Professor Bernadette Watson
Professor
Department of English and Communication
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong
bernadette.watson@polyu.edu.hk
Professor Shouzhen Cheng is the Director of Nursing Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. Her major fields of expertise are respiratory and critical care, nursing management, nursing education and nursing research.
Cheng and her team have formulated 16 critical nursing standard operating procedures, 14 guidelines and regulations. In 2017, Cheng established China’s first “College of Clinical Specialty Nursing”, mentoring over 600 nurse specialists and 18,800 specialty nurses.
She has edited over 10 books and published more than 100 papers. The “Research on ICU Professional Nurse’s Core Competence and Training Program” won the first “Chinese Nursing Science & Technology Award”. As the outstanding recipient, she was well received by Premier Li Keqiang.
Throughout her over 40 years of engagement in the nursing field, Prof. Cheng has achieved outstanding accomplishments in scientific research, professional team development and nursing management. She is now carrying titles of:
a. Chairman of Respiratory Nursing Committee of Chinese Nursing Association
b. President of Guangdong Nursing Association
c. Chairman of Critical Care Committee of Guangdong Nursing Association
d. Director of Guangdong Nursing Quality Control Center
e. Associate Editor of the Chinese Journal of Nursing
In 2012, Cheng was elected as the Vice President of the 26th Chinese Nursing Association. As a member of the Chinese nursing delegation, she attended the 2013 Melbourne International Nurse’s Conference to facilitate the landmark day of the Chinese Nursing Association formally joining the International Council of Nurses. In 2016, she was invited to be the panel of experts including the Presidents from Nursing Association of China, Japan and Korea, and the Chairman of ICN to discuss the public health, witnessing the signing of the memorandum of cooperation nursing among BRICS countries. In 2018, she and her team undertook a foreign project from Guangdong Province “Pacific Island Medical specialized personal Training Program”, training nurses from Cook Islands and Papua New Guinea.
Dr David G. Hewett is an Associate Professor at The University of Queensland Faculty of Medicine, and gastroenterologist at Brisbane Colonoscopy in Brisbane, Australia.
After graduating with honours from the University of Queensland, he undertook clinical and research training at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, before completing a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Douglas Rex at Indiana University, USA where he developed advanced skills in the technical performance of colonoscopy.
Associate Professor Hewett’s clinical interests include colorectal cancer screening and the technical performance of colonoscopy, including detection, advanced imaging and resection, and endoscopic training. His research focuses on improving the effectiveness of colonoscopy, and he has published widely on new colonoscopic techniques, technologies and methods of training. He has parallel interests in health systems research and medical education, including quality of patient care, intergroup relations, and procedural skills training.
A/Prof Hewett is active internationally in colorectal cancer policy and training initiatives. He is a member of advisory boards for the Australian National Bowel Cancer Screening Program and the Asian Novel Bio-Imaging and Intervention Group, and editorial boards for the journal Endoscopy, and the Journal of the Anus, Rectum and Colon. He has served as Director of Training for the Gastroenterological Society of Australia and as a member of the Specialist Training Committee in gastroenterology with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Professor Srikant Kumar Sarangi is a Professor in Humanities and Medicine and Director of the Danish Institute of Humanities and Medicine at Aalborg University in Denmark. He was appointed as the Professor in Language and Communication and Director of the Health Communication Research Centre at Cardiff University in the UK where he is now Honorary Professor.
In 2012, Prof. Sarangi was awarded the title of ‘Fellow’ by the Academy of Social Sciences, UK. In 2015, he was elected as a ‘Foreign Member’ of The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters (Societas Scientiarum Fennica).He is the editor of TEXT & TALK: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse and Communication Studies as well as founding editor of both Communication & Medicine and Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice. Moreover, Prof. Sarangi is the author or editor of ten books and numerous articles in international journals. He serves as an editorial board member for other journals and book series, and as a consulting advisor at many national and international levels.
Prof. Sarangi’s research interests include institutional and professional discourse from an applied linguistics perspective (e.g., health, social welfare, bureaucracy, education etc.); communication in genetic counselling, HIV/AIDS, telemedicine, primary care and palliative care; communication ethics; teaching and assessment of consulting and communication skills; language and identity in public life; intercultural pragmatics.
Professor Howard Giles (Ph.D., D.Sc.) is Distinguished Research Professor in Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara (adjunct in Social Psychology & Linguistics), & Director of Volunteers in Policing for the Santa Barbara Police Department, USA). Editor of both the Handbook of Intergroup Communication (2012) and the 2-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Intergroup Communication (2018).
His prodigious interests and publications mainly revolve around many areas and settings of intergroup communication, including the subjective health of different age groups (e.g., their successful aging as well as abuse and aggression directed toward them); police officers’ wellness; and work place violence in the health professions). Giles is Past President both of the International Communication Association (ICA, 1998-99) and the International Association of Language & Social Psychology (200-02). He is the recipient of numerous cross-disciplinary awards and association Fellowships, including being the inaugural recipient of ICA’s Career Productivity Award (2000), and is Founding and Current Editor of two journals: the Journal of Language & Social Psychology (1980-) & the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication (1990-), and was elected Editor of the ICA flagship journal, Human Communication Research (1995-98).
Dr. Eric Hang-Kwong So is a consultant anesthesiologist in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) under Hospital Authority (HA). He was appointed as the Associate Director of Multi-disciplinary Simulation and Skills Centre (MDSSC) in 2011 to oversee the overall Centre’s operation and accomplish its vision and mission. He has given valuable inputs in the planning and execution of simulation training activities and insights for evidence based practice in simulation education throughout the years. Under his leadership, MDSSC has achieved accreditation for Teaching/ Education Standards from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) and Excellence Award in the category of Innovations in Healthcare Technology conferred by the Asian Hospital Management Awards (AHMA).
Dr. So is a well experienced and devoted simulation educator that took up the instructor role and coordinator in various simulation training courses, such as HA Intern Simulation Training Boot Camp, Crew Resource Management Training in Kowloon Central Cluster, etc. He has started to work closely with Anaes & OTS, O&G, Pediatric and Surgical department to develop their specialty-based CRM training since 2017 and kept exploring to expand the training to other specialties such as Cardiothoracic Surgery. Learners of the courses expressed that they could further enhance their knowledge, skills, and attitudes to protect patients in a risk- free learning environment. In addition, he has been actively involved in research activities of MDSSC, collaborating with inter-disciplinary as well as external stakeholders at all levels in establishing and maintaining research projects of publishable standards.