Chinese University of Hong Kong names top surgeon as new head of medical school
- Professor Philip Chiu, currently an associate dean at the faculty of medicine, will take up the position in February next year
- An internationally renowned scholar on upper gastrointestinal surgery, Chiu joined the faculty in 2005
A top surgeon has been named the new head of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s medical school and is set to take up the position starting in February next year.
The university on Thursday said Professor Philip Chiu Wai-yan, currently an associate dean at the faculty, would succeed Professor Francis Chan Ka-leung, who had served in the position for more than 10 years.
An internationally renowned scholar on upper gastrointestinal surgery, Chiu joined the faculty in 2005. He is chief of the division of upper gastrointestinal and metabolic surgery at the school.
He is the director of the Multi-scale Medical Robotics Centre supported by the government’s InnoHK initiative, and also of the Endoscopy Centre at the university’s Institute of Digestive Disease.
Chiu thanked the university’s search committee and the faculty for their support, and praised Chan’s leadership over the past decade.
He added that he would build on the achievements of his predecessors and further strengthen the faculty’s position as a leading medical school in the region.
“In the coming months, I will be meeting with different stakeholders, actively listening to their expectations and suggestions for the faculty,” he said.
