Professor Fung Yee Chan, 19/09/55 – 30/05/07

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Professor Fung Yee Chan, 19/09/55 – 30/05/07

In memory of Professor Fung Yee Chan, Professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine

September 07, 2007 5AM, by Miss Miranda Hunt

Professor Chan was a highly regarded member of the Mater community. A graduate of the University of Hong Kong, she received most of her specialist training in Hong Kong, and spent one year as a Commonwealth Scholar in Oxford in 1984. Professor Chan was a Fellow of the Hong Kong, British, and Australian & New Zealand Colleges of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists.

After migrating to Australia in 1993, Professor Chan completed the RANZCOG Certificate of Maternal Fetal Medicine in 1995. She was the first Queensland Obstetrician to receive this sub-specialist qualification. In the same year, she was awarded a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Hong Kong. She was the founding Director of the Centre for Maternal Fetal Medicine at the Mater Mothers' Hospital, and held a conjoint appointment as Professor and Senior Specialist in Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Queensland, Mater Mothers' Hospital.

Professor Chan's interest covered all aspects of antenatal screening, diagnosis, and therapy. Her team successfully pioneered the use of real-time tele-ultrasound to provide sub-specialist expertise to regional centres in Queensland. She received several national awards, and was recognised internationally for this work.

Professor Chan successfully introduced endoscopic fetal surgery to Australia. Mater has now performed the largest number of fetoscopic laser surgeries for severe twin to twin transfusion syndrome in the Asia Pacific, with results matching the best centres around the world. Prof Fung Yee Chan will be dearly missed.