HK Innovation Day returned with SN team won the Social Innovation Award
The School’s Hong Kong Innovation Day (HKID) cum Innovation Awards Competition returned this year with 15 finalist teams giving pitches in front of the judging panel to bid for unique opportunities to represent Hong Kong to compete for the highest innovation awards at the Global Healthcare Innovation day, held in the UK. Among them are six staff members of the School representing four innovations, including the Virtual Hospital, Osteoporosis Prediction Tool, Edge Artificial Intelligent for Hand Hygiene Monitoring, and a Feasible Moxibustion Device.
Dr Kitty Chan, Senior Teaching Fellow, and her team won the Social Innovation Award. This was the 5th HKID host by the School and the project submissions (30 projects) reached the highest-ever in the 10-year history of the HKID.
Here are the awarding projects:
Innovation Award of Excellence
| Champion |
| Project title: |
Liverscan: Palm-sized Real-time B-mode Ultrasound Imaging Guided System for Liver Fibrosis and Steatosis Assessment |
| Project leader: |
Prof. Yong-ping Zheng, Henry G. Leong Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Chair Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of Research Institute for Smart Ageing and Director of Jockey Club Smart Ageing Hub, Department of Biomedical Engineering, PolyU |
 Prof. David Shum, Dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, PolyU (right) and Prof. E Angela Chan, Professor and Interim Head of the School (left), took a photo with Prof. Young-ping Zheng (mid). |
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First Runner-up
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| Project title: |
Robotic Surgery Remote Mentoring via AR with 3D Scene Streaming and Hand Interaction |
| Project leader: |
Dr Qi Dou, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
 Mr Yonghao Long, (mid), representative from the first runner-up project group,took a picture with the judges, Prof. Hong-ning Dai (right), Associate Professor, the Department of Computer Science of the Hong Kong Baptist University, and Dr Harry Qin (left), Associate Professor from the School. |
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Second Runner-up
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| Project title: |
A novel green wide-spectrum antiviral/antimicrobial material: Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) oligomer |
| Project leader: |
Dr Ziheng Zhang, CEO, Ecolar Technology Limited |
 Second runner-up winner, Dr Ziheng Zhang (mid) CEO of the Ecolar Technology Limited took a photo with the judges, Prof. Zheng Li (right), Associate Professor from the Department of Surgery of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Dr Harry Qin (left). |
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The Social Innovation Award
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| Project title: |
Virtual Hospital – an immersive virtual reality game to strengthen nursing education |
| Project leader: |
Dr Kitty Chan, Senior Teaching Fellow, The School of Nursing, PolyU [Team members: Dr Justina Liu & Dr Kin Cheung, Associate Professors; Mr Timothy Lai, Senior Clinical Associate; and Dr Patrick Kor, Assistant Professor.] |
 Dr Kitty Chan (left) took a photo with the judges, Dr Calvin Mak (mid), Consultant from the Department of Neurosurgery of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and Prof. Thomas Choi (right) , Professor from the School. |
 Six staff members representing four innovations competed for the awards at the Hong Kong Innovation Day. (From left: Dr Kitty Chan, Senior Teaching Fellow; Dr Vivian Hui, Assistant Professor; Ms Qingling Yang, Research Assistant; Prof. E Angela Chan, Professor and Interim Head of the School; Dr Grace Xie, Assistant Professor; Ms Chen Shu Cheng, Postdoctoral Fellow; and Dr Lin Yang, Associate Professor.) |
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