Invited Speakers - IHH Quality Summit 2025

Keynote Speakers

Professor Chak-sing Lau

Vice-President & Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Health) and Dean of Medicine
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Professor Chak-sing Lau

Vice-President & Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Health) and Dean of Medicine
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Professor Chak-sing Lau is currently Vice-President & Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Health) and Dean of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong. He is meanwhile Chair and Daniel CK Yu Professor in Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology of the University's Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed).

He presided over the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (2016 – 2020), a statutory body for medical and dental specialist training in Hong Kong which is also a key advisory body to the HKSAR Government on health-related policies. Today, he sits on numerous strategic committees/ working groups of the Health Bureau, Hospital Authority and Department of Health. He is also a member of the Research Council under the Health Bureau.

Professor Lau is known as a pioneer for establishing and advancing rheumatology in Hong Kong, Asia and beyond. In 2022, he was selected as an Honorary Member of the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR), and elected as Member of Academia Europaea in 2023, and conferred the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa by the University of Glasgow in 2024. He is Honorary Fellow of the American College of Physicians; the Academy of Medicine, Singapore; Singapore College of Physicians; Royal College of Physicians of Thailand; Academy of Medicine of Malaysia; the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland; and the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.

Professor Nick Watts

Director of Centre for Sustainable Medicine
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Professor Nick Watts

Director of Centre for Sustainable Medicine
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Professor Watts is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Medicine, leading NUS's efforts to accelerate the transition to net zero and resilient healthcare systems, across the world.

Prior to NUS, he worked as the Chief Sustainability Officer for the NHS where he spearheaded the national health system's efforts to deliver low-carbon healthcare across the country. He is a medical doctor, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians' Faculty of Public Health, and has worked as the Executive Director of the Lancet Countdown, and the Global Climate and Health Alliance.

Session Speakers

Professor Chunxue Bai

Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Parkway Shanghai Hospital
China

Professor Chunxue Bai

Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Parkway Shanghai Hospital
China

Dr. Chunxue Bai is Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine Parkway Shanghai Hospital. He is also the Emeritus Professor of Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, Chief of Shanghai Engineering Research Center of IoT for Respiratory Medicine，Director of Shanghai Respiratory Research Institute, Chair of Chinese Alliance against Lung Cancer and Editor-in-Chief of Clinical e-Health. He is the editor-in-chief of 4 books on the Internet of Things in medicine. He has been studying AI for early detection of lung cancer from pulmonary nodules since 2014 and introducing the technology for the 1000 sub-centers for pulmonary nodules. Dr. Bai's International Reputation is demonstrated by his election as the Chair of Chinese Alliance against Lung Cancer and the President of the International Association for Metaverse in Medicine. Dr. Bai launched Chinese journal "Metaverse in Medicine" in 2024, and aiming to use AI based Metaverse in Medicine to serve the cancer patients anywhere and anytime.

Mr Peter Camille Borer

Non Executive Director and Sr Advisor to the Chairman
The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited
Hong Kong

Mr Peter Camille Borer

Non Executive Director and Sr Advisor to the Chairman
The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited
Hong Kong

Mr Borer joined The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotel company in 1981 and has been responsible for developing the groups high standards of customer service and operational excellence. Following various operational roles, he was appointed General Manager of The Peninsula Hong Kong in 1994, taking on additional regional responsibility for the group's Asia hotel portfolio in 1999. He was appointed as Chief Operating Officer in April 2004 and held this position until his retirement in 2024. He is a Graduate of Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne which awarded him a Life Time Achievement award. He is an Advisory Board Member of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Gleneagles Hospital Hong Kong. He was honored by the French President as Chevalier dans L"Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur.

