Sum Ping Lee Explained

Sum Ping Lee
Honorific-Suffix:,,
Native Name Lang:zh-hk
Office:39th Dean of Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong
Term Start:1 August 2008[1]
Term End:31 July 2013[2]
Predecessor:Raymond Hin Suen Liang
Successor:Gabriel Leung[3]
Birth Date:1947 or 1948[4]
Birth Place:[5]
Education:University of Auckland (PhD)
University of Hong Kong (MBBS, MD)
Spouse:Mary Lee[6] [7]
Children:2[8]
Module:
Other Names:Sum-ping Lee, SP Lee, Sum P Lee[9]
Field:Gastroenterology
Workplaces:University of Hong Kong
University of Washington
Queen Mary Hospital
Doctoral Advisor:Alistair Scott
John Scott
Thesis Title:The gallbladder epithelium in experimental cholelithiasis
Thesis Year:1977
Thesis Url:http://hdl.handle.net/2292/3178
Module2:
T:李心平
S:李心平
J:Lei5 Sam1 Ping4
Y:Léih Sām Pìhng

Sum Ping Lee (Chinese: 李心平; Jyutping: Lei5 Sam1 Ping4, born 1947 or 1948)[4] is an American physician and gastroenterologist who served as the 39th Dean of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, between 2008 and 2013. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine.[10]

Early life and education

Lee was born in southern China. His mother took him and his sisters to Hong Kong when he was 9 years old.[5] After taking the (the public examination at that time for all Primary 6 students in Hong Kong to enter secondary schools),[11] Lee entered Diocesan Boys' School, where he became interested in poetry and literature.[5] Aspiring to be a poet, in 1963 he enrolled in the arts stream for Form 6-7 (respectively equivalent to Year Twelve and Year Thirteen in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and New Zealand). However, his father's sudden passing from lung cancer prompted him to switch to medicine.[4] He was already in Form 6, but then-headmaster approved the change.[4] [12] 2 years later he started his MBBS at the University of Hong Kong (HKU),[4] graduating in 1970.[13]

In 1973, after 3 years of medical practice, Lee went to New Zealand to pursue research, obtaining his PhD from the University of Auckland in 1978.[13] [14] He also received his MD from HKU in 1980.[13] [15]

Career

Lee's career began at Queen Mary Hospital, where he worked for 3 years after receiving his MBBS in 1970. He then went to New Zealand to pursue a PhD.[5]

After his PhD, Lee became a consultant in gastroenterology and stayed at different institutions in Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, London and Boston.[5] [8] In 1985, he and his family moved to Seattle and joined the University of Washington School of Medicine. Eventually, he was appointed Cyrus E. Rubin Endowed Chair,[10] and became the Head of the Division of Gastroenterology at the Department of Medicine in 1995.[16] He also served as the Chief of the Gastroenterology Section of the Seattle VA Medical Center.[1]

Lee returned to the University of Hong Kong in 2008, taking up the position of Dean of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine.[1] [13] The Faculty at that time was besieged by various issues, most notably the scandal of former Dean of Medicine Shiu-kum Lam. Lam was accused of fraud during his tenure as Dean of Medicine between 2001 and 2007. From 2003 to 2009, Lam defrauded HKU donors by making them pay HKD3.8 million to his private company, and transferred most of the amount to his personal account. He also deceived his patients at Queen Mary Hospital, asking them to pay their medical bills to his private company while using notes and receipts bearing letterheads of HKU and the hospital.[17] [18] Lam was sentenced to 25 months in jail in 2009, but was released after spending only 11 months behind bars.[19] Lee was described as an "outsider" who could bring a "new climate" to the governance of the Faculty.[20] [21] The same year, he also joined the Board of the Hospital Authority in his new position.[22]

In 2011, Lee was endowed with the Dexter H C Man Family Professorship in Medical Science.[23] [24]

