Workshop on Biobank Governance: An Asian Perspective

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Message from Centre for Medical Ethics and Law

Date: Tuesday, 20 May 2014
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Venue: Mrs Chen Yang Foo Oi Telemedicine Centre, 2/F, Room A2-08, William MW Mong Block, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, HK

Keynote Speaker:
Professor Bartha Maria Knoppers
Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine
Director of Centre of Genomics and Policy
McGill University, Canada

Guest Speakers:
Professor Tohru Masui, Professor, Center of Clinical Genetics, Keio University, Japan
Professor Chang Ly-yun, Former member of the steering committee on ELSI for National Research Programme for Genomic Medicine, Taiwan
Dr. Chih-hsing Ho, Assistant Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Dr. Calvin WL Ho, Assistant Professor, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Dr. Qian Wan, Director of Consortium Network and Director of E-BioBank in China National GeneBnak, China
Mr. Chan Tuck Wai, Senior Associate Director and Secretariat of the Institutional Review Board (IRB), National University of Singapore

About the Workshop:
How to govern biobanks has been the subject of much attention and debate in recent years. Since the completion of the draft of the human genome sequence in 2000, new discoveries in genomics have posed new challenges to existing regulatory and legal frameworks at both national and global levels. Genomics has laid the foundations for new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the treatment of human diseases. It has also introduced new possibilities for regenerative medicine and a new form of ethics in the development of bio-technoscience. This rapid scientific advancement is accompanied by important issues related to ethical, legal and social implications, such as harmonization and the sharing of data across national borders, ownership and proprietary rights surrounding the secondary use of data and samples, genetic discrimination and stigmatisation, informed consent, privacy and data protection. As a result, traditional legal and regulatory instruments may no longer be adequate for governing biobanks as genomic science moves forward. This workshop aims to provide a forum for experts from different disciplines (medicine, law, bioethics, and philosophy) and jurisdictions (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan) to exchange views and experience on biobank governance in order to further explore possible solutions for challenges of the governance of this newly emerging biotechnology. There will be a keynote address delivered by Professor Bartha Maria Knoppers, Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy (CGP), McGill University, as part of the programme.

For registration and programme details, please visit http://www.cmel.hku.hk/events-details/workshop-biobank-governance-asian-perspective

Should you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact Ms. Polly Yiu by email at cmel@hku.hk or by phone at 3917 1845

Public Seminars on Chinese Medicine Culture

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Public Seminars on Chinese Medicine Culture 認識中醫文化系列講座

Seminar 1:

Topic: Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine – The Cultural Differences between the Two Medical Systems
Speaker: Dr. Li Lei, Assistant Professor, School of Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
Date: May 20, 2014 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:30pm~1:20pm
Venue: KB111, Knowles Building, The University of Hong Kong
Language: Putonghua

Details and registration (IN CHINESE ONLY)

為加強各界人士對中醫藥文化的認識，香港大學中醫藥學院將於5月20日至7月2日舉行「認識中醫文化系列講座」，合共七場。講者會從中國傳統文化的角度向大家介紹中國傳統醫藥的基礎理論和醫療特色。

第一場講座

題目：中醫與西醫 – 兩種醫學體系的文化差異
講者：香港大學中醫藥學院助理教授李磊博士

日期：2014年5月20日(星期二)
時間：12:30pm~1:20pm
地點：香港大學鈕魯詩樓111室 (KB111)
語言：普通話
對象：對中醫文化有興趣之人士
名額：60位 (敬備茶點)
參加方法：即場免費登記，先到先得
查詢電話: 5647 3428 (哲學博士生羅小姐)

內容簡介：中西醫學產生於不同的社會背景和文化土壤，代表著東西方兩種完全不同的醫學體系。現代西醫屬於自然科學的範疇，傳統中醫則是哲學化的醫學，屬於「國學」，具有哲學和自然科學的雙重特徵。因此，學習、研究和發展中醫必須要首先瞭解傳統中醫的學科性質，熟悉傳統中醫理論體系賴以建構的哲學基礎，才能對傳統中醫理論的實際內涵有著正確的把握。

第二場講座

題目為《醫學現象與哲學思維 – 傳統中醫的人文特徵》，將於2014年5月27日(星期二)舉行。有關其他講座詳情，請瀏覽學院網頁http://www.scm.hku.hk。

CHER Seminar: Do students have freedom to learn at university?

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Community of Higher Education Research (CHER)

Do students have freedom to learn at university?

