| Name | Dr FUNG Mo Chi Ita |
| Title | Associate Dean (Planning and Development) cum Associate Professor |
| ifung@sfu.edu.hk | |
| Office hours | Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm |
| School | S.K. Yee School of Health Sciences |
| Department | S.K. Yee Department of Health Sciences |
| Research body | Healthcare Research Centre |
I received my undergraduate and postgraduate training as a pharmacist at St. John’s University (USA). Upon my return to Hong Kong, where I started working in clinical research in the pharmaceutical industry. I also worked as a community pharmacist. I started my teaching career in 2005 at the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education. Three years into teaching, I have taken up the role as Program Leader of a 4-year Higher Diploma program overseeing the program administration, program delivery and quality issues. Aside from teaching, I participated in short course development for knowledge enhancement of the healthcare workforce; program revalidation and validation of the existing programs; and development of the new higher diploma programs in response to the 334 Scheme of the Education Reform in Hong Kong. In 2013, I joined the Department / School of Health Sciences of the Caritas Bianchi College of Careers and Caritas Institute of Higher Education to teach in the Higher Diploma in Pharmaceutical Dispensing program and assist in the development of the Bachelor of Nursing (Honours) program. For further development of the Department / School of Health Sciences, I participated in the development of the Bachelor of Health Sciences, a part-time top-up degree program and the establishment of the Healthcare Research Centre.
To fulfil my obligations and responsibilities as a Pharmacist, since 2010, I have been providing pharmaceutical services, on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Care Foundation, for the old age homes and consultation services for the referred cases by the old age homes and service units of elderly care of the NGO under my responsibility.
I taught for the first time when I was a graduate student at St. John’s University. The students I taught were third- and fourth-year undergraduate students in pharmacy school. Students were young adults pursuing the pharmacy profession. I was helping to teach the clinical pharmacy practical sessions, in which students’ communication, clinical thinking and reasoning skills were developed.
My teaching career in Hong Kong commenced in 2005 at the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education where I taught in diploma and higher diploma programs. These programs were vocational training in nature and were more knowledge- and skill-based. I taught a variety of health science courses in these programs, including Dispensing Studies, Physiology and Disease Management, Disease and Therapy, Pharmacology and Drug Uses, Chemistry in Health Science, Health Communication Studies, Health Informatics, and Integrated Professional Studies. Supervision of students’ final year projects and coordination of industrial attachments were also on my duty list.
In 2013, I joined the Caritas Bianchi College of Careers and Caritas Institute of Higher Education, where I taught Dispensing Practice, Human Pathophysiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Pharmaceutical Dosage Science in the Higher Diploma in Pharmaceutical Dispensing program; Antibiotics, antiviral agents, and antifungal agents in the Bachelor of Nursing (Honours) program; and pharmacy elective courses in the Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) program.
For contribution to the health care professionals, I taught, as Guest Speaker, in the Master of Clinical Pharmacy program offered by the University of Hong Kong; and in the drug courses or seminars organized by the professional organizations, of which the participants were mostly nurses, health care professionals, health care workers, and social workers. I also spoke in seminars and provided consultation for the general public on proper drug use.
My research interest is in pharmaceutical care and primary care. In 2016, I became the Director of the Healthcare Research Centre of the Caritas Institute of Higher Education. I help to develop the Institute’s capacity to carry out big data analysis in healthcare research and to conduct research in primary care.