Lee's deanship was marked by the launch of new departments and the incorporation of humanities into medical education and research. He led the founding of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine in 2009[25] and the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law in 2012,[26] and the introduction of medical humanities into HKU's undergraduate medical curriculum in 2012.[26] The School of Chinese Medicine, School of Public Health and School of Nursing were established or reformed, and the Bachelor for Pharmacy programme was rolled out under his watch.[26]

Towards the end of his tenure, Lee oversaw the establishment of 2 new hospitals affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine. In 2008,[27] [28] as Grace Wai-king Tang, the then-President of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, was having an end-of-term visit at China's Ministry of Health, she relayed Lee's request for a teaching hospital in Mainland China.[29] HKU and the Shenzhen government formally went into an agreement in 2009.[30] Initially named Binhai Hospital,[31] it was renamed the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital in 2010,[32] and opened on 1 July 2012.[33]

In 2013, Singapore-based Parkway Pantai and NWS Holdings, a Hong Kong company, partnered in a joint venture for a new private, for-profit hospital (now Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital) in Hong Kong.[34] The Faculty of Medicine was brought in as a clinical partner, responsible for clinical governance, appointment of doctors and healthcare staff training,[34] [35] while Parkway Pantai and NWS would manage the hospital.[3] It would also be a teaching partner hospital of the Faculty.[36]

Lee retired in August 2013, when his 5-year term as Dean ended,[7] and left the Board of the Hospital Authority.[37] He remains a Professor Emeritus at the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine.[10]

Honours and awards

The Lee Sum Ping Medical Humanities Enrichment Award at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, is named after Lee.[39]

Personal life

Lee became interested in poetry and literature in secondary school.[5] He kept composing poems and writing Chinese calligraphy after he turned to a medical career.[21] [40] [41]

