Li Shu Fan

Li Shu Fan

Li Shu-fan (1887- November 24, 1966) was a leader of the medical profession in Hong Kong and a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

Li graduated from the Hong Kong College of Medicine in 1908 and later trained at Edinburgh University.

Li was the Minister of Public Health under Sun Yat-sen (a fellow alumnus of the Hong Kong College of Medicine). He was the head of the Canton Kung Yee University Medical School in Guangzhou (then called Canton) from 1923–1924; he treated Mikhail Borodin at this time. In 1926, he was named to head the Yeung Wo Nursing Home, which under his leadership was reorganized and renamed to the Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital. He retired from medical practice in 1958, but remained Chairman of the Board and Medical Superintendent until his death in 1966. His younger brother Li Shu Pui succeeded him as Superintendent.^[1]

He was a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council from 1937-1941.

The Li Shu Fan Medical Foundation was established in March 1963.^[2]

In 1964, he published his autobiography, Hong Kong Surgeon.

A building at the University of Hong Kong is named for him.

Sources

• University of Hong Kong, Growing With Hong Kong: The University and Its Graduates, the First 90 Years : A Convocation Project, ISBN 962-209-613-1, pp. 50, 113. excerpts
• Li Shu Fan, Hong Kong Surgeon, 1964. reviewed in Chest 45:4:448 doi:10.1378/chest.45.4.448
• T. C. Cheng, "Chinese Unofficial Members of the Legislative and Executive Councils in Hong Kong up to 1941", Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 9, 1969. (A lecture delivered to the Branch on 29 April 1968) full text

Notes

1. obituary of Li Shu Pui, BMJ (British Medical Journal) 2005;331:908 (15 October 2005) doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7521.908
2. http://www.hongkongsanatorium.com/eng/LSF_%20Foundation/LSF_Foundation_main.html