Honorary Fellow Dr Pamela LEUNG (2009)

Dr LEUNG Ming Kuen Pamela studied medicine on a Hong Kong Government Scholarship at the University of Hong Kong from 1962-1967. As a student, she was outstanding and she graduated with distinctions in Physiology, Pharmacology and Pathology. She was also a recipient of the Nuffield Foundation Scholarship in Tropical Medicine and the Francis D. Wolfe MD Memorial Scholarship of the Aesculapius Club of Chicago for scholastic achievement. After her graduation in 1967 and following her internship, she started her career in obstetrics & gynaecology at Tsan Yuk Hospital and Queen Mary Hospital. She became a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists in 1972, and Fellow in 1984. She was appointed Consultant and Head of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital in 1980. When the Hospital was relocated to the Eastern District as the Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in 1993, she was appointed its first Hospital Chief Executive. She became the first Cluster Chief Executive under the Hospital Authority in 2001 when the Hong Kong East Cluster was established.

Throughout her 32 years of professional career, Dr Pamela LEUNG (whom we have always affectionately called “Pam? has made significant contributions to the specialty and the medical profession. She was Council member of the Hong Kong College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists on its establishment in 1988. Through the years, she has been member and chairman of various committees of the College. Pamela has a zest for quality improvement of the medical profession. She initiated a territory wide perinatal audit back in the 1980s when she was chairman of the Perinatal Audit Subcommittee of the Obstetrical & Gynaecological Society of Hong Kong. Under her leadership as Chairman of the Quality Assurance Committee, our College conducted the first territory-wide audit on O&G services in the private and public hospitals in Hong Kong in 1994, a feat unparalleled among all other specialties. She was our third President in the history of our College, from 1995 to 1997.

After stepping down from the Presidency of our College, she also served in the Council and various committees of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, and was its Honorary Treasurer from 1998 to 2004.

Apart from serving the medical profession, Pam has also actively contributed to the community of Hong Kong, and was appointed Justice of Peace for her services. She has served in various committees of the Family Planning Association of Hong Kong for over 25 years. She was Chairman from 2002 to 2005, and has been Vice-President since 2006.

After her retirement in 2005, she has remained heavily involved as Vice-President of the Family Planning Association, in voluntary work for numerous committees of the Hospital Authority and various charitable organizations, including the Hong Kong Cheshire Home Foundation, the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Charity Foundation and the Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society. She is currently the Honorary Hospital Superintendent of the Hong Kong Anti-cancer Society Jockey Club Cancer Rehabilitation Centre in Aberdeen. She is also an active member of various committees in several private hospitals in Hong Kong.

Mr President, I believe that Dr LEUNG is a illustrious example of a Fellow of our College for our younger generation to look up to and I hope more of them can aspire to follow in her foot-steps. It is indeed my honour and pleasure to I present Dr Pamela LEUNG to you for conferment of the Honorary Fellowship of our College.

Dr Robert LAW
at the conferment ceremony in 2009