{"id":6690,"date":"2007-04-01T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/?post_type=events&#038;p=6690"},"modified":"2025-11-18T08:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:37:34","slug":"2007-endowed-professorship-at-the-university-of-hong-kong-%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e5%a4%a7%e5%ad%b8%e6%98%8e%e5%be%b7%e6%95%99%e6%8e%88%e5%b8%ad","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/zh-hant\/events\/2007-endowed-professorship-at-the-university-of-hong-kong-%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e5%a4%a7%e5%ad%b8%e6%98%8e%e5%be%b7%e6%95%99%e6%8e%88%e5%b8%ad\/","title":{"rendered":"2007 Endowed Professorship at The University of Hong Kong \u9999\u6e2f\u5927\u5b78\u660e\u5fb7\u6559\u6388\u5e2d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Professor Wah-kit Lam (\u6797\u83ef\u6770\u6559\u6388) has been awarded the Mok Hing-Yiu Professorship in Respiratory Medicine, the first Endowed Chair in Respiratory Medicine from the University of Hong Kong in April 2007. Endowed Professorships at the University of Hong Kong is a privileged honour bestowed upon her distinguished academics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20171124100330_26774.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6691\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Lam has been closely associated with our professional chest societies. He was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The founding Honorary Secretary (1986 \u2013 89) and President (1989 \u2013 91) of the Hong Kong Thoracic Society<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Lung Foundation (1996 \u2013 99)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The founding Chairman of the Specialty Board in Respiratory Medicine, Hong Kong College of Physicians (1993 \u2013 2000)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>President (1986 \u2013 88) and Regent (2000 \u2013 2003) of the HK and Macau Chapter of American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), and received the Manuel Albertal Award from the ACCP in 2002<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>President of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (2002 \u2013 04)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The first Chair Professor in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Hong Kong in 1997 and he is still serving on the HKTS Committee Board, giving us invaluable advice and guidance all the times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hong Kong Lung Foundation, Hong Kong Thoracic Society and American College of Chest Physicians (Hong Kong and Macau Chapter) jointly congratulate Professor Lam for his highly distinguished achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"event-category":[57],"event-disease":[],"class_list":["post-6690","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","event-category-social-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/6690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-category?post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"event-disease","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.hkts.hku.yakoo.com.hk\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-disease?post=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}