Prizes and Awards

The Department has an active research program and has dedicated laboratory facilities. Some of the main areas of research are applied clinical pharmacology and pharmacokinetics, obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia, cardiovascular and respiratory physiology, neuro-anaesthesia, post-operative analgesia, quality improvement and anaesthetic procedures for managing the airway. There is a diversity of research interests producing some 50 publications per year and consistent research awards from the ANZCA.

Year 2024

Prizes / Award	Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-field (2024) by Clarivate Analytics.
Name of Awardee	Prof. WU William K.K.

Year 2023

Prizes / Award	Society of Anaesthetists of Hong Kong 2023 Best Research Award (3^rd Prize) “Diagnostic test accuracy of preoperative nutritional screening tools in adults for malnutrition: a systematic review and network meta-analysis”
Name of Awardee	Prof. LEE Anna

Prizes / Award	American Society for Nutrition 2023 Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Science Poster Competition (2^nd Prize) “Association of frailty with preoperative malnutrition on quality of recovery after surgery” Authors: Cheung HHT, Chiu SLC, Joynt G, Lee A
Name of Awardee	CHEUNG Helen H.T.

Year 2022

Prizes / Award	First-class Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Natural Science) from the Ministry of Education (MoE) of China
Name of Awardee	Prof. WU William K.K.

Prizes / Award	Young Investigator Award (2022)
Name of Awardee	Prof ZHANG Lin

Year 2021

Prizes / Award	Young Researcher Award by The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Name of Awardee	Prof. WU William K.K.

Prizes / Award	Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field Bursary, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, USA
Title	Stimulation of the wrist acupuncture point P6 for preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting
Name of Awardee	Prof. LEE Anna

Year 2020

Prizes / Award	Best Original Research by Trainees – Gold Medal, the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
Name of Awardee	Dr. LING Lowell

Prizes / Award	Critical Care Society of Southern Africa. Best publication in the Southern African Journal of Critical Care (SAJCC) by South African author(s)
Name of Awardee	Joynt GM, Gopalan DP, Argent AA, Chetty S, Wise R, Lai VKW, Hodgson E, Lee A, Joubert I, Mokgokong S, Tshukutsoane S, Richards GA, Menezes C, Mathivha RL, Espen B, Levy B, Asante K, Paruk F.

Year 2017

Prizes / Award	Hong Kong Food and Health Bureau Excellent Research Award Title: Anaesthesia-related complications in adult passive smokers
Name of Awardee	Prof. LEE Anna

Year 2016

Prizes / Award	Second-class State Natural Science Award (2016) People’s Republic of China (2016年度国家自然科学奖二等奖)
Name of Awardee	Prof. WU William K.K.

Prizes / Award	The Harry Daly Research Award from the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA)
Name of Awardee	Prof. Matthew Chan

Year 2015

Prizes / Award	Young Researcher Award (2015) by The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Name of Awardee	Prof. WU William K.K.

Prizes / Award	College Medal – College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand
Name of Awardee	Prof. Charles Gomersall

Prizes / Award	The CCSSA Presidents Award for Outstanding Career Contribution to Critical Care in Southern Africa (2015), Southern African Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Name of Awardee	Prof. Gavin M JOYNT

Year 2014

Prizes / Award	First-class Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Natural Science) from the Ministry of Education (MoE) of China
Title	Integrative research on molecular basis and potential diagnostic and therapeutic targets for colorectal cancer
Name of Awardee	Prof. WU William K.K.

Prizes / Award	The Harry Daly Research Award from the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA)
Title	Epigenetic: regulation of chronic postsurgical pain with nitrous oxide
Name of Awardee	Prof. Matthew Chan

Prizes / Award	Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field Bursary, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, USA
Title	Stimulation of the wrist acupuncture point P6 for preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting
Name of Awardee	Prof. LEE Anna

Year 2013

Prizes / Award	The Mundipharma ANZCA Research Award from the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA)
Title	Vascular events in noncardiac surgery patients cohort evaluation (VISION): Ntpro-BNP study
Name of Awardee	Prof. Matthew Chan

Year 2011

Prizes / Award	Asmund S Laerdal Memorial Prize from the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care
Name of Awardee	Prof. Charles Gomersall

Year 2010

Prizes / Award	The Pfizer ANZCA Research Fellowship from the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA)
Title	Genetic determinants of persistent pain after surgery
Name of Awardee	Prof. Matthew Chan

Year 2009

Prizes / Award	St Judes Medical Research Award from the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA)
Name of Awardee	Prof. Matthew Chan

Year 2008

Prizes / Award	Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field Bursary, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, USA
Title	Stimulation of the wrist acupuncture point P6 for preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting
Name of Awardee	Prof. LEE Anna

