2008 May - American Thoracic Society Distinguished Achievement Awards
Hong Kong Lung Foundation, Hong Kong Thoracic Society and ACCP (Hong Kong and Macau Chapter)
Professor Moira Chan-Yeung, currently the Honorary Professor of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong and Emeritus Professor of Medicine of the University of British Columbia, has been presented the Distinguished Achievement Award 2008 by the American Thoracic Society during their annual international conference held in Toronto in May 2008.
The American Thoracic Society Distinguished Achievement Award is given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to fighting respiratory disease through research, education, patient care or advocacy, and only up to two awards may be given each year.
Professor Chan-Yeung began her academic career in 1972 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver of Canada and since then she have gained much academic achievement through her research in occupational lung diseases, particularly occupational asthma, and on identifying environmental and genetic risk factors in asthma. In 1998, Professor Chan-Yeung returned to Hong Kong as Chair Professor in Respiratory Disease and headed several epidemiological studies on tuberculosis, lung cancer, COPD and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, and successfully bridged the two academic worlds.
The Hong Kong Lung Foundation, Hong Kong Thoracic Society and American College of Chest Physicians (the Hong Kong and Macau Chapter) jointly congratulate Professor Chan-Yeung for her winning of this highly prestigious award.
