Vincent McGovern Lecture by Professor John Nicholls

Saturday, 12:00 – 12:45 pm in the Plaza Auditorium

Title: 50 years of pathology education – where have we been and where are we going?

 

Professor John Nicholls

Professor John Nicholls is a Clinical Professor in Pathology at the University of Hong Kong. He missed on being taught by Dr Vincent McGovern by choosing to do medicine in Adelaide rather than Sydney, and trained in Anatomical Pathology at the IMVS, QEH and Adelaide Children’s Hospital before coming to HK in 1988.

His research themes have been on virus-cell interactions, with major research work on NPC and EBV, as well as emerging infections such as H5N1, SARS, MERS, and COVID -19. He was an integral member of the team that first identified SARS-CoV as the causative agent for SARS in 2003, and since then developed an ex-vivo based model for emerging viruses. This has been used as a risk assessment model by WHO and was used during the COVID pandemic for determining disease severity.

From 1997 he was responsible for developing curriculum change and education reform at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine and was the Chief Examiner in BPS for the RCPA for 8 years. Since 2023 he has taken on the exciting role as Education Convenor for the Australasian IAP. He has over 230 publications with an h-index of 69.