https://macaonews.org/cat-people/health/ Macao News Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:20:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.4 https://macaonews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-MN_Monogram_Red-One-32x32.png https://macaonews.org/cat-people/health/ 32 32 https://macaonews.org/people/joanna-tam-macao-palliative-care/ https://macaonews.org/people/joanna-tam-macao-palliative-care/#respond Wed, 08 Mar 2023 08:27:35 +0000 https://macaonews.org/?post_type=people&p=61049 A traumatic loss as a teenager motivated Tam to specialise in palliative nursing and improve the quality of end-of-life care in Macao, so that more people can experience death with dignity.

]]> https://macaonews.org/people/joanna-tam-macao-palliative-care/feed/ 0 https://macaonews.org/people/alexandra-ascenso/ https://macaonews.org/people/alexandra-ascenso/#respond Thu, 16 Sep 2021 04:00:43 +0000 https://macaonews.org/?post_type=people&p=43008 Ascenso co-founded the TaipaVet Veterinary Clinic in 2014 with Karin Dolp and has been providing quality and trustworthy veterinary care to about 3,000 clients.

]]> https://macaonews.org/people/alexandra-ascenso/feed/ 0 https://macaonews.org/people/alice-tsang-sau-mui/ https://macaonews.org/people/alice-tsang-sau-mui/#respond Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:43:03 +0000 https://macaonews.org/?post_type=people&p=33437 Alice Tsang’s nursing career has taken her around the world and to the heights of her profession.

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]]> https://macaonews.org/people/jorge-sales-marques/feed/ 0 https://macaonews.org/people/dr-manson-fok/ https://macaonews.org/people/dr-manson-fok/#respond Mon, 25 Feb 2019 04:54:36 +0000 https://macaunews.mo/?post_type=people&p=17695 Dr Manson Fok is Dean of Health Sciences at Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) and Director of the MUST hospital. He has launched the city’s first degree course to train doctors, which will begin in September 2019.

]]> https://macaonews.org/people/dr-manson-fok/feed/ 0 https://macaonews.org/people/maggie-hoi/ https://macaonews.org/people/maggie-hoi/#respond Tue, 25 Sep 2018 03:58:12 +0000 https://macaunews.mo/?post_type=people&p=16688 After graduating Cambridge university, Maggie Hoi moved back home to Macao to start her career at the the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences. She continues her quest to apply the Dan-Shen and Chuanxiong herbs towards a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease.

]]> https://macaonews.org/people/maggie-hoi/feed/ 0 https://macaonews.org/people/mario-evora/ https://macaonews.org/people/mario-evora/#respond Sat, 24 Mar 2018 03:21:13 +0000 https://macaunews.mo/?post_type=people&p=15303 Mário became interested in medicine when he was 15 or 16 years old. “I chose the only thing in sciences for which mathematics was not a compulsory discipline.”

]]> https://macaonews.org/people/mario-evora/feed/ 0 https://macaonews.org/people/wendy-chan/ https://macaonews.org/people/wendy-chan/#respond Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:12:33 +0000 https://macaunews.mo/?post_type=people&p=11111 Wendy Chan is founder and clinic director of PhysioOne Centre. Born in Macao in 1975, she moved with her family to Toronto, Canada at the age of 13. In high school, she volunteered in hospitals and nursing homes which paved the path to her future career.

]]> https://macaonews.org/people/wendy-chan/feed/ 0 https://macaonews.org/people/ruan-bester/ https://macaonews.org/people/ruan-bester/#respond Tue, 11 Oct 2016 09:55:18 +0000 http://macaunews.localhost/?post_type=people&p=10528 Ruan Bester is the founder and practicing veterinarian at the Royal Veterinary Center Macao opened in 2013. He has been in Macao since 2004.

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