Margaret H.L. Ng(吳香玲)

Never dreamt to be a pathologist. As a student, she found pathology as an extremely hard subject. Unlike other graduates, her career path after graduation is totally not straight forward as the first batch of CUHK medical graduates in those days despite a rather attractive academic record [Gold Medal in Medicine and The most Outstanding Medical Student 1986]. Haematopathology was not a prominent specialty then, and to most people almost non-existent. Given the chance to work in the Dept. of A & C Pathology (Department of Morbid Anatomy then) by the then founding chairman, Prof. CK Lee, she chose to start training in haematopathology, based on just one reason. She liked the teaching on haematology given by the academic paediatric team and her dissertation in paediatric clerkship was on immune/idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, for which she was awarded a Cow & Gate Price in Perinatology. That was so encouraging to young Margaret.