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Morningside Fellows Awarded UGC Teaching Award

08September2017

Congratulations to Professor Suzanne So and Professor Emily Chan, who were both awarded UGC Teaching Awards. The UGC Teaching Award recognizes past and present teaching achievements, as well as professors' leadership and scholarship.

 

Professor Suzanne So received the award for the Early Career category. Professor So's recent research focuses on the psychological factors for the development and maintenance of delusions. She obtained a BA in Experimental Psychology (1999) at Oxford University, followed by an MSSc in Clinical Psychology (2001) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a PhD in Psychology (2012) at King's College London. 

 

Professor Emily Chan received the award for the General Education category. Professor Chan serves as Professor and Assistant Dean for the Faculty of Medicine and is involved in many research projects across CUHK, Hong Kong and Asia. Professor Chan has also served as a visiting professor or fellow at several institutions, including Oxford University and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Her research interests include disaster and humanitarian medicine, climate change and health. and global and planetary health. Awarded the 2007 Nobuo Maeda International Research Award of American Public Health Association, Professor Chan has published more than 200 international peer-reviewed academic/technical/conference articles and eight of these appeared in The Lancet and Bulletin of the World Health Organization. Her disaster-health related papers have been used as policy references within the WHO and the Health Emergency Response Office of China’s National Health and Family Planning Commission. Professor Chan also has extensive experience as a frontline emergency relief practitioner in 20 countries.

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