Notes and References

  1. News: The Medical Faculty welcomes the Appointment of New Dean of Medicine . 19 May 2022 . . 20 February 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519065456/https://www.hku.hk/press/news_detail_5719.html . 19 May 2022.
  2. 2013 . 18 . 1 . On Things Desired: From Both Sides Now . Medical Faculty News . Hong Kong . Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong . 20 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520032149/https://www.med.hku.hk/f/newsletter/1540/v18i1.pdf . 20 May 2022.
  3. News: Tsang . Emily . Lo . Wei . New hospital hungry for medical talent . 23 May 2022 . . 13 August 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523072151/https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1296195/new-hospital-hungry-medical-talent . 23 May 2022.
  4. News: 2-hour chat turned poet into professor . 19 May 2022 . South China Morning Post . 2 November 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519040659/https://www.scmp.com/article/697137/2-hour-chat-turned-poet-professor . 19 May 2022 . ... summer of 1963 and Lee, then 16 ....
  5. Wong . Tim . 2008 . 39 . 2 . An Interview with our New Dean Professor Sum-ping Lee . Caduceus . . Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong . 19 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519040248/https://www.med.hku.hk/85caduceus/160.pdf . 19 May 2022.
  6. Lee . Sum Ping . 1977 . The gallbladder epithelium in experimental cholelithiasis . PhD . Acknowledgement . . https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/3178/01front.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y . 19 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519084534/https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/2292/3178/01front.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y . 19 May 2022.
  7. 2013 . 18 . 2 . MBBS Class 1970 Reunion . Medical Faculty News . Hong Kong . Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong . 20 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520031927/https://www.med.hku.hk/f/newsletter/1541/v18i2.pdf . 20 May 2022.
  8. Lee . Sum Ping . 2013 . Summer . Reflections on the Closing of 2008 . Medical Faculty News . Hong Kong . Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong . 20 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520033028/https://www.med.hku.hk/f/newsletter/1527/v13i3.pdf . 20 May 2022.
  9. Lee . Sum Ping . 2013 . Summer . The Summing Up - Farewell Lecture by Professor Lee Sum-ping . Convocation Newsletter . Hong Kong . University of Hong Kong . 19 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519065620/http://www.daao.hku.hk/fbook/cnews/2013summer/files/assets/common/downloads/files/cnews2013summerfulls.pdf?uni=4702c55ac8bcd208f3a45e2418815b81 . 19 May 2022.
  10. Web site: Sum P. Lee, MD, PhD . 20 May 2022 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520081147/https://gastro.uw.edu/faculty/sum-p-lee-md-phd . 20 May 2022.
  11. Berry . Rita . Assessment trends in Hong Kong: seeking to establish formative assessment in an examination culture . Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice . 2011 . 18 . 2 . 199–211 . 10.1080/0969594X.2010.527701 . 143451295 . 20 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520031101/https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/pure-data/pub/201710717.pdf . 20 May 2022.
  12. News: 政情：李心平嘆醫科生太功利 . 20 May 2022 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519035407/http://the-sun.on.cc/cnt/news/20091102/00408_002.html . 19 May 2022 . zh.
  13. News: Professor Lee Sum Ping appointed as Dean of the HKU Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine . 20 May 2022 . University of Hong Kong . 20 February 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519040315/https://www.hku.hk/press/news_detail_5718.html . 19 May 2022.
  14. The gallbladder epithelium in experimental cholelithiasis. Lee. Sum Ping. PhD thesis. ResearchSpace@Auckland. 1977. 2292/3178 .
  15. Lee . Sum-ping . 1981 . Mucous substances in experimental cholelithiasis . MD . Acknowledgement . University of Hong Kong . https://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/27102 . 20 May 2022 . 10.5353/th_b3198115 . 12 April 2024 . 10722/27102 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520035936/https://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/27102 . 20 May 2022.
  16. Web site: Meet our Division Heads . University of Washington School of Medicine . 20 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520082137/https://gastro.uw.edu/about/about . 20 May 2022.
  17. News: Ex-HKU medical school dean jailed for 25 months . 27 March 2020 . South China Morning Post . 4 September 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200327213915/https://www.scmp.com/article/691482/ex-hku-medical-school-dean-jailed-25-months . 27 March 2020.
  18. 3 September 2009 . 「港大」前醫學院院長行為失當判囚二十五個月 . Hong Kong . . 6 September 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090906090220/http://www.icac.org.hk/tc/news_and_events/pr2/index_uid_829.html . 6 September 2009 . zh.
  19. News: Lee . Ella . Ex-medical dean freed early from prison term . 27 March 2020 . South China Morning Post . 11 August 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200327213915/http://www.scmp.com/article/721835/ex-medical-dean-freed-early-prison-term . 27 March 2020.
  20. News: HKU names outsider as new medical faculty dean . 21 May 2022 . South China Morning Post . 21 February 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220521142144/https://www.scmp.com/article/626952/hku-names-outsider-new-medical-faculty-dean . 21 May 2022.
