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47-540: VAPAHCS is a teaching hospital associated with the Stanford University School of Medicine . It provides patient care services as well as education and research. Health care is provided in areas of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, rehabilitation, neurology, oncology, dentistry, geriatrics, and extended care. At VAPAHCS, 1,300 university residents, interns, and students are trained annually. VAPAHCS operates nearly 900 beds, including three nursing homes and

94-496: A US$ 55 million Series A round in Blockstream , the leader in blockchain related technologies, and also invested in a startup incubator fund Expa, that works with the founders to build new companies. In September 2017, Li worked with Alibaba's Jack Ma to bring AlipayHK , a digital wallet service, to Hong Kong . Through CK Infrastructure Holdings Limited, Li owns 75% of British water supplier Northumbrian Water ,

141-463: A 0.8% stake in social networking website Facebook for US$ 120 million in two separate rounds, and invested an estimated US$ 50 million in the music streaming service Spotify . Some time between late 2009 and early 2010, Li Ka-shing led a US$ 15.5 million Series B round of financing for Siri Inc. In 2011, Horizons Ventures invested in Summly , a website-summarizing app. Notably,

188-579: A 100-bed homeless domiciliary serving more than 85,000 enrolled veterans. VAPAHCS is home to a variety of regional treatment centers, including a Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center, Spinal Cord Injury Center, a Comprehensive Rehabilitation Center, a Traumatic Brain Injury Center, the Western Blind Rehabilitation Center, a Geriatric Research Educational and Clinical Center, a Homeless Veterans Rehabilitation program, and

235-618: A controlling stake of 67% in Hutchison Essar , a joint venture Mobile operator in India, to Vodafone for US$ 11.1 billion . Li has also made a foray into the technology business, where his investment and venture capital firm Horizons Ventures is specifically allocated towards backing new internet and technology startup firms, and bought a stake in doubleTwist . His other firm, the Li Ka Shing Foundation bought

282-505: A cross-shareholding structure that was designed to place control in the hands of Britain's Keswick family despite their less than 10% holdings in the group. In 1984, the company also moved its legal domicile from Hong Kong to another British overseas territory – Bermuda , in anticipation of the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to People's Republic of China in 1997. In an effort to drive forward divestitures of assets in Hong Kong and

329-470: A large foreign buyer. Fortunately for Li, the buyer placed a large order and a few years later, Li grew to be the largest supplier of plastic flowers in Asia and made a fortune selling them. In 1958, believing rents would continue to rise, Li decided to purchase a site and develop his own factory building. An opportunity to acquire more land arrived after the 1967 riots when many people fled Hong Kong, and, as

376-726: A long history of educating physician assistants (PAs). Stanford University partnered with Foothill College in 1971 to form the Primary Care Associate Program (PCAP) which has graduated more than 1,500 PAs. The last PCAP class graduated in 2018. Today, the Stanford School of Medicine offers a Master of Science in PA Studies program that seeks to train highly qualified clinical PAs who can practice in any area of medicine and also be leaders in community health, research, and medical education. The program offers

423-560: A long period of marriage that lasted for 27–28 years from 1962 until her sudden death on New Year's Day 1990 due to a suspected drug overdose (other sources name the cause as cardiac arrest). She was the daughter of his maternal uncle (mother's younger brother), Cheung Jing-on (1908–1996) and his wife, Hew Bik-yin (1911–2002), who were also from the Chaoshan region. Both settled in British Hong Kong long before Li migrated to

470-673: A major stake in Hutchison Whampoa from Hong Kong Bank through Cheung Kong . A subsidiary of CK Hutchison, AS Watson (ASW), is a retail operator with over 15,000 stores. Its portfolio encompasses retail brands in Europe such as Superdrug (UK), Marionnaud (France), Kruidvat (Benelux countries), and in Asia including health and beauty retailer Watson's store and wine cellars et al., PARKnSHOP supermarkets (and spin-off brands), and Fortress electrical appliance stores. ASW also produces and distributes water products and beverages in

517-523: A net worth of US$ 35.3 billion in July 2021. His two sons, Victor Li and Richard Li , are also figures in the Hong Kong business scene. Victor Li succeeded his father as Chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings and Chairman of CK Asset Holdings, while Richard Li is Chairman of PCCW , the largest telecom company in Hong Kong. They are both Canadian citizens. He is a follower of Buddhism . Married to his first cousin , Chong Yuet-ming (1933–1990), they had