Presenter: Bruce Macfarlane
Chair: Anatoly Oleksiyenko
Discussant: Bob Adamson, HKIEd

20 May, 2014, 12.45pm-2.00pm
Room 203, Runme Shaw Building, HKU

Abstract:

Universities have become performative environments in response to the pressures of the audit culture. Whilst the implications for academic life are well documented, students are also subject to demands that audit their learning in increasingly behavioural rather than cognitive terms. Specifically, this includes rules on class attendance, (presenteeism), class and peer participation as part of learning and assessment regimes (learnerism) and requirements to demonstrate commitment to normative social agendas such as global citizenship and sustainability (soulcraft). Drawing on a recent survey of HKU students, it is argued that student performativity is transforming learning at university from a private space into a public performance with adverse consequences for student academic freedom.

About the speaker:

Bruce Macfarlane is Professor of Higher Education at HKU and Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Education. His books (with Routledge) include Teaching with Integrity, The Academic Citizen, Researching with Integrity and Intellectual Leadership in Higher Education. His new book, Freedom to Learn will be published in 2015.

~ All are Welcome! ~

The Community for Higher Education Research is designed to bring together researchers in any area of higher education research for exchange and critical dialogue.

CAES Seminar: Gender issues for second language education: implications for English teachers in higher education

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Dear All,

We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Jane Sunderland from the Lancaster University, UK will give a talk at 4:30pm on 21st May 2014 (Wednesday) at CPD2.58. The title of the talk is “Gender issues for second language education: implications for English teachers in higher education”.

You are cordially invited to this seminar, the details of which can be found in the poster below. If it is not shown properly, please click here.

Since places are limited, please register for the talk by 9th May via the following link: http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?UEID=30248&guest=Y.

We look forward to seeing you in this event.

Regards

Centre for Applied English Studies
The University of Hong Kong

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MEL Seminar “Computing Genomic and Health Data in the “Clouds”?: ELSI Challenges”

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Prof. Bartha M. Knoppers,
Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine,
Director, Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University

Date: 21 May 2014
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Venue:  Room A824, 8/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong

Abstract

Big Data computation will increasingly use commercial cloud providers such as Google, Microsoft or Amazon as the locus of analysis due to the sheer size of datasets. Modern biomedical research is international and collaborative and combines many sources of data (e.g. medical; demographic; genetic; environmental etc). Recent scandals (e.g. Snowden) surrounding governmental surveillance have raised concern among national governments, to say nothing of research participants-patients, regarding the security and privacy of their data in the “clouds”. What precisely are the issues specific to global biomedical research and is there cause for concern? Are there solutions?

Biography of speaker

Bartha Maria Knoppers, PhD (Comparative Medical Law), holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine (Tier 1: 2001 – ). She is Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics, McGill University. In 2007, she founded the international Population Project in Genomics and Society (P3G) and CARTaGENE Quebec’s population biobank (20,000 indiv.). Former holder of the Chair d’excellence Pierre Fermat (France: 2006 – 2008), she was named Distinguished Visiting Scientist (Netherlands Genomics Initiative) (2009 – 2012) and received the ACFAS prize for multidisciplinarity (2011). She is Chair of the Ethics Working Party of the International Stem Cell Forum (2005 – ); Co-Chair of the Sampling/ELSI Committee of the 1000 Genomes Project (2007 – 2013); Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) (2009- ); Chair, Regulatory and Ethics Working Group – Co-Founder and Member, Transitional Steering Committee (TSC) of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. She holds four Doctorates Honoris Causa, is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of The Hastings Center (Bioethics) and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) and Officer of the Order of Canada and of Quebec. She also received an award “Prix Montreal In Vivo: Secteur des sciences de la vie et des technologies de la santé” in 2012 and in 2013 was named “Champion of Genetics” by the Canadian Gene Cure Foundation.

Please register online at

http://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?ueid=30561 .

CETL Seminar: Teaching and Learning Professionalism: Lessons learned from the medical school experience

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Organized by Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)

Speakers: Dr Julie Chen, Dr Weng Chin, Dr Colman Fung,
Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU
Date: 5th June, 2014 (Thursday)
Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Venue: Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building

Abstract:

Doctors, dentists, lawyers, teachers, business professionals are all expected to manifest professionalism, demonstrating attributes required for quality patient / client / student / customer care and service. Such professional attributes, including responsibility, honesty, respect, are expected to be acquired over the course of studies without necessarily being “taught,” but a quick look at newspaper headlines suggests that professional attitudes and behaviours in these professions could be further enhanced. A new longitudinal programme structured around early experiential learning in the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine was recently initiated with the support of a Teaching Development Grant (TDG) to explore how the learning of professionalism might be made explicit in the undergraduate medical curriculum. The speakers will share their experience in developing the “Professionalism in Practice” programme and the lessons learned which may be relevant to other disciplines.

