A Formative History of Integrative Medicine in Hong Kong

TY - JOUR

T1 - A Formative History of Integrative Medicine in Hong Kong

AU - Yu, Edwin Chau leung

AU - BIAN, Zhaoxiang

N1 - Funding Information: After him, the HKAIM presidency was succeeded by Dr. WONG TAAM Vivian Chi-woon (2008–2012). Dr. Wong is a college fellow of 3 disciplines: Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Internal Medicine and Public Health. She was Hospital Chief Executive of Queen Mary Hospital and worked once as Chief Executive in the HA. Dr. Wong was appointed JP in 1999 and received honorary fellowship from the Open University of Hong Kong in 2006 and awarded as Honorary University Fellow of HKU in 2007. Being Honorary Professor in SCM at the HKU, Dr. Wong offered and started the endowed professorship in IM in the SCM. She is most concerned with promoting ethical standards in the Clinical Trials Centre. She conducted a randomized controlled trial (RCT) on the effectiveness of acupuncture in induction of labor in the mid 1970s, and worked on the effect of qigong in cancer, diabetes and hypertension and the use of taichi to prevent fall in the elderly. With her experience as public health specialist in Policy and Research at the World Bank and Consultant to World Health organization (WHO), she is Advisor to the Good Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine Research in the Post-genomic Era Consortium of the European Union and Co-chair for the Informatics Group of the Consortium for Globalization of Chinese Medicine (CGCM) and a member of the Board of Directors of Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine. She was instrumental when working as the CM Department of HA for the early development of the Chinese Medicine Centres for Training and Research (CMCTR). Funding Information: Currently these four presidents have become the Honorary Presidents of the HKAIM. The immediate past president is Prof. BIAN Zhao-xiang. He has been the Director of Clinical Division, SCM in HKBM. Prof. Bian is awarded Tsang Shiu Tim Endowed Chair of Chinese Medicine Clinical Studies. He is the Associate Dean and Chair Professor of Teaching and Research Division in HKBU. He is instrumental in the development of the CM hospital in Hong Kong. His leadership drives up to the establishment of the HKBU Jockey Club Chinese Medicine Disease Prevention and Health Management Centre. He is also the Honorary Professor of the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. He has been awarded second prize of National Science and Technology Award of China in 1999. He is the reviewer of several grants, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Research Grant Council of Hong Kong, China. He also serves as a reviewer or editorial board member for many international journals. His main interest is on the relationship between psychological stress and digestive diseases, especially on colorectal cancer, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBO) and related new drug discovery. Prof. Bian excels in clinical trial design, implementation and reporting with CM, and these studies have been published in the Annals of Medicine. Funding Information: The Innovational and Technology Fund of ITC, the Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF), and the Research Grants Council (RGC) provide good funding sources. Researches range from studies on attitudes and behaviors towards the use of CM, integrated approach to treatment using CM and WM for diseases, understanding the mechanism and application of herbs in diseases, and better designs to study the efficacy of CM and IM, and better rehabilitative and palliative management. Another direction is to develop new useful CM products, and finding active ingredients from herbs. Funders would emphasize the purpose of such researches, the basic and clinical research contributions, and the impact to combine the research outputs into practice. The better defined the local needs together with success to advance into international domains will draw better support.

PY - 2019/6/1

Y1 - 2019/6/1

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067940564&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s11655-019-3160-1

DO - 10.1007/s11655-019-3160-1

M3 - Article

C2 - 31236846

AN - SCOPUS:85067940564

SN - 1672-0415

VL - 25

SP - 403

EP - 408

JO - Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine

JF - Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine

IS - 6

ER -