A Celebration of life of Dr. Kun-yen Huang: NCKU
Tainan, Taiwan, 30 March, 2012
At a recent memorial service to memorize the life of founder and former Dean of the National Cheng Kung University College of Medicine (NCKUCM), Dr. Kun-yen Huang, friends and colleagues reminisced about his life and outstanding achievements.
On behalf of President Ying-jeou Ma, Vice President Vincent C. Siew presented a commendation certificate to Dr. Huang in recognition of his years of contribution to medical education and the nation.
NCKU President Hwung-Hweng Hwung recognized the distinguished contribution to the school and the critical role Dr. Huang played in founding NCKUCM, “in 1982 under the direction of Dr. Huang the NCKUCM established and since then the development of the college has followed the ideals and notions highlighted by Dr. Huang.”
Chyi-her Lin, the incumbent Dean of NCKUCM, praised Dr. Huang’s far-reaching impact on Taiwan’s medical education and commemorated him as a “Renaissance Man” for his knowledgeable, unquenchable curiosity and broad scope of interests revealing humanist ideal.
Dr. Huang had always encouraged the medical students of NCKUCM by saying “before you become a doctor, you must become an enlightened person,” and this became a motto of NCKUCM, according to Dean Lin.
Tainan City Mayor Lai Ching-te, an NCKUCM alumnus, gave tribute to his teacher, Dr. Huang, “Not only being a medical teacher but a teacher of humanities, human nature, and human rights, Dr. Huang helped found the NCKU Kun-Yen Medical Library embracing the humanistic ideal, designed a ceramic wall engraved Hippocratic oath highlighting ethic professional behavior, and elevated the requirement in values and ethics of medicine practice among the medical students.
Amy Hwei-mei Hsieh, Dr. Huang’s wife, expressed her gratitude to all the participants of the memorial service and felt great comfort by the gathering and the heartfelt ceremony, “Kun-yen was successful and lucky to have this once-in-a-life-time opportunity to work at NCKUCM with all the best colleagues and friends around and adequate resources that he needed.”
It is a blessing that Dr. Huang dedicate the prime time of his life to NCKU achieving what he believed, according to Amy Hsieh.
Dr. Kun-yen Huang passed away at Feb. 20 at the ManorCare nursing facility in Potomac, United States. He was 78 and survived by his wife, Amy Hsieh and three daughters, Nellie Huang, Amelia Hay, and Susie Huang.enditem/
At a recent memorial service to memorize the life of founder and former Dean of the National Cheng Kung University College of Medicine (NCKUCM), Dr. Kun-yen Huang, friends and colleagues reminisced about his life and outstanding achievements.
On behalf of President Ying-jeou Ma, Vice President Vincent C. Siew presented a commendation certificate to Dr. Huang in recognition of his years of contribution to medical education and the nation.
NCKU President Hwung-Hweng Hwung recognized the distinguished contribution to the school and the critical role Dr. Huang played in founding NCKUCM, “in 1982 under the direction of Dr. Huang the NCKUCM established and since then the development of the college has followed the ideals and notions highlighted by Dr. Huang.”
Chyi-her Lin, the incumbent Dean of NCKUCM, praised Dr. Huang’s far-reaching impact on Taiwan’s medical education and commemorated him as a “Renaissance Man” for his knowledgeable, unquenchable curiosity and broad scope of interests revealing humanist ideal.
Dr. Huang had always encouraged the medical students of NCKUCM by saying “before you become a doctor, you must become an enlightened person,” and this became a motto of NCKUCM, according to Dean Lin.
Tainan City Mayor Lai Ching-te, an NCKUCM alumnus, gave tribute to his teacher, Dr. Huang, “Not only being a medical teacher but a teacher of humanities, human nature, and human rights, Dr. Huang helped found the NCKU Kun-Yen Medical Library embracing the humanistic ideal, designed a ceramic wall engraved Hippocratic oath highlighting ethic professional behavior, and elevated the requirement in values and ethics of medicine practice among the medical students.
Amy Hwei-mei Hsieh, Dr. Huang’s wife, expressed her gratitude to all the participants of the memorial service and felt great comfort by the gathering and the heartfelt ceremony, “Kun-yen was successful and lucky to have this once-in-a-life-time opportunity to work at NCKUCM with all the best colleagues and friends around and adequate resources that he needed.”
It is a blessing that Dr. Huang dedicate the prime time of his life to NCKU achieving what he believed, according to Amy Hsieh.
Dr. Kun-yen Huang passed away at Feb. 20 at the ManorCare nursing facility in Potomac, United States. He was 78 and survived by his wife, Amy Hsieh and three daughters, Nellie Huang, Amelia Hay, and Susie Huang.enditem/
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