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姚连生外科讲座教授就职演讲 – 刘润皇教授主讲 :「消化道溃疡出血的治疗进化」

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日期:

2015年1月29日

時間:

下午五时三十分

地點:

新界沙田威尔斯亲王医院吕志和临床医学大楼二楼演讲厅

講者簡歷:

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Professor Lau Yun Wong James joined the Department of Surgery at the Prince of Wales Hospital in 1991 as a Medical Officer and then advanced to the position of Senior Medical Officer and later Consultant in 1998.  In 2006, he joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and in the following year became Professor of Surgery.

As an accomplished general surgeon, Professor James Lau has initiated and taken part in many valuable studies in collaboration with Professor Joseph Sung and the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics.  The quality and impact of his academic work have been of world-class.  He has settled the controversy over whether open surgery or endoscopic therapy would be a better treatment for recurrent bleeding peptic ulcers.  He started the use of an intravenous proton pump inhibitor for peptic ulcer bleeding, which is now a common practice around the world.  He has published three landmark papers in New England Journal of Medicine (2012 impact factor 51.658) as first author in 1999, 2000 and 2007 and another three as co-author.  He has become widely cited and gained an exceptional international reputation in his field.

Professor Lau was appointed the Director of Endoscopy in the Prince of Wales Hospital in 2003 in succession to Professor Sydney Chung, the former Dean of Medicine.  The Endoscopy Centre’s yearly-held International Endoscopy Symposium is extremely popular in the endoscopy community.  Surgeons and physicians working in the gastrointestinal tract from different countries regard the symposium as in the “must attend” category and this symposium has put CUHK and Hong Kong on the world map of endoscopy.  Under Professor Lau’s academic leadership, both the quality and quantity of research output from the centre have been outstanding. His contribution has been instrumental in the continuous success of the Department and the Endoscopy Centre. 

In 2000, Professor Lau went to Edinburgh for further training in Vascular Surgery.  This decision was made in order to establish the service of Vascular Surgery at the Prince of Wales Hospital.  At that time, vascular surgery service was provided by general surgeons.  As a Hospital Authority consultant and a trained upper gastrointestinal (GI) surgeon, Professor Lau took up the job and successfully established a vascular surgery team at the Department of Surgery on his return, to serve the public patients.  Currently, the team provides service covering the New Territories East Cluster and accepts referrals from across the territory. The quality of the service is highly regarded in the community.  In recent years, endovascular treatment has become a possibility for patients who are too sick to undergo open surgery.  The vascular surgery service, under the leadership of Professor Lau, has been using its private funds to support some of the cost of the stents used on public patients.  He has also solicited financial support from charity organizations in the community to help some of the programs that are not funded by the Hospital Authority.  These initiatives are solid proof of Professor Lau’s determination to serve the public through his work as a surgeon in the public sector.

All in all, Professor James Lau has a remarkable track record in basic science and clinical research in GI surgery and GI endoscopy, clinical standing as a local expert in vascular surgery and gastro-intestinal endoscopy, as well as record of publishing in high impact international journals.

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講座摘要:

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Bleeding peptic ulcer used to be a fatal disease.  Surgery was the only means of stopping bleeding in those who continue to bleed.  Morbidities and mortalities following surgery were high.  Endoscopic therapy was introduced in the 1980s.  It is now the cornerstone of the management of patients with this disease.  Quality endoscopic hemostatic treatment stops bleeding, reduces surgery and saves lives.  For over three decades, the Prince of Wales Hospital has been at the forefront of clinical research into the management of patients with bleeding peptic ulcers.  We published several landmark studies towards advancing care of such patients.  These studies became international standards.  Through this series of studies, we have dramatically reduced further bleeding and brought surgery and mortality figures from the disease to almost zero.