Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Li Ch'ing-mao

Dr. T. M. Li

李清茂字必魁

(Li Ch'ing-mao)

Dr. T. M. Li was born in Honolulu in 1884. He studied at Oahu College, Honolulu, between 1898 and 1902; and at St. John's University, Shanghai, between 1902 and 1907. He graduated in medicine at St. John's in 1907. Mr. Li went to the United States in June 1907, and for two years studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was awarded a prize for clinical medicine and graduated with the degree of M. D. He returned to China in August 1909 and was engaged as a professor in the University Medical School at Canton, where he remained until 1913. During 1913-14 he was physician-in-charge of the Hunan Red Cross Hospital and associate physician of the Yale Hospital at Changsha. Dr. Li visited America in January 1915 and joined the Philadelphia Polyclinc Hospital and College for Graduates of Medicine where he graduated with a diploma in ophthalmology in 1915. Later he worked under Professor de Schwenitz, of the University of Pennsylvania for about a year. He returned to China in 1916 and became a member of the Red Cross Hospital and the Harvard out patient department staff, occupying this position for more than half year. In 1917 he went to Peking and joined the Union Medical Collage. He was in charge of the eye, ear, nose and throat departments for two years. In 1919 he was appointed associate professor in ophthalmology of the college. Four years of service with the Union Medical College entitled him to a vacation in America of one year and a half, during which time he did special research work under the widely known, eye specialist Dr. Verhoeff, Boston. Dr. Li was a member of China Medical Missionary Association between 1909 and 1914, and of National Medical Association of China in 1916. Dr. Li returned to China in 1923 and is at present working in the Union Medical College, Peking.