Donor
Dr Eddie Yeung Shiu Kin and the Estate of Tsang Wing Hing
Madam Yeung Tsang Wing-yee Winnie and her younger sister, Ms Tsang Wing-hing, are two of the eight children of the late Mr Tsang Shiu-tim, a successful entrepreneur who donated to many charitable causes during his lifetime. After he passed away in 1972, the Tsang family honoured his wishes by continuing to contribute to a wide range of charities, notably in education and elderly services. In 2007, the Tsang Shiu Tim Charitable Foundation was established to oversee the family’s charitable activities.
Wing-yee and Wing-hing completed their secondary education at the St. Paul’s Co-educational College, Hong Kong. Subsequently, Ms Tsang Wing-hing graduated from the University of Hong Kong. Inspired by their father’s charity work, the two sisters shared the vision that the young generation in Hong Kong shall have the opportunity to receive world-class education and the elderly people can lead a healthy and fulfilling life.
The Yeung Tsang Wing Yee and Tsang Wing Hing Endowed Professorship in Neuropsychology is established for the purpose of commemorating their sisterhood and, at the same time, achieving their vision. This generous donation will support education and research work in the areas of neuroscience and neurological rehabilitation, in hopes that the work will encourage researchers and students to study and conduct research in those areas for the betterment of people with cognitive impairment.
Appointee
Professor David Shum
Professor Shum is a neuropsychologist who specialises in the research of brain injury, ageing, cognitive impairments, and rehabilitation. He received his BA Hons (first class) at Massey University, New Zealand, and obtained his PhD in neuropsychology from the University of Queensland, Australia. He has worked in higher education in Australia for many years before returning to Hong Kong in July 2018. There, he took over the deanship of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences and became Chair Professor of Neuropsychology at the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Professor Shum has published 4 books, 1 edited book, 9 book chapters, over 250 refereed journal articles, and 6 encyclopaedia entries. Also, he has been awarded over 25 national- and international-level competitive grants by funding bodies such as the Australian Research Council, Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council and Hong Kong Research Grants Council, with a total amount of AUS$8.7 million. Professor Shum has been invited to present his research at many international and national conferences. He is also on the editorial board of internationally renowned journals such as Neuropsychological Rehabilitation and PsyCh Journal.
The Endowed Professorship will enable Professor Shum to further promote the important role of neuropsychological research in understanding and preventing age-related decline in human brain functions. He will lead a research team to study human executive functions and design training programmes to delay the decline of these functions. By using state-of-the-art technology, his team will provide much-needed evidence that executive functions can be trained and the decline of these functions can be delayed. These research results will be translated into practice in the communities and promote everyday independence in older individuals.
