Dominic Lam

Dominic Lam Ka-wah (born 2 April 1957) (Traditional Chinese: 林嘉華 Simplified Chinese: 林嘉华) is an actor in Hong Kong, and a disc jockey in both Vancouver, British Columbia and Toronto, Ontario.

Biography

Early Life in Hong Kong

Lam was originally a graduate from the first annual of the Hong Kong Junior Police Training Program in 1974. He was then the host of the television program, "Junior Police Call". In the 1970s, he was involved in the Rediffusion Television, where he was starred in a few television dramas. In the 1980s, Lam worked for the Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB). In 1998, he immigrated to Toronto, Ontario, which marked the end to his career in television until 2006.

Life in Toronto, Ontario

After his immigration to Toronto, he worked at Fairchild Media Group in Richmond Hill, Ontario. There, he worked as a disc jockey for a program named "Lam Ka Wah Carnival". This program is aired in the Greater Toronto Area as well as in the Greater Vancouver Area. He also hosted many Chinese television shows for Fairchild TV, a television station servicing Chinese immigrants in Canada.

Dominic Lam (physician)

Dominic Lam is an American physician.

Biography

He was born in Swatow, grew up in Hong Kong. He studied under two Nobel Laureates at Harvard Medical School before joining the Harvard Faculty and subsequently became Professor of Ophthalmology and Chairman of Center for Biotechnology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He is the president of the World Eye Organisation

Timeline

In 1989, Lam became the founding director of Hong Kong Institute of Biotechnology and received the U.S. High Tech Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He was also appointed a member of the U.S. President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities by George H.W. Bush, and received a Presidential Medal of Merit.

1991, Lam was named “Asia Society Man of the Year”. Lam wrote two articles for Scientific American.

1999: Lam was honoured as an accomplished and influential artist by the China Academy of Art, The Artist Association of China and the National Palace Museum of China.

2001-2002: Lam created “This Land is Our Land” and “A Galaxy on Earth”, two large very large paintings, for the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, the official residence used for foreign government leaders and dignitaries when visiting Beijing.