Hospital Authority chief executive reappointed
On January 23, Chairman of the Hospital Authority (HA) Anthony Wu announced on behalf of the HA the re-appointment of Shane Solomon as the chief executive of the Authority for a term of three years effective March 1, 2009. Mr. Solomon's re-appointment has been endorsed by the HA Board and approved by the chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Mr. Solomon's salary remains unchanged.
In making the announcement, Mr. Wu said the Board unanimously expressed deep gratitude and appreciation for Mr. Solomon’s contribution and commitment to the healthcare of the people of Hong Kong.
Mr. Solomon has held the post of HA chief executive since 2006. During the past three years, he has driven many changes and reforms in the organization. These include an enhanced career development structure for doctors and nurses, doctor work reform, hospital chief executive rotation program, leadership and succession initiatives, advocacy for greater transparency and accountability in the HA, pursuit of higher quality and safety standards, and the recently launched “Pay for Performance” internal resource allocation model.
Bureau congratulates Hong Kong poet
On January 1, Hong Kong Home Affairs Bureau congratulated Hong Kong poet Agnes Lam Shun-ling on winning the Special Mention award in the 24th Nosside International Poetry Prize. With her English poem “Vanilla in the Stars,” she has become the first Chinese winner in this competition.
The Nosside International Poetry Prize is the only global poetry contest for unpublished works, multilingual and multimedia, organized by the Centro Studi Bosio of Reggio Calabria and endorsed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Entries for the competition can be written in any language and submitted in the form of written poetry, video poetry or musical poetry.
Ms. Lam, born and raised in Hong Kong, is the associate professor of the Centre for Applied English Studies of the University of Hong Kong. She studied at the University of Singapore and completed a doctoral degree in linguistics in 1984 at the University of Pittsburgh in America. She regularly contributes poems and articles to journals and publishes anthologies including Water Wood Pure Splendour and Woman to Woman and Other Poems.
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