Professor Hao Chen

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Director of Collaboration Center for Medical and Engineering Innovation
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong

Professor Hao Chen

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Director of Collaboration Center for Medical and Engineering Innovation
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong

Prof. Hao Chen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of CSE&CBE, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He leads the Smart Lab focusing on large and trustworthy AI for healthcare. He serves as Director of Collaboration Center for Medical and Engineering Innovation, HKUST. He received the Ph.D. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2017. He has 100+ publications (Google Scholar Citations 35K+, h-index 79) in Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, IEEE-TMI, MIA, CVPR, ICCV, etc. He also has rich industrial research experience and holds a dozen of patents in AI and medical image analysis. He received several premium awards such as Asian Young Scientist Fellowship, MICCAI Young Scientist Impact Award, and several best paper awards. He serves as the Associate Editor of multiple journals including IEEE TMI, TNNLS, JBHI, etc. He also led the team winning 15 medical grand challenges.

Professor Celine Chui

Assistant Professor
School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Professor Celine Chui

Assistant Professor
School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Professor Chui is an Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing at HKU. She was an academic scholar at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicines in United Kingdom and currently a visiting scholar at the City St George's University of London. She received multiple award and recognitions including World's top 2% most cited scientists by Stanford University, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine Outstanding Research Output Award, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine Knowledge Exchange (KE) Award, the John Snow Award and Emerging Leader Award from the International Society on Pharmacoepidemiology. She has published more than 130 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as The Lancet Infectious Disease, JAMA Internal Medicine, BMJ, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and Neurology.

Her research interest is utilizing real-world evidence to enhance population health outcomes through knowledge translation and dissemination science. She is the principal investigator or research lead of several funded competitive grants including Collaborative Research Fund, Health and Medical Research Fund Fellowship / Commission, Early Career Scheme, General Research Fund and Innovation and Technology Commission Partnership Research Programme. Professor Chui is also one of the lead researchers in the COVID-19 Vaccines Adverse Events Response and Evaluation (CARE) Programme, a comprehensive surveillance programme to monitor known and potential adverse events of COVID-19 vaccines. She is the current chair and convener of NeuroGEN (Neurological and Mental Health Global Epidemiology Network).

She developed an AI-powered risk prediction tool for assessing the risk of cardiovascular events among the Chinese population, named Personalised Cardiovascular Disease Risk Assessment for Chinese (P-CARDIAC). It demonstrated outstanding performance following validation with comprehensive data from Hong Kong. She is now leading an on-going implementation study of P-CARDIAC which will have a significant impact on improvements in patient outcomes and a reduction in healthcare burden.

Professor Amy Fu

Research Professor
Division of Life Science
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong

Professor Amy Fu

Research Professor
Division of Life Science
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong

Dr. Amy Kit-Yu FU is a Research Professor in the Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Nervous System Disorders, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She also serves as the R&D Director of the Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, an InnoHK Center.

Her research primarily focuses on understanding the mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and developing therapeutic strategies. Her significant contributions to the field include discovering the roles of cell-surface receptors in impaired synaptic functions and plasticity in AD, as well as understanding the mechanisms of microglia that underlie the impaired clearance of amyloid-beta in AD. Dr. Fu has recently expanded her research focus to human studies, encompassing genomic, proteomic, and endophenotype analyses of AD. Her work in identifying novel biomarkers of AD has helped fill a key knowledge gap in this field. Additionally, she possesses extensive research experience in AD drug discovery.

Professor Terence Lau

Interim Chief Innovation Officer
Senior Advisor to the President and Vice-Chancellor
Honorary Professor, School of Chinese Medicine
Director, Wu Jieh Yee Institute of Translational Chinese Medicine Research
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong

Professor Terence Lau

Professor Terence Lok-Ting Lau is specialized in biotechnology research and has developed a number of innovative technologies in the past 20 years. He is the Interim Chief Innovation Officer of the Hong Kong Baptist University, also a Senior Advisor to the President and Vice-Chancellor, Honorary Professor of the School of Chinese Medicine and Director of Wu Jieh Yee Institute of Translational Chinese Medicine Research. He is the founder and Chairman of Food Safety Consortium, a charitable organisation which is the first WHO/FAO Codex Alimentarius NGO observer from China. He is also the founding Chairman of the Board of the DISH Global Centre for Food Safety & Quality, a non-profit alliance to promote food related collaborations among EU - Hong Kong / China / Asia Pacific.

