CUHK-WHO Collaborating Centre for Sports Medicine and Health Promotion and The Hong Kong Association of Sports Medicine and Sports Science had jointly conducted a workshop “Questions arise from Olympics” on 25th July 2008. There were over 30 people with various expertise attended the workshop.

This is a fund raising event for 5.12 Sichuan catastrophe. 4 runners are committed to run one marathon per day from Hong Kong to Beijing through 5 provinces. Our clinical team which consists of one orthopeadics specialist and physiotherapist visits the running team bi-weekly to provide medical support. We also support them physically by engaging ourselves in running with them.

The 1-day team physician advanced course was co-organized by International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS) and Asian Federation of Sports Medicine (AFSM), with the support from the CUHK-WHO Collaborating Centre for Sports Medicine and Health Promotion and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Sports Medicine and Health Sciences Centre.

The program was chaired by Prof Kai-ming Chan and Prof Walter Frontera, and it took the form of didactic lectures backed up by our strong international faculties from International Olympic Committee (IOC), International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS), Asian Federation of Sports Medicine (AFSM) and the a number of equestrian authorities.

With the theme on Olympic Equestrian Games, the program echoing the Beijing Olympics, has attracted a total of 104 registrants, who are mainly from specialities of emergency medicine, physiotherapy, nursing, orthopaedics & traumatology etc.

The workshop was co-organized with Asian Shoulder Association, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Sports Medicine and Health Sciences Centre, with the support of Department of Orthopaedic Traumatology and Asian Association for Dynamic Osteosynthesis (AADO). The program was chaired by Prof Kai-ming Chan, Prof Mark Ferguson and Prof Kim Seung Ho, with the contribution and support from a number of local orthopaedic surgeons.

The 3rd International Scientific Symposium was successfully held at the Hong Kong Sports Institute (HKSI) on 15-16 March, with a participation of nearly 200 local and overseas sports practitioners, professionals and enthusiasts.

Organised by the HKSI, the Symposium featured keynote speakers from UK, USA, Australia, Mainland China and Hong Kong who shed lights on the theme - "The Elite Young Athletes - Biopsychosocial Approaches to Sporting Excellence". All of the participants found the information presented at the Symposium practical, up-to-date and unique.

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The Hip Arthroscopy Workshop was jointly organized by 1. Department of Orthopaedic and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2. CUHK-WHO Collaboration Centre for Sports Medicine and Health Promotion, and 3. Sports Medicine Chapter, Hong Kong Orthopaedic Association (HKOA-SMC) and supported by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Sports Medicine and Health Sciences Centre on16 Nov. 2007.

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