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564-434: A novel approach to curriculum delivery and expanded clinical opportunities as well as interprofessional education, with PA students taking courses side by side with MD students. The program is 30 months in length, accepts 27 students each year, has an acceptance rate of less than 2%. In the 2021 U.S. News & World Report rankings, Stanford was ranked fourth in the nation among medical schools for research. Admission to

611-712: A nursing school and made provision for the creation of Lane Medical Library . In 1908, Cooper Medical College was deeded to Stanford University as a gift. It became Stanford's medical institution, initially called the Stanford Medical Department and later the Stanford University School of Medicine. In the 1950s, the Stanford Board of Trustees decided to move the school to the Stanford main campus near Palo Alto. The move

658-552: A period of two days. In 2013 a claim was lodged by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) against Cheung Kong Infrastructure (CKI) to pay approximately A$ 370 million in unpaid tax, penalties and interest relating to tax disputes concerning SA Power Networks and Victoria Power Networks. The dispute was resolved in 2015 when CKI entered into an agreement with the ATO. No penalty was levied against CKI and

705-409: A plant, Li founded a plastic manufacturing company in Hong Kong with personal savings and funds borrowed from relatives. Li avidly read trade publications and business news before deciding to supply the world with high quality plastic flowers at low prices. Li learned the technique of mixing colour with plastics that resemble real flowers. After retooling his shop, he prepared the plant for a visit from

752-550: A presence around the world, including China. Li came under attack from the Global Times newspaper in early 2015, when his companies put out word that it was considering selling prime Shanghai and Beijing properties. It became apparent that Li aimed at re-weighting his asset portfolio to more stable and transparent markets in the West. Concerted attacks ensued and went into a crescendo as China's economy slowed down dramatically in

799-518: A result, property prices plummeted. Li believed the political crisis would be temporary and property prices would eventually rise, and bought land from the fleeing residents at low prices. In 1971, Li officially named his real estate development company Cheung Kong ( 長江實業 ). Cheung Kong Holdings was publicly listed in Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1972. During board meetings, Li stated on a number of occasions his goal of surpassing

846-648: A stake in Ginger Software Incorporated. In 2013, Horizons Ventures invested in bitcoin payment company BitPay. In February 2015, Horizons Ventures participated in a US$ 30 million Series C funding round in Zoom Video Communications. Later in the year, Li participated in a US$ 108 million Series D round in Impossible Foods. In 2016, he continued investments in technology companies and Horizons Ventures led

893-721: A sum of approximately A$ 24 million was refunded from the A$ 64 ;million previously paid to the ATO by CKI. After his almost-70-year reign over CK Hutchison Holdings and CK Asset Holdings , Li announced his retirement on 16 March 2018 and the decision to pass control of his US$ 100 billion empire to his son, Victor Li . He is still involved in the conglomerate as a senior advisor. Besides business through his flagship companies CK Asset Holdings and CK Hutchison Holdings , Li Ka-shing has also personally invested extensively in real estate in Singapore and Canada. He

940-439: Is a port investor, developer, and operator of the largest health and beauty retailer in Asia and Europe. As of July 2023, Li is the 33rd richest person in the world, with an estimated net wealth of US$ 37.7 billion . Li invests in a wide array of industries, including transportation, real estate, financial services, retail, and energy and utilities. His conglomerate company Cheung Kong Holdings invests in many sectors of

987-916: Is part of Stanford Medicine. In 1855, Illinois physician Elias Samuel Cooper moved to San Francisco in the wake of the California Gold Rush . In cooperation with the University of the Pacific (also known as California Wesleyan College), Cooper established the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific, the first medical school on the West Coast , in 1858, on Mission Street near 3rd Street in San Francisco. However, in 1862 Cooper died, and without his leadership,

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1034-629: Is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford , California , United States. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific , founded in San Francisco in 1858. This medical institution, then called Cooper Medical College , was acquired by Stanford in 1908. The medical school moved to the Stanford campus near Palo Alto, California , in 1959. The School of Medicine, along with Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital ,

1081-714: The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce , with all proceeds going to private charitable foundations established by Li, including the Li Ka Shing Foundation in Hong Kong and the Li Ka Shing (Canada) Foundation based in Toronto , Ontario. Li was the non-executive director of the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation since 1980 and became deputy chairman of the bank in 1985. He was also Deputy Chairman of HSBC in 1991–1992. According to Bloomberg, he had

1128-519: The Jardines -owned Hongkong Land as a leading developer. The successful bid by Cheung Kong for development sites above the Central and Admiralty MTR stations in 1977 was the key to challenging Hongkong Land as the premier property developer in Hong Kong. Despite its size, Jardines decided in the 1980s to protect itself from hostile takeover by Li or other outside investors. The company implemented

