Professor Roberts graduated in medicine from Manchester. In 2000 she was appointed Professor of Medical Education at the University of Leeds and was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2006. Professor Roberts has served as a council member of the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) London and Chair of the Association for the Study of Medical Education and also previously a Censor for the RCP London. She was President of the Association for Medical Education in Europe until August 2019.

Professor Roberts has been involved in technology and learning at the School of Medicine at Leeds. Professor Roberts was awarded the 2017 Asia Pacific Conference MILES Award for her contributions to medical education and academic medicine and an honorary doctorate in Medical Education by the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur. In 2019 she was part of the Topol review on the educational implications of the increasing influence of digital technologies on healthcare delivery. In June 2022 she was awarded a Doctores Honoris Causa University of Helsinki Finland and in August 2022 she was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for Medical Education in Europe.

Panelists:

Dr Rex Hui
Clinical Practitioner, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, HKUMed
Honorary Resident, Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital

Professor Gilberto Leung
Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), HKUMed
Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine, HKUMed

Professor Samuel Wong
Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Medicine, CUHK
Director, School of Public Health and Primary Care and Thomas Jing Centre for Mindfulness Research and Training, CUHK

Moderator: 

Professor CS Lau
Dean of Medicine, HKU

Professor Qiao is Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Vice President of China Association for Science and Technology, Executive Vice President of Peking University, President of Peking University Health Science Center, President of Peking University Third Hospital, Academician of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Honorary Fellow of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She is the Director of The National Clinical Research Center on Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBYGN) Disease, Vice President of Chinese Medical Association, President of China Women Doctors Association and etc.

For more than 30 years, Professor Qiao has been engaged in clinical, basic research and transformation related to maternity and reproductive health. She has led the team to achieve a number of technical and theoretical breakthroughs in infertility causes and clinical treatments, the protection and preservation of female fertility, the molecular mechanism of human gametogenesis and embryo development as well as developing new pre-implantation diagnosis methods, protecting the health of women and children throughout their life cycle. As the first or corresponding author, she published a number of achievements with international influence and won the Highlight Achievement Award in Science and Technology in 2014 and 2015, Top Ten Progress Awards in China’s Life Sciences in 2019, National Award for Progress in Science and Technology (Second Award), National Innovation Award and etc.

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Panelists:

Dr Joshua Ho
Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, HKUMed

Professor Tse Hung Fat
Chairperson, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, HKUMed
Chief of Service and Chief of Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital

Professor Xu Ming
Vice Dean, Graduate School of Peking University
Vice Director of Institute of Vascular Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital

Moderator: 

Professor CS Lau
Dean of Medicine, HKU

Professor Darzi is Co-Director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and holds the Paul Hamlyn Chair of Surgery. He is a Consultant Surgeon at Imperial College NHS Trust and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. Professor Darzi is non-executive director of NHS England, Co-Director of the NHS Digital Academy and Chair of the Accelerated Access Collaborative.

His research focus is mainly in convergence science in areas of engineering, physical and data sciences including robotics, sensing, imaging and digital technologies.

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Panelists:

Professor Philip Chiu
Professor, Department of Surgery, CUHK
Director, Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center, AIR@InnoHK

Dr Christian Fang
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, School of Clinical Medicine, HKUMed

Ms Nisa Leung
Managing Partner, Qiming Venture Partners

Professor Mak Tak-wah
Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Clinical Medicine, HKUMed

Moderator:

Professor Gabriel M Leung
Dean of Medicine, HKU

Professor Wang Chen is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, an international member of the US National Academy of Medicine, a foreign member of Academia Europaea, an ordinary member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a member of the CAMS Academic Advisory Committee.

Professor Wang has over 30 years of experience and specialties in pulmonary and critical care medicine. His primary areas of research include clinical and basic research for complex conditions in respiratory medicine, public health, and health policy. His research and policy interests also include medical education, health system reform and medical technology innovation system. Professor Wang has published more than 260 articles in international medical journals, including New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.

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Panelists:

Dr Bernhard Schwartländer
Global Health Envoy, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ms Priscilla Wong
Chairman, HKU Council

Professor Zheng Zhi-Jie
Director, China Country Office, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Moderator:

Professor Gabriel M Leung
Dean of Medicine, HKU