  21. 2 June 2012 . 文學醫人 李心平 . . Hong Kong . 22 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220521141856/https://eastweek.my-magazine.me/main/20093 . 21 May 2022 . zh.
  22. News: Hospital Authority Chairman Anthony Wu re-appointed . 19 May 2022 . . 14 November 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519041907/https://www.news.gov.hk/isd/ebulletin/en/category/healthandcommunity/081114/html/081114en05001.htm . 19 May 2022.
  23. Web site: Dexter H C Man Family Professorship in Medical Science . University of Hong Kong . 19 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519064129/https://www.daao.hku.hk/ephku/en/Professorship-Detail/25-Dexter-H-C-Man-Family-Professorship-In-Medical-Science.html . 19 May 2022.
  24. Web site: Professor Lee, Sum Ping 李心平 . University of Hong Kong . 23 October 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131023135107/https://hub.hku.hk/cris/rp/rp01351 . 23 October 2013.
  25. Web site: Welcome . Centre for the Humanities and Medicine, University of Hong Kong . 23 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523064910/https://chm.hku.hk/ . 23 May 2022.
  26. 2013 . 18 . 1 . The Human Face of Medicine . Medical Faculty News . Hong Kong . Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong . 20 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520032149/https://www.med.hku.hk/f/newsletter/1540/v18i1.pdf . 20 May 2022.
  27. 2016 . 18 . 1 . "Failure Is Not An Option" . University of Hong Kong Bulletin . Hong Kong . University of Hong Kong . 23 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523032307/https://www4.hku.hk/pubunit/Bulletin/2016_Oct_Vol.18_No.1/people/page3.html . 23 May 2022.
  28. Web site: Past Presidents . Hong Kong Academy of Medicine . 23 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523032121/https://www.hkam.org.hk/en/governance . 23 May 2022.
  29. 2021 . 26 . 2 . Fruitful Engagement with Mainland China . Medical Faculty News . Hong Kong . Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong . 23 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523070124/https://www.med.hku.hk/assets/ebooks/v26i2/files/assets/common/downloads/HKUMed%20MFN%20v26i2.pdf . 23 May 2022.
  30. News: HKU and Shenzhen sign two agreements on hospital and technological collaborations . 23 May 2022 . University of Hong Kong . 30 November 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523034156/https://www.hku.hk/press/news_detail_6067.html . 23 May 2022.
  31. News: Lee . Ella . HKU Shenzhen Hospital shuns mainland habits . 23 May 2022 . South China Morning Post . 22 March 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523032231/https://www.scmp.com/article/709315/hku-shenzhen-hospital-shuns-mainland-habits . 23 May 2022.
  32. News: 正男 . 何 . 2019 . 49 . 誰的中大？： 大灣區建設與中文大學的未來 . CUHK Student Press . . 23 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523061829/http://cusp.hk/?p=8336 . 23 May 2022.
  33. 2012 . 17 . 2 . HKU-Shenzhen Hospital Goes into Operation . Medical Faculty News . Hong Kong . Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong . 23 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523064929/https://www.med.hku.hk/f/newsletter/1538/v17i2.pdf . 23 May 2022.
  34. 13 March 2013 . GHK Hospital Limited awarded the Wong Chuk Hang private hospital site . Hong Kong . . 23 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523070847/https://gleneagles.hk/press-media/ghk-hospital-limited-awarded-the-wong-chuk-hang-private-hospital-site . 23 May 2022.
  35. News: 政府批地建醫院 肥了鄭家純 . 23 May 2022 . . 14 March 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523070957/https://collection.news/appledaily/articles/ZCEZGYBERLW4PN3RX6A6WEZW4M . 23 May 2022 . zh.
  36. 13 March 2013 . GHK Hospital Limited awarded the Wong Chuk Hang private hospital site . Hong Kong . Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong . 23 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523072145/https://www.med.hku.hk/news/press/ghk-hospital-limited-awarded-the-wong-chuk-hang-private-hospital-site . 23 May 2022.
  37. 26 July 2013 . Appointment to Hospital Authority . Hong Kong . Hospital Authority . 19 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519041108/https://www.fhb.gov.hk/en/press_and_publications/press/2013/press130726.htm . 19 May 2022.
  38. 29 December 2010 . Dean Professor Lee Sum-ping Received Two Distinguished Awards for International Recognition for His Achievements in Scientific Research and Patient Care . Hong Kong . Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong . 19 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519063337/https://www.med.hku.hk/news/press/dean-professor-lee-sum-ping-received-two-distinguished-awards-for-international-recognition-for-his-achievements-in-scientific-research-and-patient-care . 19 May 2022.
  39. Web site: Lee Sum Ping Medical Humanities Enrichment Award . University of Hong Kong . 19 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519063253/https://www.scholarships.hku.hk/Scholarships/detail/491 . 19 May 2022.
  40. 2011 . 12 . 1 . Injecting a Dose of Humanity . University of Hong Kong Bulletin . Hong Kong . University of Hong Kong . 22 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220522030507/https://www4.hku.hk/pubunit/Bulletin/2011_Jan_Vol.12_No.1/people/page2.html . 22 May 2022.
  41. 3 March 2013 . 3.3 HKU Body Donation Day: Selfless contributions of body donors for the advancement of medicine and the benefit of patients and their families . Hong Kong . University of Hong Kong . 22 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220522031239/https://www.hku.hk/press/press-releases/detail/9284.html . 22 May 2022.

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