1175-634: The Biosciences PhD Program, which was ranked first in 2019 among graduate programs in the biological sciences by U.S. News & World Report . In its graduate school specialties, according to U.S. News for 2019, Stanford is #1 in genetics , genomics , and bioinformatics , #1 in neuroscience and neurobiology, #1 in cell biology , #3 in biochemistry , biophysics , and structural biology , and #4 in ecology and evolutionary biology . The School of Medicine has 1,948 full-time faculty. There have been eight Nobel Prize winners over

1222-752: The Chinese Mainland, Li agreed to sell The Center , the fifth-tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong. With a value of HK$ 40.2 billion ( US$ 5.15 billion ), the deal constitutes the biggest ever office space real estate sale in the Asia-Pacific region. Li sold the Century Link complex in Shanghai for US$ 2.95 billion, the second largest transaction for a single building, according to the Financial Times . In 1979, Li purchased

1269-581: The Hong Kong economy and made up 4% of the aggregate market capitalisation of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange . Forbes Magazine and the Forbes family honoured Li Ka-shing with the first ever Malcolm S. Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award on 5 September 2006, in Singapore . In spite of his wealth, Li has cultivated a reputation for leading a frugal no-frills lifestyle, and is known to wear simple black dress shoes and an inexpensive Seiko wristwatch. He lived in

1316-633: The MD program at Stanford is highly competitive: in 2019, 6,894 people applied, 422 were interviewed, and 175 accepted for 90 spots. Stanford is one of several schools in the United States to use the multiple mini-interview system, developed at McMaster University Medical School in Canada, to evaluate candidates. Along with the School of Humanities and Science, the Stanford School of Medicine also runs

1363-481: The Medical Department of the University of the Pacific became moribund. In 1870, Cooper's nephew, Levi Cooper Lane , reactivated and reorganized the University of the Pacific's medical department, and, in 1882, Lane donated a new building at the intersection of Webster and Sacramento Streets and established the department as a separate school, the Cooper Medical College. Lane built a hospital and

1410-679: The National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). VAPAHCS maintains the third largest research program in the VA with extensive research centers in geriatrics, mental health, Alzheimer's disease, spinal cord regeneration, schizophrenia, Rehabilitation Research and Development Center, HIV research, and a Health Economics Resource Center. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Government Stanford University School of Medicine The Stanford University School of Medicine

1457-542: The School of Medicine as well as providing a new model of medical education by combining biomedical research with clinical education and information technology. The Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building also opened in 2010; it is the largest stem cell and regenerative medicine facility in North America. The Stem Cell Research Building is the first of the planned Stanford Institutes of Medicine. In addition to research facilities, it houses offices for faculty from

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1504-636: The Stanford Cancer Center and "hotel space" offices for visiting researchers. The School of Medicine has reversed the traditional teaching method of classroom time being reserved for lectures and problem-solving exercises being completed outside of school as homework; with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation , school leaders are heading up a collaboration on the use of the "flipped classroom" approach to content delivery. The School of Medicine also has

1551-674: The US. As per Forbes list of The Richest People In The World, dated 8 MARCH 2024, Li Ka-shing is ranked #38 with a net worth of $ 37.3 Billion. Li was born in Chao'an , Chaozhou in Guangdong Province in 1928 to Teochew parents named Li Yun-ching (1898–1943) and Cheung Bik-chin (1893–1984). Li and his family fled to Hong Kong in 1940 as refugees from the Sino-Japanese war . Owing to his father's death from tuberculosis , he

1598-559: The chief executive, I probably just said it a little early." However, Li was criticised by Chinese official state-run press agency Xinhua for being ambiguous in his opposition to the Umbrella movement protests and his support for Leung . Later, prior to the Legco vote, Li said that the largest threat to Hong Kong's future was if the government failed to ensure passage of the 2014–15 round of political reform . Li's business empire has

1645-434: The city. Li is plainly dressed for a Hong Kong tycoon. In the 1990s, he wore a HK$ 50 timepiece from Citizen Watch and plain ties. He later wore a Seiko . In 2016, he wore a HK$ 500 Citizen watch. His son Victor Li was kidnapped in 1996 on his way home after work by gangster Cheung Tze-keung (aka "Big Spender"). Li Ka-shing paid a ransom of HK$ 1 billion directly to Cheung, who had come to his house. A report