About the Speakers:

Dr Julie Chen is a family physician who is currently the Chief of Undergraduate Education in the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care with a joint appointment to the Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education (IMHSE). Her academic interests include the learning of professionalism, the role of medical humanities in medical education, and the development of student resilience and wellbeing. She is the recipient of the 2012 Faculty Teaching Medal and the 2013 Outstanding Teaching Award (Team) and is the Principal Investigator of this TDG project.

Dr Weng Chin is a family physician and the Family Medicine Clerkships Coordinator in the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care also jointly appointed to IMHSE. She is primarily involved in undergraduate Family Medicine teaching, curriculum development and quality assurance of the undergraduate medical curriculum. She received the 2013 Faculty Teaching Medal and is a Co-investigator in this TDG.

Dr Colman Fung is a family physician and Coordinator of Clinical Services in the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care. He is involved in clinical Family Medicine teaching as well as in facilitating PBL tutorials and is a Co-investigator in this TDG.

For information on registration, please contact:
Ms Ivy Lai , CETL
Phone: 3917 8996; Email: laichun2@hku.hk.

CETL Seminar: Assuring and Enhancing Student Achievement: Getting the balance right

Organized by Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL)

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Speaker: Professor Brenda Smith, a Higher Education Consultant in the UK and an Academic Associate of the Higher Education Academy
Date : 28th May, 2014 (Wednesday)
Time : 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Venue : Room 321, Run Run Shaw Building

Abstract:

This seminar will explore how we can obtain direct evidence of student learning. However, we need to ensure that as well as “Assessment of Learning” we are using “Assessment for Learning”. Examples will be drawn from The University of Hong Kong In-house paper as well as examples from overseas. Practical ways of enhancing the student assessment experience will be discussed.

About the Speakers:

Brenda is a freelance Higher Education Consultant in the UK and an Academic Associate of the Higher Education Academy. Prior to this she was Assistant Director at the Higher Education Academy and former Head of the Generic Centre of the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN).

Across the UK and at national level, Brenda has been actively involved in assessment and feedback, the Scottish Quality Enhancement agenda, the Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning initiative (CETLs), change management, student engagement and the analysis of the Welsh institutional Learning and Teaching Strategies. She was also one of the first National Accreditors for the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILT) and was the originator of the Change Academy programme for the Higher Education Academy.

Brenda has been actively involved with over 70 Universities across the UK. She has run conferences, given keynote presentations and organized 24-hour events for universities that have included both staff and students.

She has been an external examiner for six UK University Post Graduate Certificate Programmes for new academic staff and has been a member of many Validation Degree Panels.

She is an editorial member for the journal “Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education” and a past Executive member of the Professional and Organizational Development Association (POD) in America.

Brenda has acted as a consultant in many different countries including Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa, Singapore, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Poland, Taiwan, Azerbaijan, America, Lithuania, Colombia, the West Indies, Ethiopia and Malaysia.

Brenda has written widely on learning, teaching and assessment.

For information on registration, please contact:
Ms Ivy Lai , CETL
Phone: 3917 8996; Email: laichun2@hku.hk.

The art of medicine: the humanistic care of a person with stroke

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The art of medicine: the humanistic care of a person with stroke

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Guest Seminar given by

Dr Joseph Kwan

Clinical Associate Professor in Geriatric Medicine (Honorary Consultant)
MRCP and PACES examiner (UK)

Abstract:

What is it like to have a stroke? To suddenly lose the function of the body, mind, communication and freedom, the person undergoes catastrophic physical and psychological trauma. The good news is that many do get better, but the prognosis can be variable. However, when they lose hope and feel that this state could be permanent, some people regard this as worse than dying, and react in unexpected ways. As clinicians, when we try to imagine and understand what it is like to have a stroke, then we can begin to understand what the patient and family are going through, and how we can better care for the person in front of us. In my talk, I aim to help us think about how we can treat people with empathy, compassion and hope, and ensuring that they receive the dignity and respect that they deserve – the art of medicine.

Seminar Details:

Date: May 7, 2014 (Wednesday)
Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Venue: Mrs Chen Yang Foo Oi Telemedicine Centre
2/F, Room A2-08, William M.W. Mong Block, Faculty of Medicine Building
21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam

Sandwiches will be provided. Please register at
https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?UEID=30417
All are welcome!!!

For any enquiry, please contact Mr Abel Lau at medhum@hku.hk

Dept of Comparative Literature: First Annual Postgraduate Conference/Workshop

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On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Piocos, Monteza Carlos III wrote:

The Research Postgraduates of Comparative Literature invites you to the:

First Annual Postgraduate Conference/Workshop

May 5, 2014
11 am – 4 pm
CRT 434

Return to Hong Kong (11-1 PM)

This panel discusses films and literature by Hong Kong artists, examining the idea of nostalgia in Hong Kong film and/or offering critical reinterpretations of well-known works. The four presentations will focus, respectively, on: 1) nostalgia in Peter Chan’s American Dreams in China in light of the Hong Kong – Mainland China relation, 2) the return of the ghost genre in recent film’s Rigor Mortis and Stolen Goods in view of Derrida’s concept of spectrality, 3) a critical appraisal of the Triad myth in film scholarship and Johnnie To’s gangster film Election, and 4) a rereading of Wong Bik-wan’s short story “Losing the City” in terms of political action and Hannah Arendt’s analysis of totalitarianism. This panel thus examines both the idea of ‘returning’ as it takes shape in Hong Kong cinema, and returns to specific local texts to dissect received notions about Hong Kong art, culture and politics.

