Dr Diana Dan WU

Lecturer (joint appointment with the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit)
Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care

• BSc (Canada), MD (Canada), CCFP (Canada), PGDip (Clinical Dermatology)

dianadwu@hku.hk

Diana graduated from the University of Toronto, Canada with an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Human Biology: Genes, Genetics, and Biotechnology. She went on to obtain her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Toronto and completed a Family Medicine Residency at the Toronto East General Hospital (now know as Michael Garron Hospital) in Toronto, ultimately becoming a certificate of the College of Family Physicians of Canada upon completing her residency. She spent the next three years commuting back between London UK and Toronto Canada doing a mixture of locum placements and telemedicine. Her areas of interest include telemedicine, digitalization of healthcare, dermatology, and medical teaching.

She joined the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care at HKU as an Honorary Associate in 2020 and then as a Clinical Associate in 2021. Diana currently holds a joint appointment as Lecturer in the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care and the School of Clinical Medicine Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit. 

In addition to actively teaching across all 6 years of the MBBS curriculum, she co-coordinates the Family Medicine and Community Care (FMCC) Specialty Clerkship and the Professionalism in Practice I (PIP1) program, and serve as coordinator of the FMPC PBL program. As a researcher, she is interested in medical education and chronic-disease management primary care.