| Dr. WANG Haoxiang Wins Two Conference Awards at the 24th Meeting of the ISH and the 44th APACPH Conference | |
| Dr. WANG, Haoxiang Harry, Lecturer of JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, has recently been awarded two conference awards in October 2012. Dr. WANG was granted the 'Young Investigator Fellowship' with a Young Investigator Grant of the Asia Pacific Society of Hypertension, for his conference paper orally presented at the 24th Meeting of the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) held in Sydney, Australia. Prior to this Fellowship award, Dr. WANG was conferred with Research Fellow of the ISH in early August this year in recognition of his research outputs. Dr. WANG was also an award holder of the 'Young Investigator Travel Award' for his conference paper orally presented at the 44th Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. At the 24th Meeting of the ISH, Dr. WANG delivered an oral presentation on a previous study with his research collaborators in mainland China on a community-based chronic disease screening and management project among hypertensive patients in southern China, under the session on 'Primary Care – Meeting the Needs of the Clinic' on the first day of the main conference. Dr. WANG was also invited to the ISH Symposium – Bridging the Gap, where he met the Convenor - Professor Graham Watt, the Norie-Miller Professor of General Practice, University of Glasgow, UK, and some other eminent clinicians, researchers and policy makers from around the world who had an in-depth discussion and knowledge sharing with a particular emphasis on primary care. At the 44th APACPH Conference, Dr. WANG delivered an oral presentation based on part of the results from his doctoral research (supervised by Prof. Martin WONG and Prof. Sian GRIFFITHS) on the comparison of primary care organisational models in Pearl River Delta, China, which was later awarded JC SPHPC 'The Best Ph.D. Thesis Award 2012'. The 44th APACPH Conference Academic Committee was highly impressed by Dr. WANG's work on primary care and found his research to be significant and particularly relevant to today. |
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