23 August 2020
Hong Kong gastroenterologist and academic leader Joseph Sung will be joining Nanyang Technological University as the new dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. Professor Sung will be concurrently appointed as NTU’s senior vice-president (health and life sciences) and appointed to the tenured faculty rank of Distinguished University Professor.
The formal start of Prof Sung’s tenure at NTU will be April 1 next year. He will succeed Professor James Best, who will be retiring after nearly seven years as dean of the medical school.
Prof Sung was the vice-chancellor and president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) from 2010 to 2017, and has held the title of the Mok Hing Yiu Professor of Medicine at CUHK’s department of medicine and therapeutics since 2007. He has served on the board of Singapore’s National University Health System and as a council member of the University of Melbourne.
NTU president Subra Suresh said he is looking forward to working with Prof Sung, adding: “NTU is well positioned to focus our interdisciplinary strengths on tackling grand challenges in healthcare, and we are delighted that an individual of Prof Sung’s calibre will lead this next chapter of development at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.”