Donor
Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund
Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund (SHECF) was founded by the late philanthropist Dr William Mong in 1984. In the spirit of giving back to society, SHECF has since been actively supporting various kinds of charities and projects that benefit education, medical services, sports, arts and culture, scientific research and community services. Over the last three decades, the Fund has contributed more than HK$1.2 billion to meaningful initiatives and worthy causes.
As its name suggests, SHECF’s primary objective is to promote education and to benefit society through teaching and research. Ever since its inception, the Fund has focused on furthering educational causes on the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and overseas. Apart from setting up scholarships at local higher-education institutions, SHECF has provided major universities at home and abroad with funding for them to upgrade their campus facilities, including academic buildings, research institutes, activity centres and libraries.
SHECF is committed to backing academic development and the advancement of scientific research by setting up endowment funds as well as chair professorships at tertiary institutions to drive teaching and research excellence.
With a proud history of over 60 years, Shun Hing Group will continue to honour its obligations as a good global corporate citizen. The Group will also do its utmost to sponsor projects that will help make our community a better and more harmonious place.
Appointee
Professor Margaret Mak
Professor Margaret Mak is currently Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences. Her research focuses on neurological rehabilitation, with special emphasis on Parkinson’s disease. Using augmented technology-assisted training and blended motor-cognitive training paradigm, she has developed an innovative fall-prevention programme. She has also been conducting research into neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the positive effects of physiotherapy treatment in people with Parkinson’s disease and the application of non-invasive stimulation in Parkinson’s disease.
With over 110 publications to her credit, Professor Mak has published in leading international journals such as Movement Disorders, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair and Brain Stimulation. She has been invited as a regular speaker at international conferences such as International World Confederation of Physical Therapy Congress and World Parkinson Congress.
In recognition of her innovative teaching methods such as blended e-learning and simulated based learning, Professor Mak was honoured with the Departmental outstanding teaching award in 2015 and Faculty teaching prize in 2016. Equally dedicated in her professional contributions, she has been serving as a member of the Physiotherapists Board of Hong Kong, appointed Chief Examiner of Board of Examiners for Physiotherapists Full Registration Examination, and Council Member of both the Hong Kong Parkinson’s Disease Foundation and Hong Kong Movement Disorder Society.
The generous support of this Endowed Fellowship will be conducive to enhancing Professor Mak’s ongoing research into the neuroplasticity underlying the functional improvement of people with Parkinson’s disease after treatment. Based on the findings, more targeted physiotherapy treatment can be developed to promote patients’ mobility and to delay disease progression.
