Dr. Ming-Tat Cheung

COMMUNITY

Dr. Ming-Tat Cheung has been the chairman and president of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto since 1989. He has been a clinical cardiologist for over 30 years. His professional involvement has included: member of the Ontario Medical Association’s Council; president of the Clinical Society and chief of Cardiology and Internal Medicine at Humber Memorial Hospital; founding member of the Chinese International Heart Health Network; and a lecturer at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine. Some of Dr. Cheung’s past and present community and charitable activities have included his appointment by the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship as facilitator for the merger of the Mon-Sheong and Yee-Hong seniors’ homes. He was a member of the community settlement program for Vietnamese refugees in the 1980s. He participated in Metro Toronto Week in Hong Kong in 1993 to promote business opportunities in Scarborough with former Scarborough mayors Joyce Trimmer and Mayor Frank Faubert. He was a member of the City of North York’s Committee on Race Relations; he was a founding member and president of the Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals (FCCP). He assisted the official opening of the Phase I Chinese Cultural Centre in 1998 and its Phase II expansion in 2006 and worked with thousands of volunteers for the past 19 years in planning, fundraising and development of the centre. The centre is now a landmark of the City of Toronto and cultural hub for all community groups with different cultural and ethnic backgrounds in the GTA. He is also the past-president of the CMC (Canadian Multicultural Council, Asians in Ontario), an organization consisting of representatives from 18 different Asian regions and countries that promotes cultural understanding and racial harmony. Other contributions include the formation of the Community Coalition Concerned About SARS which was founded during the SARS outbreak in 2003 and features over 60 community groups. He also initiated and participated in fundraising activities during the Asian tsunamis and South Asian earthquakes in 2005.