2016 - Dr. Herbert Ho Ping Kong MBBS ’65 – In recognition of exceptional service in medical education
Dr Herbert Ho Ping Kong is the senior consulting physician at the University Health Network in Canada and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
He is a renowned internist and a distinguished graduate of The University of the West Indies. He has had an extensive career as an exemplary physician and teacher, whose practice has focused on difficult diagnostic problems, for which he is internationally recognised.
Pauline Barrow, widow of consultant gastroenterologist Orrin Barrow, visited the UWI Museum and we took the opportunity to get some background on this iconic musician-doctor whose medical medals are now in the UWI Museum collection.