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Dr. Chun Por Wong, JP
Chief of Service (Integrated Medical Services)
Consultant & Head, Department of Geriatrics
Ruttonjee & Tang Shiu Kin Hospitals

Key Ideas

1. Most of industry advancements rely on technologies.  In fact, the healthcare industry needs a big workforce to develop technology.  This generates tremendous potential for improvement and development in the healthcare industry.
    
2. Students can get a sense of achievement through solving problems in engineering.  This is because the search for solutions, analysis of issues and decision-making are included in the study of engineering.  The discipline is suitable for students with an analytical mind.
    
3. Today, there is a lack of middle level management personnel to manage technologies in the market.  SEEM can help to train up students to take up the middle management level work by providing appropriate courses that fit the needs of society.

Profile of Dr. Chun Por Wong, JP

Dr. Wong is concurrently appointed as Chief of Integrated Medical Services & Consultant Geriatrician in-charge of Ruttonjee & Tang Shiu Kin Hospitals.  He has practiced geriatric medicine since 1981 and steered the development of geriatric services of Ruttonjee Hospital since 1992.  He has special interests in community geriatric services and neurological diseases in the elderly.  Dr. Wong is also the Service Director (Primary and Community Health Care) of the Hong Kong East Cluster of hospitals.  Since 1993, he has pioneered several community projects, including the Community Geriatric Assessment Teams, High Risk Elderly Database, Community Health Call Center, and the Hospital Admission Risk Reduction Program for the Elderly.

Dr. Wong has been council member of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, Hong Kong College of Physicians and Hong Kong Geriatrics Society, and has been very active in the education and accreditation of Geriatric Medical Training in Hong Kong.  He is a member of the Multidisciplinary Panel on Neuropathic Pain and Hong Kong Cardiovascular Task Force.  He has also a special interest in health informatics and is the chairman of the Hong Kong Society of Medical Informatics, President of the eHealth Consortium, and Past President of Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics.  He is editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics, Asia Pacific Electronic Journal of Health Informatics and Health Informatics Research.

Mr. Edwin Keh 
Chief Executive Officer 
The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA)

Key Ideas

1. Engineers are in great demand and the engineering discipline provides the quantitative solutions to solve problems in our society.
    
2. Engineering is a fundamental tool that allows us to solve problems.  It provides training that we need for the development of Hong Kong.
    
3. SEEM has a more comprehensive view of the engineering problems.  It provides creative and innovative solutions for today’s complex society.

Profile of Mr. Edwin Keh

Mr. Keh has extensive experience in senior management roles in procurement, consumer and retail industries. He was the SVP COO of Wal-Mart Global Procurement.  Prior to that he was the Managing Director of Payless Shoesource International, Donna Karan International, and Country Road Australia.

He is a faculty member of the Operations and Information Management Department at the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania.

To recognise his contributions to the field of supply chain management, Mr. Keh was the 2011 recipient of the Production and Operations Management Society’s Excellence in Practice Award.

Mr. Keh graduated from Whittier College with a BA in Political Science, Sociology, and Urban Design.

Dr. Gang Yu
Co-Founder and Chairman 
The Store Corporation

Key Ideas

1. Industrial and systems engineers are in great demand as they possess the skills to work on the real-world problems by cooperating with people from industries.
    
2. Engineers are good at defining problems and figuring out the best solutions, which are practical and operational.
    
3. Engineers with analytical skills, having a keen sense of application in practice and a clear goal of improving the real-world problems are in great demand.

Profile of Dr. Gang Yu

Dr. Gang Yu is the co-founder and Chairman of The Store Corporation.  Prior to his current position, he served as Vice President, Worldwide Procurement at Dell Inc. managing Dell’s over $18 billion procurement in Asia Pacific.  He was also appointed as Vice President of Worldwide Supply Chain Operations at Amazon.com.   He was the founder and former Chairman/CEO of CALEB Technologies Corporation (now a subsidiary of Accenture).

He has been the Jack G. Taylor Professor of Business at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin for fifteen years and published over 80 journal articles, three patents and four books.  He won the 2002 Franz Edelman Management Science Achievement Award from INFORMS and the 2003 Outstanding IIE Publication Award from the  Institute of Industrial Engineers, in addition to many other awards.

He received his MS from Cornell University and his PhD from the Wharton School of  Business, University of Pennsylvania.