Professor Lau has served various advisory roles such as the member of the Advisory Council on Food and Environmental Hygiene and the Expert Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance of HKSAR Government. He has been appointed as a committee member of the National Technical Committee on Biometrology of China since 2009, and was a Senior Advisor to United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).

Professor Lau has published in top tier scientific journals including Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine and Nature Communications, etc. He has co-developed five Chinese National Standards and is the recipient of the Beijing Municipal Technology Award and Chinese Medical and Technological Award. He has also been awarded the International Leadership Award by the International Association for Food Protection in the United States in recognition of his contributions to food safety.

Professor Anne Lee

Director
Shenzhen Hospital Accreditation Research Center
China

Professor Anne Lee

Director
Shenzhen Hospital Accreditation Research Center
China

Current Key Appointments:
• Director, Shenzhen Hospital Accreditation Research Center;
• Deputy Director, Medical Specialist Training Center;
• Chief of Service (Clinical Oncology Center), University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital;
• Coordinator of the UICC TNM Global Advisory Group;
• Chairman, Hong Kong Nasopharyngeal Cancer Study Group;
• Vice-Chairman, Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society;
• Hong Kong Ambassador, World Cancer Research Fund;
• Honorary Professor, University of Hong Kong, & Peking Union Medical College Hospital

Previous Key Appointments:
• Deputy Hospital Chief Executive, University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital;
• Head of Clinical Oncology Department, & Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Charity Foundation Professor in Holistic Cancer Care, University of Hong Kong;
• Board of Director, Union for International Cancer Control (UICC);
• Vice president, Hong Kong College of Radiologists.

Research Field: Nasopharyngeal Cancer.

International Honors: key awards include
• Honorary Fellow by the American College of Radiology;
• Honorary Membership by the Radiological Society of North America;
• Honorary Membership by the European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology.

Professor Tatia Lee

Chair Professor of Psychological Science and Clinical Psychology
Department of Psychology
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Professor Tatia Lee

Chair Professor of Psychological Science and Clinical Psychology
Department of Psychology
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Tatia Lee is the Chair Professor of Psychological Science and Clinical Psychology, as well as the May Endowed Professor in Neuropsychology at The University of Hong Kong. Her research delves into the frontiers of neuropsychology and human neuroscience, focusing on the neuroplastic mechanisms that underlie both neurocognitive and emotional processes, which support normal and pathological psychological functions. Professor Lee has authored over 350 influential scientific publications, highlighting her significant contributions to the field. She has received extensive international and national recognition for her outstanding research, including her election as a fellow of prestigious learned societies, such as the UK Academy of Social Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences. Additionally, she is the Founding Chair of the Clinical Neuropsychological Society under the Chinese Cognitive Science Society and serves as a Visiting Professor at King's College London.

Professor Wing-hong Seto

Co-Director
WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Professor Wing-hong Seto

Co-Director
WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Professor WH Seto has been a Clinical Microbiologist for many years and was the first Chief of Service (COS) of the Department of Microbiology of Queen Mary Hospital, from 1993 to 2010. He was also the first Chief Infection Control Officer (CICO) of the Hospital Authority.

The WHO has also regularly assigned him as advisor for various projects in Antibiotics Resistance and Infection Control; and he is a core group member for the WHO Hand Hygiene guideline. He was also a member of the Emergency Committee of the International Health Regulations (IHR) of the WHO for the 2009 Flu Pandemic, a member of the Global Infection Prevention and Control Network (GIPCN). In the recent COVID-19 pandemic, he is also an expert in the WHO GDG (Guidance Development Group).

