Wai Yan Philip Chiu#
| Membership Number: | 7255 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.med.cuhk.edu.hk/staff/professor-chiu-wai-yan-philip |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9292-112X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 02/2024 - present Dean, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 02/2024 - present Director, CUHK Medical Centre
- 07/2021 - present Honorary Cluster Service Team Head, Upper Gastrointestinal and Metabolic Surgery, New Territories East Cluster, Hospital Authority
- 2019 - present Director, Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 11/2018 - present Honorary Director, Endoscopy Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital and New Territories East Cluster, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong
- 2018 - 2024 Professor (Adjunct), Surgery Alfred Hospital, Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Australia
- 06/2014 - present Director of CUHK Chow Yuk Ho Technology Center for Innovative Medicine
- 2011 - 2021 Director of CUHK Jockey Club Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2010 - 2024 Jan Director of Education and Training, Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2010 - present Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fields of Scholarship
- Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD) and novel endoscopic procedures
- Robotics in endoluminal surgery
- Novel endoscopic technologies for diagnosis of early GI cancers
- Natural Orifices Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES)
- Oesophageal cancer management
- Minimally invasive and robotic oesophagectomy
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Karl-Storz-Harold Hopkins Golden Telescope Award, The Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, Imperial College London
- 2023 Honorary Member, European Association for Endoscopic Surgery and other Interventional Techniques (EAES)
- 2023 Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury (“RefluxChip – a Miniature, Battery-free Remote Sensing System for Real-Time Monitoring of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease”, International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva
- 2023 Gold Medal (“Self-healing Magnetic Slime Robot for Non-invasive Endoluminal Intervention in the Gastrointestinal System”), International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva
- 2023 Red Dot Award (“EndoR Surgical Robotic System”), Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen
- 2021 International Honorary Member, Japan Society of Endoscopic Surgery (JSES)
- 2021 Outstanding Team Award (Endoscopy Team of Prince of Wales Hospital), Hospital Authority
- 2021 Bronze Medal (“QuickCAS: An easy-to-use analysis system for quick detection of infectious pathogens in clinical samples”), International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva
- 2020 Spirit of Hong Kong Award on Innovation, SCMP and Sino Group, HKSAR
- 2019 Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury (“Endoscopic Surgical Robot”), International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva
- 2016 JGH Emerging Leader Lectureship Award (on “Innovation and Advances in Endoscopic Surgery”), Asia Pacific Digestive Week
- 2016 Leadership Award, Hong Kong Health Awards, Hong Kong SAR
- 2015 Outstanding Contribution Award, Chinese Society of Digestive Endoscopy, China
- 2011 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology) - Second-class Award in Technological Advancement, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
- 2011 Best of Digestive Disease Week - Research paper “Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy for treatment of esophageal motility disorder – from bench to bedside”, United States of America
- 2007 Second-class Award of the State Scientific and Technological Progress Award, People’s Republic of China
- 2001 Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Specialist in General Surgery)
- 2001 Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
- 1998 Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
