Honorary University Fellows
Citation for Professor Leung Nai Kong delivered by Professor S K Lam, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Honorary University Fellowships Presentation Ceremony on December 16, 2003:
Professor Leung Nai Kong is leading paediatrician and an alumnus of the University.
A former Chief Executive of Princess Margaret Hospital, he was appointed Honorary Clinical Lecturer in this University's Department of Paediatrics in 1976, he became Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in 1997 and Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Medicine in 2000.
His contributions to the University are many and varied. He has been actively involved in the planning of educational activities under the new medical curriculum and is a member of the Faculty's Medical Education Unit.
Professor Leung has played an instrumental part in the founding of the University's Medical Alumni Association and has been a member of the Association's Executive Committee since its formation in 1999.
His contributions to his field were recognized in 1993 when he was made a Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. He was a Council member of the Academy from 1997 to 2003. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Paediatricians and the President of the College from 1997 to 2003. His substantial contributions won him the award of Outstanding Paediatrician in Asia in 2000, an Honorary Fellowship of the American Academy of Paediatricians last year and Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health this year.
Professor Leung is extensively involved in serving the community. He has been Chairman of the Council for the AIDS Trust Fund since 1997. He is currently a member of the Dental Council of Hong Kong as well as the Hong Kong Nursing Council.
He has been a Council Member of the Spastics Association of Hong Kong since 1973 and of the Hong Kong Red Cross since 2001, and a consultant to the Children's Cancer Foundation since its formation in 1991.
It gives me enormous pleasure, Mr Pro-Chancellor, to present Professor Leung Nai Kong for the University Fellowship in recognition of his contributions to the community and to the University.