in Otolaryngology.
  • 1998
    • Division introduced computer-assisted (imaged guided) sinus surgery – a quantum leap forward in treating sinus disease.
  • 1997
    • Division extended its clinical service to the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital.
  • 1996
    • Division received a donation from the Matilda Charities Fund for support in setting up a cochlear implantation centre at the Prince of Wales Hospital.
    • Division established Bone Anchored Hearing Aid and Craniofacial Osseointegration Programmes at the Prince of Wales Hospital.
    • Division conducted the first Joint Intercollegiate Higher Specialist Examination of the RCSEd (the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh) and HKCORL (the Hong Kong College of Otorhinolaryngologists) in Hong Kong.
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