Exceptional Service Award
Highlighting outstanding careers
The Exceptional Service Award was first awarded at the inaugural meeting of the DMAA in 1958. Since then, we’ve honoured a different senior alumnus every year. Our recipients are always highly respected in their field, and their careers and service in the practice of medicine have been outstanding.
2023 Recipient
Dr. Orlando Hung (MD ’83)
Dr. Orlando Hung has had a profound impact on Dalhousie University, beginning first as an award-winning pharmacy student in 1976 and then as an inspirational medical student, and anesthesia resident. After a two-years leave as a research fellow in clinical pharmacology at Stanford University, he returned home to Dalhousie to begin his formidable career as an anesthesiologist, pharmacologist, educator, researcher and inventor.
Dr. Hung is internationally renowned as a leader in the specialty of anesthesiology. An ingenious and innovative thinker, his most recent invention is the FIVAFlowTM monitor device which aids in safe administration of IV fluid by monitoring and alerting clinicians and nurses. He has also made significant contributions to the field of advanced airway management in assisting the development of Airway management Guidelines for the Canadian Society of Anesthesiologists. Dr. Hung has made significant contributions to the anesthesia Global Health initiative, in teaching and curriculum development, in countries working to build anesthesia capability, particularly in low-income countries like Rwanda. Dr Hung has been a longstanding supporter and volunteer with the Canadian Anesthesiologists Society International Education Foundation (CASIEF).