Professor Hongxia Yang

Executive Director of the PolyU Academy for Artificial Intelligence
Director of The University Research Facility in Big Data Analytics
Associate Dean (Global Engagement) of Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong

Professor Hongxia Yang

Prof. Hongxia Yang, Associate Dean of Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences & Professor, PhD from Duke University, has published over 150 top conference and journal papers, and held more than 50 patents. She has been awarded the highest prize of the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Super AI Leader (SAIL Award), the second prize of the 2020 National Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of Science and Technology Progress of the Chinese Institute of Electronics in 2021, the Forbes China Top 50 Women in Science and Technology and Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award First Class in 2022, AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award since 2023 and Top World 50 Women in AI and Web3 by CoinDesk in 2025. She used to work as the ByteDance US LLM Head, AI Scientist and Director in Alibaba Group, Principal Data Scientist at Yahoo! Inc and Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, joint adjunct professor at Zhejiang University Shanghai Advanced Research Institute respectively. She founded the foundation model teams at both Alibaba and ByteDance and is a pioneer in the field of Generative AI.

Professor Paul Yip

Director, HKJC Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention
Chair Professor (Population Health), Department of Social Work and Social Administration
Associate Dean (Institutional Advancement & Knowledge Exchange), Faculty of Social Sciences
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Professor Paul Yip

Professor Yip is the Chair Professor (Population Health) at the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Associate Dean (Institutional Advancement & Knowledge Exchange) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Director of the University's HKJC Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention. He is the principal investigator of the following: OPENUP – a 24 hour online emotional support project, a community-based suicide prevention project for the Wong Tai Sin District, poverty alleviation programs, and the Quality Thematic Network on developing mental wellness for schools in Hong Kong etc. He is interested in identifying and developing good practices for promoting wellbeing in the community. His monograph is on 'Understanding Poverty in Hong Kong', which has won the 11th Hong Kong Book Prize held. He is serving as the Chair of the Research Committee of the Family Planning Association of Hong Kong (2012-present), and was the interim chair of the ESEAOR of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (2017-2018), the Secretary General of Asian Population Association (2014-2017), the chairman of the committee of preventing students' suicide (2016), a member of the Steering Committee on Population Policy (2012-2013), a vice-president of the International Association of Suicide Prevention (2009-2013), and an associate member of the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong SAR Government (2014-2016). He has received various awards and recognitions, including the Rehabilitation International Centennial Award for significant contribution in 2023; Hong Kong Spirit Award by the South China Morning Post and Sino Group in 2021, the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship in 2020, Australia-China Alumni Award (Research) in 2019, a Medal of Honor from the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2017, the Stengel Research award in 2012, an outstanding supervisor and researcher of the University of Hong Kong in 2009, 2011 and 2017 respectively, and a distinguished alumni of La Trobe University in 2008. He has published more than 700 research papers relating to population health and suicide prevention. His Chinese books include "Understanding Poverty in Hong Kong (Third Edition)", "Be with You: Learning from Suicide Notes", and "Understanding Poverty in Hong Kong (Revised Edition)".

Professor Doris Yu

Professor and Chair of Research
School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Deputy Director, Sau Po Centre on Aging
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Professor Doris Yu

Professor and Chair of Research
School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Deputy Director, Sau Po Centre on Aging
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Professor Doris Yu is the Chair in Research at the School of Nursing, LKS Faculty of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Sau Po Center on Aging, the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on healthy aging promotion, disease management models for heart failure and dementia, and family caregiving. Her work has extensively integrated the concepts in dyadic science, digital healthcare and integrated care model. She has received over USD 18M external competitive grant to support the research work. Her research has been published in high impact journals in cardiology, gerontology and nursing, and she is awarded with the World Top 20% Scientist by Stanford University since 2018. Professor Yu is very enthusiastic to promote evidence-based practice. She has actively engaged in the Aging Expert Panel of the American Academy of Nursing, and serves a number of expert advisory panels of both government and non-government sectors to support priority-setting for aged care policy and service. Over the years, Professor Yu actively engages in science implementation and has developed various territory-wide evidence-based programs to increase the preparedness of rapid population aging in the educational and healthcare pursuits.