Year 2007

Prizes / Award	Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. Hong Kong Medical Journal Best Original Paper Award
Name of Awardee	Yap HY, Li TS, Tan KS, Cheung YS, Chui PT, Lam PK, Lam DW, Tong YF, Chu MC, Leung PN and Joynt GM

Conference Prizes

Year 2022

Prizes / Award	KASID Best Oral Presentation Award (2022)
Name of Awardee	Prof ZHANG Lin

Prizes / Award	Best Presenter Award (Dec 2021) Title: A Population Study on Diagnosis, Treatment and Outcomes of Critically Ill Patients With Tuberculosis in Hong Kong Between 2008‐2019
Name of Awardee	Prof LING Lo Well Lowell, Prof WONG Wai Tat, Prof JOYNT Gavin Matthew, Dr SO Hiu Yi Christina, Dr SO Hiu Yi Christina Dr HO Wing Sze, Mr ZHANG Zhenhe

Prizes / Award	World Physiotherapy-AWP Regional Congress 2022 Best Oral Presentation Title: The potential of rectus femoris muscle ultrasound in assessing preoperative frailty in patients awaiting cardiac surgery
Name of Awardee	Derek King Wai YAU, James Francis GRIFFITH, Malcolm John UNDERWOOD, Gavin Matthew JOYNT, LEE Anna.

Year 2019

Prizes / Award	ANZICS Datathon Highly Commended Prize
Name of Awardee	Dr. LING, Lowell

Prizes / Award	Best Presentation Award, Free Papers, 20th Congress of Asia Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine, 2018
Name of Awardee	Prof JOYNT Gavin, Dr CHOI Gordon Yuk Sang, Prof ROBERTS JA (The University of Queensland, Australia), Prof LIPMAN Jeff, Prof LEE Anna

Prizes / Award	Felicity Reynolds Prize – 1st Prize, Obstetric Anaesthesia 2019 Meeting
Name of Awardee	Prof NGAN KEE Warwick Dean, Dr LEE SWY (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Ms NG FF, Prof LEE Anna

Prizes / Award	2019 Annual National Congress of the Critical Care Society of Southern Africa. Best Paper Prize. SMARRT study group Association between antibiotic trough concentrations and estimated total renal clearance in critically ill patients receiving renal replacement therapy: a pragmatic, multi-national observational study. Southern African Journal of Critical Care 2019, Vol. 35 No. 1, 28.
Name of Awardee	Joynt GM, Choi GYS, Roberts JA, Lipman J, Lee A

Year 2018

Prizes / Award	Best Abstract ESICM EURO ASIA \| HK
Name of Awardee	TSE Ho Wai Andrew, LEE Anna, LING Lowell, JOYNT Gavin

Prizes / Award	Top 3 poster prize award in the 5th SG-ANZICS Asia Pacific Intensive Care Forum, Singapore
Name of Awardee	Miss Lai Ka Wai Veronica, Prof. LEE Anna, Miss Leung Pui Nga, Prof. Wong Wai Tat, Dr. Ho KM, Prof. Charles Gomersall, Prof. Joynt Gavin Matthew

Prizes / Award	Best trainee presentation prize in Annual Scientific Meeting in Anaesthesiology, Hong Kong
Name of Awardee	Lau LLN, Dr. Li Cheuk Yin Ara, Prof. LEE Anna, Dr. CHAN Simon Kin Cheong

Prizes / Award	20^th Congress of the Asia Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine, 2018, Free Papers. Best Presentation Award
Topic	SMARRT study group. Variability of antibiotic trough concentrations in critically ill patients receiving renal replacement therapy: A pragmatic, multi-national observational study. Crit Care Shock 2019 Vol. 22 No. 1, 69
Name of Awardee	Joynt GM, Choi GYS, Roberts JA, Lipman J, Lee A;

Prizes / Award	European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) EURO ASIA, Hong Kong, 2018. Best Abstract Award
Topic	Survival of patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation outside the intensive or high-care unit.
Name of Awardee	Wong WT, Ling L, Lee A, Joynt GM, Chan YF, Wu H, Tang WM, Shek LH, So SO, Sinn M, Gomersall CD.

Prizes / Award	5th SG-ANZICS Asia Pacific Intensive Care Forum, Singapore, 2018. Top 3 poster prize award.
Topic	Preoperative multimedia patient education on patient and family satisfaction levels in the intensive care unit after elective cardiac surgery: a randomized controlled trial.
Name of Awardee	Lai VKW, Lee A, Leung P, Wong WT, Ho KM, Gomersall CD, Underwood MJ, Joynt GM.

