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 - 2005-2001

2005-2001

  • 2005
    • Division invited to join the Global BAHA Divino Study and asked to perform two cases out of one hundred worldwide, the only Asian group invited.
    • Professor Kathy Lee’s PhD thesis selected as a winner of CUHK Young Scholars Dissertation Award 2003.
    • Division elected by the Board of the Asia Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implant and Related Sciences to organise the 5th Symposium, held in Hong Kong.
  • 2004
    • Professor Michael Tong appointed Professor (Clinical) at the Department of Surgery and took up the position of Chief of Otorhinolaryngology.
    • The three academic/research centres set up in 2001 integrated to form the University’s Institute of Human Communicative Research. The Institute aims to promote and conduct clinical and basic scientific research as well as organizing educational activities for clinicians and the public in the treatment and rehabilitation of hearing, speech and language disorders.
  • 2003
    • Division organised the first Temporal Bone Dissection and Otology Lecture Course, now a regular event, for local and overseas ENT surgeons.
    • Division performed the first bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) implantations for irradiated nasopharyngeal cancer patients in Asia.
    • Division developed Hearing and Speech Assessment Tools for speech therapists in Hong Kong.
    • Division appointed by the Hospital Authority to organise the first Commissioned Training Programme for its doctors.
  • 2002
    • Division extended its clinical service to the North District Hospital.
    • Division authorised to provide Family Physicians Training Programme in the field of ENT for all family medicine trainees of the Hospital Authority.
    • Division established Academic Exchange Scheme in Otology in China.
    • Division developed the first 3D graphic animated bone anchored hearing aid implantation which is solely licensed to the University for educational instruction.
  • 2001
    • Division set up three self-financed academic/research centres for the prospective Institute of Human Communicative Research at the University.
      * Cochlear Implant and Hearing Rehabilitation Centre
      * Communication Disorders and Paediatric Speech Perception Centre
      * Cooperative Centre for Communicative Research
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