BIMHSE News Issue 12

December 2019 Issue 12 Dr Jessica Chu Lecturer, School of Biomedical Sciences E: jyschu@hku.hk Dr Jessica Chu participates in the teaching of MBBS, pharmacy, nursing, and Chinese medicine students. She believes that students should have a conceptual understanding of the topics in order to act and serve in the future. Because of this, Dr Chu actively engages in the use of learner-centred pedagogy. In her lectures, she maximizes opportunities for students to share ideas, ask questions, and express their knowledge by engaging them in her tailored think-pair-share activities. Via collaborative learning and real-time constructive feedback, she believes students’ learning processes is much enhanced. They will have a much deeper, multidimensional understanding of professional- related subjects and be able to make specific links between theory and concepts in coursework to ‘real-world’ clinical experiences. Dr Masayo Kotaka Senior Lecturer, School of Biomedical Sciences E: masayo@hku.hk Dr Masayo Kotaka is Senior Lecturer of the School of Biomedical Sciences. Dr Kotaka obtained her PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She completed her postdoctoral training in Structural Biology at HKU, the University of Oxford, UK, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and was a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology, HKU, and School of Life Sciences, CUHK. She was Head of Research in a start-up company based at Hong Kong Science Park before joining the School of Biomedical Sciences in 2018. She has a strong interest in developing undergraduate courses in Entrepreneurship in Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology. She is also interested in promoting communication literacies in undergraduate courses. Dr Denny Ma Lecturer, School of Biomedical Sciences E: cwma2010@hku.hk Dr Ma received his PhD in physiology from HKU in 2010. His postdoctoral research focused on developmental neuroscience. As a teacher and coordinator of human biology courses, he contributed to nursing programmes organised by the Hong Kong Hospital Authority for nursing schools of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Tuen Mun Hospital, and Caritas Medical Centre, in collaboration with higher education institutions, including The Hong Kong Institute of Education (now EdUHK), Tung Wah College, and Caritas Bianchi College of Careers. His main teaching responsibilities are in the biomedical science courses of most undergraduate programmes offered by the LKS Faculty of Medicine of HKU. The goal of his research is to improve the quality of medical education with innovative technologies. He has developed educational software with augmented reality to support learning and has been studying the effectiveness of virtual reality in curriculum enrichment. Tips for Teachers Useful resources for medical and health sciences teachers Do you know that you can apply to BIMHSE for conference sponsorship related to medical and health sciences education? BIMHSE Conference Funding Support • For conferences in Mainland China or other countries in the Asia-Pacific region: maximum award up to HK$7,000 • For conferences outside the Greater China and the Asia-Pacific region: maximum award up to HK$16,500 For more information, please contact us by e-mail at imhse@hku.hk . 13