Tuesday 27 August | 08:45-09:10

To start the conference, we will hear from:

• Welcome to the International Forum from Maureen Bisognano, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)


• Welcome to Hong Kong from Siu-Fai Lui The Chinese University of Hong Kong and The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Hong Kong


• The opening address follows from 09:00 from Dr Libby Lee, Under-Secretary for Health, Health Bureau Hong Kong

Under-Secretary for Health, Health Bureau Hong Kong

Dr. LEE is the Undersecretary of Health Bureau, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region since July 2022. She was the Director of the Strategy and Planning Division at the Hospital Authority administration before the current position. The Hospital Authority provides public healthcare services to the 7 million Hong Kong population through 27,000 beds in 43 public hospitals. The scope of her works includes strategy, service, capital and annual planning for the whole Hospital Authority. The current projects include the Hong Kong Children’s Hospital, Queen Mary Hospital, United Christian Hospital, Kwong Wah Hospital, and the Hospital at Kai Tak etc.

She is trained as anaesthesiologist in Queen Mary Hospital focusing on liver transplantation, pain management, electronic anaesthetic record system and simulation training. In 2008, she started her career in administration, first in Patient Safety and Risk Management as the Head of the Patient Safety and Risk Management Department in the Hospital Authority administration. The Department identifies clinical risks through incident management and the annual risk registration exercises, through which corporate strategies and risk reduction programmes are formulated, and quality improvement programmes in individual hospitals and clusters are facilitated and monitored. She then works in the Division of Strategy and Planning for public healthcare services development since 2011. In 2015, she also takes up the position of Deputizing Hospital Chief Executive of the Buddhist Hospital, overseeing the operations of the hospital as well as its refurbishment works.

Singapore

Speaker bio coming soon.

 

Chairman, Patients for Patient Safety, Malaysia

Manvir Victor is a kidney disease patient and received a kidney transplant in 2012. Manvir is the WHO chairman for patient safety in Malaysia, a member of the National Patient Safety Council and part of the British Medical Journal international patient panel as well as a member of the Patient Liaison Advisory Group of the ISN. He also hosts “Healthcare today with Manvir Victor, a podcast that reaches 15 countries. He’s available on X @manvirvictor.

Monday 26 August | 16:00-17:00

Format: Networking

Stream: n/a

We will have a selection of meet ups that you can join. The will give you the opportunity to connect with your colleagues following today’s workshops and look ahead to the next two days.

Further details about the meet ups will be announced shortly.

Associate Consultant, Grantham Hospital, Hong Kong

Dr. Wong Chi Yan is an associate consultant at the Palliative Care Unit at Grantham Hospital in Hong Kong. She is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong. She completed fellowship exams in medical oncology, palliative medicine, and advanced internal medicine. With her past expertise and experience, her special interest lies in providing palliative care services to oncology patients and patients with disabilities. She is also the doctor representative for the “Embracing the Setting Sun” project, a collaborative effort with the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Jockey Club Rehabilitation Complex. This initiative aims to provide specialized palliative care services to patients with disabilities, ensuring compassionate and holistic support during their end-of-life journey.

President, Zhongshan Opthalmology Center, China

Prof. Haotian Lin is the Director, Professor, Primary Investigator, PhD mentor of Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center and Professor, PhD mentor of School of Biomedical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University. He is the Director of Department of Genetics and biological informatics, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yatsen University.

He is currently the Director of Asia Office of Afro-Asian Council of Ophthalmology (AACO-AO), the Deputy Chairman of Intelligent Medical Special Committee of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), the Executive Vice President and Secretary of Guangdong Association of Young scientists. Prof. Lin was awarded as the “the 24th China Youth May Fourth Medal”, the winner of “2021 Wu Wenjun Science and Technology Award for Artificial Intelligence”, picked as the “National Youth and Middle-aged Technological Innovation Leaders”.

He is the Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program of China, working on the medical big data, research and development of intelligent diagnosis and treatment technology, and its application in eye diseases. He led over 10 projects like Major Research Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has edited 4 books as the editor-in-chief, co-written 6 monographs and published more than 150 SCI papers as the first or the corresponding author, including Nature, Science, Lancet, BMJ, Nature Medicine, Nature Biomedical Engineering, PLoS Medicine, Lancet Discovery Science, etc. He also developed a number of medical equipment and software that successfully applied to clinic. He owned more than 30 patents from China and other countries.

 

 

HAHO, Hong Kong

Speaker bio to follow.

President, HKANM, Hong Kong

Professor Fung has extensive experience in clinical practice, education and management of nursing. She has been the Chief Manager (Nursing) of Hospital Authority (HA) taking charge of more than 20,000 nurses. She was awarded the prestigious Florence Nightingale Medal in 2005 by the International Red Cross for her commitment and contribution to nursing services and mankind. She is currently a member of the Complaint Committee of the Private Healthcare Facilities and also a member of the Public Complaint Committee of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority.

HK Nursing Council, Hong Kong

Speaker bio to follow.