Honorary University Fellows

Citation delivered by the Dean of Medicine, Professor S K Lam:

Mr Pro-Chancellor, Dr Clyde Wu very much regrets that he is not able to join us in Hong Kong for this ceremony today. However, his absence does not diminish the strength of his achievements.

Dr Clyde Wu is the son of the late Mr and Mrs Wu Chung, and brother of the late James Man-hon Wu, Sir Gordon Ying-Sheung Wu and John Ying-Bun Wu, and thus belongs to a familial tradition of public service and philanthropy that spans generations.

Dr Wu was born in Hong Kong and, after his secondary school education, left for the United States to study medicine. He became a renowned cardiopulmonary specialist and has devoted his career to medical research in cardiology and in medical education. Dr Wu was appointed Associate Clinical Professor of Wayne State University in Detroit in 1972, and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh. He has served in the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University since 1996, and has been the Chairman of the Health Sciences Committee since 1999.

While his education and career have principally been in the United States, Dr Wu was also a faculty member at the University of Hong Kong's Department of Medicine from 1961 to 1962, and has been very active in supporting the University's endeavours. He has been assiduous in his stewardship of the many research funds, exchange professorships and fellowships established by the Wu family, and has been instrumental in building programmes of academic and research collaboration between the University of Hong Kong, and medical institutions and universities in China and the United States.

It gives me great pleasure to present Dr Clyde Wu for the Honorary University Fellowship, in absentia, in recognition of his contributions to Hong Kong and the University. Thank you.