My Life in Medicine: A Hong Kong Journey by Yuen, Kwok-Yung

My Life in Medicine: A Hong Kong Journey

A memoir from a medical hero and political advisor who faced immense public and personal challenges during...
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Author: Kwok-Yung Yuen
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My Life in Medicine: A Hong Kong Journey by Yuen, Kwok-Yung

My Life in Medicine: A Hong Kong Journey

€97,58

My Life in Medicine: A Hong Kong Journey

€97,58
Author: Kwok-Yung Yuen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A memoir from a medical hero and political advisor who faced immense public and personal challenges during SARS and the COVID-19 pandemic.

From humble beginnings in Hong Kong, Yuen Kwok-Yung rose to international prominence as a doctor, surgeon, academic, and microbiologist. As an advisor to governments, he and colleagues made discoveries that helped the world cope with unprecedented threats to public health, including the COVID-19 pandemic. In this compelling memoir, Dr. Yuen weaves personal stories with those from his extraordinary medical career to take readers on an inspiring journey about perseverance, courage, faith, and the ongoing peril of infectious diseases.


Author: Kwok-Yung Yuen
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 07/06/2024
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9789888842933

About the Author
Yuen Kwok-Yung(袁國勇), Henry Fok Professor and Chair in Infectious Diseases of the Department of Microbiology at The University of Hong Kong, is a physician, virologist, microbiologist, and medical and scientific researcher. He has published extensively on microbes and emerging infectious diseases. His team attended to the first SARS patients and isolated the virus from their clinical specimens in 2003, and in 2020, Yuen Kwok-Yung led the team to discover the person-to-person transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 that causes the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2005, he was appointed by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China to serve as the founding co-director of the State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases at HKU, China's first State Key Laboratory outside the mainland.


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