1692-458: The investment made Nick D'Aloisio, Summly's founder, the world's youngest person to receive a venture capital investment at just fifteen years old. In 2012, Horizons Ventures invested US$ 2.3 million in Wibbitz, a company that provides a text-to-video technology that can automatically convert any article post or feed on the web into a video in a matter of seconds. In August 2012, Li acquired

1739-400: The molecular and genetic basis of disease. The Lucile Packard Children's Hospital was completed in 1991, adding even more diversity to Stanford Medicine. In the early years of the 21st century, the School of Medicine underwent rapid construction to further expand teaching and clinical opportunities. The Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge opened in 2010; it serves as the gateway to

1786-573: The past six decades, and among its 2019 faculty members are: Li Ka Shing Sir Ka-shing Li GBM KBE JP ( Chinese : 李嘉誠 ; born 29 July 1928) is a Hong Kong billionaire business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the senior advisor for CK Hutchison Holdings and CK Asset Holdings , after he retired from the Chairman of the Board in May 2018; through it, he

1833-513: The region. CK Hutchison builds up new businesses and sells them off when shareholder value can be created. Profits were obtained in the sale of its interest in Orange to Mannesmann Group in 1999, making a profit of US$ 15.12 billion . In 2006, Li sold 20% of Hutchison's ports business to Singapore rival PSA Corporation , making a US$ 3.12 billion profit on a US$ 4 billion deal. Group subsidiary Hutchison Telecommunications sold

1880-418: The remaining 25% being held by US private equity firm KKR . Despite making losses of ~£22 million between March 2022 and July 2023, CK Group and KKR between them took £159 million in dividends from the organisation which in the same period paid its chief executive, Heidi Mottram , $ 1.24 million. In 2022 the business was fined £240,000 for discharging untreated sewage into a water course in northeast England over

1927-687: The rise of current China's paramount leader Xi Jinping . During the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests , he refused to outright condemn the protesters, instead urging for peace and calling on the authorities to respond to the protesters humanely. On 4 August 2011 at the interim results announcement for Hutchison Whampoa , Li endorsed Henry Tang for the forthcoming chief executive election . Then Li said "You all can be just like me, one-person-one-vote ( 一人一票 )." The media then looked at Li in disbelief, and pointed out that regular citizens do not get one-person-one-vote. Li then tried to laugh it off and said "maybe in 2017 they will have one-person-one-vote to choose

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1974-505: The same house for decades, in what has now become one of the most expensive districts in Hong Kong, Deep Water Bay in Hong Kong Island . Li is also a philanthropist, donating billions of dollars to charity and various other philanthropic causes, and owning the second largest private foundation in the world after Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation . In 2019, Forbes put Li in the list of most generous philanthropists outside of

2021-521: The second half of the year, and the central government sought a way to stem the capital outflows. Specific reproaches were that his asset disposals were "an act of ingratitude" and "immoral at such a sensitive juncture". Security Times , a People's Daily publication, estimated that Li has sold at least CN¥ 73.8 billion worth of assets since 2014. Li's holding companies denied divesting in China, saying that its asset disposals were being undertaken in

2068-536: Was completed in 1959. The San Francisco medical campus became Presbyterian Hospital and later California Pacific Medical Center . In the 1980s, the Medical Center launched a major expansion program. A new hospital was added in 1989 with 20 new operating rooms, state of the art intensive care and inpatient units, and other technological additions. The Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine opened in May 1989 as an interdisciplinary center focusing on

2115-515: Was forced to leave school at the age of 15 and found a job in a plastics trading company where he worked 16 hours a day. In 1950 he started his own company, Cheung Kong Industries. From manufacturing plastics, Li developed his company into a leading real estate investment company in Hong Kong that was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1972. Cheung Kong expanded by acquiring Hutchison Whampoa and Hongkong Electric Holdings in 1979 and 1985 respectively. In 1950, after learning how to operate

2162-399: Was never filed with Hong Kong police. Instead the case was pursued by mainland authorities, leading to Cheung's execution in 1998, an outcome not possible under Hong Kong law. Rumours circulated of a deal between Li and the mainland. For many years, he was considered to be a pro-Beijing figure. However, in recent years, tensions have been growing between Li and the mainland, especially with

2209-524: Was the single largest shareholder of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), the fifth largest bank in Canada, until the sale of his share in 2005 (with all proceedings donated, see below). He is also the majority shareholder of a major energy company, Husky Energy , based in Alberta , Canada. Husky was acquired by Cenovus in 2021, and Li owns 27.2% of the newly merged company. In January 2005, Li announced plans to sell his CA$ 1.2 billion stake in

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