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Saturday, September 22, 1973
LECTURE IN HONOUR OF M.H.A. FOUNDER MEMBER
A memorial lecture in honour of the late Professor P.M. Yap will
be given on October 2 at the Mandarin Hotel by Dr. Wilfred Warren, a con- sultant psychiatrist and world authority on child and adolescent psychiatry.
Dr. G.H. Choa, Director of Medical and Health Services, will be
chairman of the lecture.
The memorial
Professor Yap was a founder member of the Menatl Health Association
of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Psychiatric Association.
lecture is made possible by a memorial fund set up jointly by the two
associations after his death.
He passed away in November, 1971, while attending the World Pay-
chiatric Congress in Mexico City.
An eminent psychiatrist, he was one of the earliest pioneers in mental health in Hong Kong, and until 1969, was the senior psychiatric
specialist in charge of the Medical and Health Department's mental health
service.
In 1969, he left for Canada to take up a professorial appoint-
ment in Toronto before returning to Hong Kong in 1971 as the first holder
of the chair in psychiatry at the University of Hong Kong, a post he was
holding at the time of his death.
Professor Yap's many articles on psychiatry published in his
lifetime in journals in Hong Kong and abroad remain as permanent tributes
to his memory.
/Dr. Warren
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