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Year Orator Lecture Title Year Orator Lecture Title

1969 Professor Sir John Bruce, UK Retrospect and Prospect: Reflections on 2001 Professor Masatoshi Makuuchi, Japan Problem of Liver Transplantation in Asia

Surgical Practice and Education and Their Solutionss
1970 Dr Teoh Tiaw-Bee, Hong Kong The Pathologist and Surgical Pathology of 2002 Professor Thomas Russell, USA The Globalisation of Surgical Care:
Head and Neck Tumours The American College of Surgeons’ Role

1972 Professor WC MacKenzie, Canada Surgery in the Undergraduate Medical 2003 Dr William Ho, Hong Kong Reflections on SARS - Both Sides Now

Curriculum: To Be or Not To Be? 2004 Dr Alice Lam, Hong Kong High Education - Changes and Opportunities
1972 Professor Daphne Chun, Hong Kong Choriocarcinoma in Hong Kong 2005 Dr Victor Fung, Hong Kong Nurturing Our Future Generations
1973 Dr HB Torrance, UK Modern Trends in the Surgery of 2006 Mr Vincent Cheng, Hong Kong What’s Ailing Asia - One Banker’s Perspective

the Biliary Tract and Pancreas 2007 Professor York Chow, Hong Kong Surgical Approaches and

1974 Professor Ho Hung-Chiu, Hong Kong The Epidemiology of Nasopharyngeal Public Administration
Carcinoma 2008 Mr John Chan, Hong Kong Customer Service and the Medical Profession
1976 Professor HW Scott, USA The Surgical Management of Patients 2010 Professor Edward Chen, Hong Kong A New Global Economy after

with Morbid Obesity the Financial Tsunami

1976 Professor Brian Lofts, Hong Kong Testicular Function: 2011 Mr Philip Chen, Hong Kong Great Cities
A Comparative Viewpoint 2012 Mr Anthony Wu, Hong Kong A Recipe for Disaster Leadership
1978 Dr KC McKeown, UK Surgical Treatment of Cancer of 2013 Dr Ko Wing-Man, Hong Kong Health Reform - A Balancing Act

the Oesophagus 2014 Dr Chan Sze-Tong, Hong Kong The Surgeon as Humanitarian

1978 Dr George Choa, Hong Kong Surgical Management of Chronic Suppurative 2015 Mr Norman Chan, Hong Kong Who Would Mortgage Their Children
Otitis Media 2016 Dr Allan Zeman, Hong Kong Turning I Wish into I Will –
1979 Professor Sir Edward Hughes, Australia Which Surgeons? The Future of Hong Kong

1980 Professor Henry Ngan, Hong Kong Radiology of the Liver - From a Local 2017 Mr Jack So, Hong Kong Keep Hong Kong Flying High

Viewpoint 2018 Professor Frederick Ma, Hong Kong The Grey Swan Crisis: Our Aging Population
1982 Professor FJ Gillingham, UK The Surgical Management of Ruptured 2019 Professor Xiang Zhang, Hong Kong Creating Materials that Do Not Exist in
Intracranial Aneurysms - A Thirty-year Study Nature: From Invisibility Cloak to

1982 Professor James Gibson, Hong Kong Primary Cancers of the Liver Super Lens Imaging

1987 Dr Thong Kah-Leong, Hong Kong Medical and Health System with 2023 Mr Henry Fan, Hong Kong HA – From Success to Victim of Success
Special Reference to Hong Kong – What’s next?
1999 Professor Leong Che-Hung, Hong Kong The Hong Kong Surgeons in 2024 Mr Jason Chiu, Hong Kong Harnessing Failures and Meta-Learning in

the New Millennium the Age of AI

2000 Professor Sir Harry Fang, Hong Kong The Knife is not Enough 2025 Dr Peter Wong, Hong Kong Reinforcing Hong Kong’s Internationalism

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