Archive for May, 2019CARDIOLOGIST WITH A KIND HEART FOR HIS PATIENTS & STUDENTS
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN
That was the impression I had of Captain Ho Fooi (Rtd) PPA PJM when I interviewed him in MBS on 30.04.2019. His childhood home was an attap house among other attap houses at the Chinese gangster rough-area in Chan Sow Lin. They had no access to electricity and water. Studying was by oil lamp and water from the well nearby. He gives credit to his mother who had the foresight to ‘force’ him to take extra classes for Chinese Language and Bahasa Melayu. |
Prof. Lang Chim Choy, fondly known as CHIMPANZEE by his MBS mates (class of 1976) is a world renowned consultant cardiologist with training in clinical pharmacology and a whopping 10295 citations to date and still counting. He is currently the head of a Division in the University of Dundee Medical School. His research is defined by its distinctiveness and ground-breaking practical applications to improving the health of patients world-wide. His work with Prof Struthers is now used as an international guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure and has helped saved countless lives. For a man of such achievements, he is extremely humble. 