Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer, SingHealth, Singapore

Prof Lee, a Public Health physician by training, is currently the Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer, Regional Health System, SingHealth that seeks to enable the population in Eastern Singapore to keep well, get well and live well. He also Chairs the Planning Committee for the upcoming Eastern General and Community Hospitals. He was previously the Chief Executive Officer of Changi General Hospital, a 1000 bed acute teaching hospital. Prior appointments included senior leadership positions in the Ministry of Health Singapore where he was involved in the strategic development and improvement of healthcare services as well as health regulation and finance. Prof Lee is currently a Clinical Professor with the Duke-NUS Medical School and Adjunct Professor in the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, and the Singapore University of Technology and Design. He was also a member of international committees such as International Steering Committee, WHO Collaborating Centre for  Patient Safety; Steering Committee, Asia-Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies; Joint Commission International Standards Advisory Panel. Prof Lee co-edited Singapore’s Health Care System: What 50 Years Have Achieved (2015) and contributed the chapter on Strategies for Health Services in the Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health (6th edition).

Consultant Neurosurgeon, Hospital Authority

Dr Calvin Mak is a consultant neurosurgeon at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong and is the Clinical Associate Professor (Honorary) of the Department of Surgery at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

His main clinical interest is both endoscopic and complex skull base surgery. Dr Mak performed the first endoscopic transorbital surgery for brain tumor in Hong Kong and has organized dissection courses on endoscopic transorbital surgery. He has been invited as faculty and instructor for various international skull base courses and meetings.

Apart from regular publications, he is co-editor of a multidisciplinary skull base textbook, author of book chapters, and serves as editor and reviewer for various journals and currently serves as Vice President of Hong Kong Neurosurgical Society, First Vice-President of Hong Kong Neuro-oncology Society, Executive Board member of the Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons, delegates to Executive Committee of AASNS and WFNS, council member of the China Greater Bay Area Neurosurgical Alliance.

He is passionate about integrating innovative technology into medical services. He is the Cluster Coordinator of Information Technology and Information Systems of Kowloon Central Cluster (KCC), chair of the KCC Innovation Research Committee and KCC Smart Hospital Management Committee. His team developed the first Hospital Command Centre in Hong Kong, which helped the hospitals combat the COVID-19 crisis and pioneered the adoption of 5G technology in clinical application. He also conducted research on artificial intelligence applications in brain imaging, clinical prediction, surgical robots and LLM application in healthcare.

Dr. Calvin Mak was awarded as the Ten Outstanding Young Persons in Hong Kong in 2022 and received Outstanding Team Awards (Team Leader) and Young Achiever Award of the Hospital Authority. He currently also serves on various statutory boards and advisory committees for the HKSAR Government.

Chief Medical Information Officer, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong

Dr. Joanna PANG is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer of the Information Technology and Health Informatics Division at the Hospital Authority (HA), overseeing the development strategies and directions of various clinical IT systems in HA.  As an Emergency Medicine Specialist, Dr. Pang believes clinicians should always uphold a patient-oriented value when delivering patient care professionally. She is responsible for coordinating and developing the technology strategy of the Clinical Management System (CMS), health care digital transformation and innovative technology applications, to support the overall development direction and service planning of the Hospital Authority. She also leads the medical informatics teams to assist the Health Bureau in promoting the Public-Private Electronic Health Record Sharing System (eHRSS) and the development of clinical information system of Department of Health. Through collaborating with clinicians, IT experts, executives and patients, she embraces innovative IT initiatives with data driven approaches to create new and enhanced healthcare service delivery models.

Chief Executive, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong

Dr Tony Ko graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1990. Dr Tony Ko is a physician by background and a specialist in geriatric medicine. He is currently the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority (HA). Dr Ko moved from clinical medicine to health services management in 2008 and served under various management offices in the HA Head Office until the appointment to Hospital Chief Executive of Pok Oi Hospital and Cluster Chief Executive of New Territories West Cluster in 2012 and 2014 respectively. He was then appointed as the Director of Cluster Services in 2018 prior to the appointment to his current position in August 2019. Dr Ko is now leading a workforce of about 90 000, and managing 43 hospitals and institutes to deliver public healthcare services in Hong Kong and serving our citizens.

Secretary for Health, Health Bureau Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Professor Chung-mau Lo was appointed Secretary for Health on 1 July 2022. Before joining the Government, he was Hospital Chief Executive at The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, Chair of Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Surgery at The University of Hong Kong and Director of Liver Transplantation Centre at Queen Mary Hospital.

Professor Lo has devoted himself to clinical work, teaching and scientific research in the field of hepatobiliary surgery for more than three decades. He is internationally renowned for his expertise in hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation. He has published over 600 original articles in refereed international journals and his H-index is 94. His pioneering work in adult right lobe living donor liver transplantation has revolutionised the practice of liver transplant world-wide and has put Hong Kong on the world map of liver transplant. He and his team were awarded China’s top national honour of First-class State Scientific and Technological Progress Award in 2005.

He was the President of the International Liver Transplantation Society and the International Society for Digestive Surgery. He has served in the editorial board of many prestigious journals, including the American Journal of Transplantation, Liver Transplantation, Surgery and the Annals of Surgery. He has been elected as an Honorary Fellow of the American Surgical Association, the American College of Surgeons, and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland as well as an Honorary Member of the European Surgical Association.

Professor Lo served as the Hospital Chief Executive of The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital from November 2016 to June 2022. Under the “One Country, Two Systems” strategy, he has actively leveraged the advantages of Shenzhen-Hong Kong cross-border collaboration to advocate “Green Healthcare Reform ” in public hospitals, and to promote medical integration in the Greater Bay Area. Under his leadership, the Hospital became the youngest High-level Hospital of Guangdong Province in 2018 and received Shenzhen Municipal City Mayor’s Quality Gold Award in 2020. The Hospital has been selected as a National High-Quality Development Hospital in 2021.