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another son of jamaica and st georges colege Dr Hrbert Ho Ping Kong on 25th September 2010, 4:42 am
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Another son of Jamaica and St. George's College was recently honoured (October 17th), this one in Toronto. In the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton Centre, downtown Toronto, and attended by over 400 of his peers, family, friends, students, and fellow physicians, the work of the 'legendary' Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong was celebrated.
Through the course of over twenty-five years of medical teaching, Dr. Ho Ping Kong has received numerous hospital based teaching awards, university departmental teaching awards, and faculty wide teaching awards at the University of Toronto. Most prestigious of these were the Dr. Mary E. Hollington Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Final Medical Year in 1989, and the Aikins Award for Individual Excellence in Undergraduate Clinical Teaching in 1990. In 1999, he was awarded the most prestigious 3M Teaching Excellence Award of Canada, placing him at the top of the teaching pyramid across all university disciplines throughout the nation. In 2003 he was awarded the distinguished lifetime Osler Award of excellence by the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine for exemplary practice and teaching of general internal medicine.
Quoting from The Globe & Mail Saturday Nov 21, "Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong, the diminutive HPK - as he is known to his peers - is in medical circles a giant, a diagnostic magician with an encyclopedic memory and a winning bedside manner. But the titles and accolades don't begin to encompass the range of his achievements. Nearly two generations of his disciples are now teaching and practising in universities and hospitals around the world."
To top the night off, the University Hospital Network announced that the recently created Centre for Excellence in Education and Practice (CEEP) would be renamed the Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong Centre for Excellence in Education and Practice. CEEP was founded in September 2008 by Dr. Rodrigo Cavalcanti and Dr Herbert Ho Ping Kong to serve as an incubator for innovative practice oriented programs in medical education, to provide support for senior trainees in academic general Internal medicine, and to recruit and train staff in high level General Internal Medicine consulting practice.
The highly successful fundraising event was capped off by an anonymous donation of C$2,500,000.
Well done, "Herbie'.
On hand to share in this celebration of Herbie's work were his life-long friend Ray Chang (who toasted him), Donette Chin Loy, Robbie and Heather Vernon, Danny and Jo Jo HoLung, Vernon and Tanya Hugh, myself and Charmaine.
Ray in his tribute referenced St. George's College several times and there was no doubt the influence of this Jesuit learning institution on Herbie and himself and indeed, the other Georgians in the room. I felt proud to see, at this function, three StGC Ontario Chapter Alumni inductees into our schools Hall of Fame; Herbie, Ray & Robbie, who have all learned to bloom where they have been transplanted.
Ray also read a tribute from the Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Hon Bruce Golding, himself a St.George's graduate.
Through the course of over twenty-five years of medical teaching, Dr. Ho Ping Kong has received numerous hospital based teaching awards, university departmental teaching awards, and faculty wide teaching awards at the University of Toronto. Most prestigious of these were the Dr. Mary E. Hollington Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Final Medical Year in 1989, and the Aikins Award for Individual Excellence in Undergraduate Clinical Teaching in 1990. In 1999, he was awarded the most prestigious 3M Teaching Excellence Award of Canada, placing him at the top of the teaching pyramid across all university disciplines throughout the nation. In 2003 he was awarded the distinguished lifetime Osler Award of excellence by the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine for exemplary practice and teaching of general internal medicine.
Quoting from The Globe & Mail Saturday Nov 21, "Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong, the diminutive HPK - as he is known to his peers - is in medical circles a giant, a diagnostic magician with an encyclopedic memory and a winning bedside manner. But the titles and accolades don't begin to encompass the range of his achievements. Nearly two generations of his disciples are now teaching and practising in universities and hospitals around the world."
To top the night off, the University Hospital Network announced that the recently created Centre for Excellence in Education and Practice (CEEP) would be renamed the Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong Centre for Excellence in Education and Practice. CEEP was founded in September 2008 by Dr. Rodrigo Cavalcanti and Dr Herbert Ho Ping Kong to serve as an incubator for innovative practice oriented programs in medical education, to provide support for senior trainees in academic general Internal medicine, and to recruit and train staff in high level General Internal Medicine consulting practice.
The highly successful fundraising event was capped off by an anonymous donation of C$2,500,000.
Well done, "Herbie'.
On hand to share in this celebration of Herbie's work were his life-long friend Ray Chang (who toasted him), Donette Chin Loy, Robbie and Heather Vernon, Danny and Jo Jo HoLung, Vernon and Tanya Hugh, myself and Charmaine.
Ray in his tribute referenced St. George's College several times and there was no doubt the influence of this Jesuit learning institution on Herbie and himself and indeed, the other Georgians in the room. I felt proud to see, at this function, three StGC Ontario Chapter Alumni inductees into our schools Hall of Fame; Herbie, Ray & Robbie, who have all learned to bloom where they have been transplanted.
Ray also read a tribute from the Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Hon Bruce Golding, himself a St.George's graduate.
