Sum Ping Lee

Early life and education Lee was born in southern China. His mother took him and his sisters to Hong Kong when he was 9 years old. Lee entered Diocesan Boys' School, where he became interested in poetry and literature. 2 years later he started his MBBS at the University of Hong Kong (HKU),

In 1973, after 3 years of medical practice, Lee went to New Zealand to pursue research, obtaining his PhD from the University of Auckland in 1978. He also received his MD from HKU in 1980.

Career Lee's career began at Queen Mary Hospital, where he worked for 3 years after receiving his MBBS in 1970. He then went to New Zealand to pursue a PhD. He also served as the Chief of the Gastroenterology Section of the Seattle VA Medical Center. Lam was sentenced to 25 months in jail in 2009, but was released after spending only 11 months behind bars. Lee was described as an "outsider" who could bring a "new climate" to the governance of the Faculty. The same year, he also joined the Board of the Hospital Authority in his new position.

In 2011, Lee was endowed with the Dexter H C Man Family Professorship in Medical Science.

Lee's deanship was marked by the launch of new departments and the incorporation of humanities into medical education and research. He led the founding of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine in 2009 and the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law in 2012, and the introduction of medical humanities into HKU's undergraduate medical curriculum in 2012. as Grace Wai-king Tang, the then-President of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, was having an end-of-term visit at China's Ministry of Health, she relayed Lee's request for a teaching hospital in Mainland China. HKU and the Shenzhen government formally went into an agreement in 2009. Initially named Binhai Hospital, it was renamed the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital in 2010, and opened on 1 July 2012.

In 2013, Singapore-based Parkway Pantai and NWS Holdings, a Hong Kong company, partnered in a joint venture for a new private, for-profit hospital (now Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital) in Hong Kong. The Faculty of Medicine was brought in as a clinical partner, responsible for clinical governance, appointment of doctors and healthcare staff training, while Parkway Pantai and NWS would manage the hospital.

Lee retired in August 2013, when his 5-year term as Dean ended, He remains a Professor Emeritus at the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Master of the American College of Gastroenterology (2010)

Personal life Lee became interested in poetry and literature in secondary school.