The Place of Women in Modern China (1 – 2:30 PM)

Discourses of the late 20th century often promoted gender equality by ascribing “acceptable” roles for women in the changing political and social climates. This panel investigates that contradiction by examining the representation of women in three thematically and generically different sets of Chinese literature and film: the revolutionary novel and ballet The Red Detachment of Women (1961, 1970), the occupation-era spy-noir novella and film Lust, Caution (1979, 2007), and Ann Hui’s feminist comedies The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (2006) andAll About Love (2010). By juxtaposing these portrayals with contemporaneous social, academic, and political discussions of femininity, these papers identify fractures between media articulation of female roles and their actual lived experience during these three different periods of modern Chinese history.

Critical Methodologies (2:30 – 4 PM)

This panel looks at filmic productions from various methodologies of interactivity, deconstruction and ecocriticism. The three presentations demonstrate a range of hybrid and eclectic frameworks to investigate: 1.) notions of interactivity in avant-garde and pre-digital age of cultural production in Marcel Duchamp’s ouvre, 2.) ghostly presences of migrants-as-guests in world cinema through Derrida’s ideas on hospitality and spectrality; and 3.) Daoist philosophy in the ecocritical analysis of Chinese’ documentaries on urbanization. This panel attempts to offer various ways to approach questions on artistic production, violence of misrepresentation and current ecological concerns.

ALL ARE WELCOME

CITE & Faculty of Education Joint Workshop and Seminar by Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd

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CITE & Faculty of Education Joint Methodology Workshop –

Automated Discovery and Visualization of Formal and Informal Learning Networks from Social Media

Date: 5 May 2014 (Monday)
Time: 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Venue: Room 101, 1/F., Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd, Associate Professor at the School of Information Management, Director of the Social Media Lab, Dalhousie University

About the Workshop
As social creatures, our online lives just like our offline lives are intertwined with others within a wide variety of social networks. Each retweet on Twitter, comment on a blog or link to a Youtube video explicitly or implicitly connects one online participant to another and contributes to the formation of various information and social networks. Once discovered, these networks can provide researchers with an effective mechanism for identifying and studying collaborative processes within any online community. However, collecting information about online networks using traditional methods such as surveys can be very time consuming and expensive. This workshop will explore automated ways to discover and analyze various communication networks from social media data.
Please register at
http://www.cite.hku.hk/news.php?id=516&category=cite

CITE & Faculty of Education Joint Seminar –

Learning Analytics in the Age of Social Media

Date: 9 May 2014 (Friday)
Time: 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Venue: Room 101, 1/F., Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd, Associate Professor at the School of Information Management, Director of the Social Media Lab, Dalhousie University

About the Seminar
In just a short period of time, social media have altered many aspects of our daily lives, from how we form and maintain social relationships to how we discover, access and share information online. Now social media are also beginning to affect how we teach and learn in this increasingly interconnected and information-rich world. The use of social media has been growing in academic settings, with some surveys reporting adoption rates as high as 80% among university classrooms. However, the question remains, how do educators and learners know that their particular use of social media is beneficial to their teaching or learning? The objectives of this lecture is (1) to demonstrate the affordances and potential roles of social media in learning, as well as (2) to provide methods and measures that help researchers and educators evaluate the use of social media for teaching and learning based on automated analyses of social media texts and networks.

Please register at
http://www.cite.hku.hk/news.php?id=515&category=seminar

About the Speaker
Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Management at the Faculty of Management and the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University. He is also the Director of the Social Media Lab, a member of the Institute for Big Data Analytics at Dalhousie University and a co-editor of a new, multidisciplinary journal on Big Data and Society published by Sage.This year, Dr. Gruzd is co-organizing the 2014 Social Media & Society Conference and co-editing a special issue on Measuring Influence in Social Media for American Behavioral Scientist. The broad aim of Dr. Gruzd’s various research initiatives is to provide decision makers with additional knowledge and insights into the behaviours and relationships of online network members, and to understand how these interpersonal connections influence our personal choices and actions.His research and commentaries have been reported across Canada and internationally in various mass media outlets such as Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Times, Nature.com, The Atlantic, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, and The Canadian Press.