Year 2017

Prizes / Award	Food and Health Bureau Excellent Research Award for project
Topic	Anaesthesia-related complications in adult passive smokers
Name of Awardee	Prof. LEE Anna, Prof. Tony GIN

Prizes / Award	1st prize at World Congress in Anaesthesiologists 2016 under Research and Publications Track
Topic	The quality of reporting in pharmacokinetic studies of analgesics and sedatives delivered for more than 24 hours in adult intensive care patients: a systematic review
Name of Awardee	Prof. LEE Anna, Mr Andrew TSE

Prizes / Award	2017 Annual National Congress of the Critical Care Society of Southern Africa. Best Paper Prize.
Topic	Low-molecular-weight Heparin dosing in critically ill patients: are we getting it right? Southern African Journal of Critical Care 2017; 33: 68.
Name of Awardee	I Chausse, G Joynt, N Mojaki, M Karodia, J Vlok, S Mootilall, F Paruk.

Year 2016

Prizes / Award	Best Abstract 16th World Congress Anaesthesiologists \| HK \| 2016
Name of Awardee	TSE Ho Wai Andrew, LEE Anna, LING Lowell, JOYNT Gavin

Prizes / Award	16th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists, Hong Kong, 2016 Best Poster Prize.
Topic	The quality of reporting in pharmacokinetic studies of analgesics and sedatives delivered for more than 24 hours in adult intensive care patients: a systematic review.
Name of Awardee	Tse AHW, Ling L, Joynt GM, LEE Anna.

Year 2014

Prizes / Award	First prize for oral presentation, 11th Evidence Based Peri-Operative Medicine (EBPOM) Congress, London, United Kingdom
Title	The Effect of the Patient’s Age on the Quality of Supra-sternal Doppler Measurements Performed During Anaesthesia
Name of Awardee	Prof. Lester Critchley

Year 2013

Prizes / Award	Second prize for Best paper of the meeting, Obstetric Anaesthesia 2013, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Title	Determination and quantification of the interaction of local anaesthetics and lipophilic opioids administered intrathecally for labour analgesia
Name of Awardee	Prof. Warwick Ngan Kee, Kim Khaw, FF Ng, LEE Anna

Year 2009

Prizes / Award	Australasian Visitor for the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) Annual Scientific Meeting in Auckland
Name of Awardee	Prof. Matthew Chan

Year 2005

Prizes / Award	Australasian Visitor for the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) Annual Scientific Meeting in Auckland
Name of Awardee	Prof. Warwick Ngan Kee

Year 2004

Prizes / Award	Best Conference Paper Prize, 11th International Symposium on Shock and Critical Care Indonesia
Title	Very High Dose Vasopressors Should Not be Deemed Futile – A Retrospective Observational Study
Name of Awardee	Prof. CR Jenkins, Charles Gomersall, Gavin Joynt

Prizes / Award	Best Presentation OBSTETRIC ANAESTHETIST’S ASSOCIATION (O.A.A.) and Club d’Anesthesie et de Reanimation en Obstetrique (C.A.R.O.) Combined Meeting 2004, Versailles, France
Name of Awardee	Prof. Kim Khaw

Year 2003

Prizes / Award	Discovery Health Clinical Excellence Award for Best Poster Presentation. South African Society of Anaesthesiologists Congress 2003, Sun City, South Africa
Name of Awardee	Prof. Kim Khaw

Year 2002

Prizes / Award	Bronze medal, Best Original Research by Trainees in the HKAM Fellowship Ceremony
Title	Alfentanil versus Fentanyl Co-induction with Propofol for Laryngeal Mask Airway insertion
Name of Awardee	Jacqueline Hui

Year 1998

Prizes / Award	Best Medical Paper Prize.The Eighth Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Critical Care Conference, Queensland, Australia, June 1998.
Topic	Resuscitation of critically ill patients based on the results of intramucosal gastric pH. A prospective, randomised controlled trial.
Name of Awardee	Joynt G, Gomersall C, Freebairn R, Hung V, Buckley T, Oh T.

Year 1997

Prizes / Award	Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and Faculty of Intensive Care Formal Project Prize (May 1997)
Topic	A comparison of common iliac vein pressure and superior vena cava pressure in mechanically ventilated patients
Name of Awardee	Ho KM, Joynt GM, Tan P.

Prizes / Award	Gabler prize for Best Free Paper. 19th Annual Congress of the Critical Care Society of Southern Africa, May 1997, South Africa.
Topic	Deep venous thrombosis caused by femoral venous catheters in critically ill patients.
Name of Awardee	Joynt G, Kew J, Gomersall C, Leung V, Calcroft R.

Year 1996

Prizes / Award	The 1996 International federation of clinical chemistry – AVL award. National winner.
Name of Awardee	Young RJ, Lipman J, Gin T, Gomersall CD, Joynt GM, Oh TE.

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