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Dr Derrick Kit Sing AU (Speaker)

MD (Brown U), LMCHK, FHKCP, FHKAM

Dr Derrick Au is Clinical Professional Consultant (Honorary), Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Advisor and former Director of the CUHK Centre for Bioethics. He received medical education at Brown University in the US and postgraduate training in geriatric medicine in Hong Kong. Before joining CUHK in 2017, Dr. Au served in clinical service in geriatrics and rehabilitation then health service management positions in the Hospital Authority (HA), including Director of Quality & Safety (2014-16), the portfolio of which included overseeing clinical ethics and research ethics. Dr. Au is former chairman of the HA Clinical Ethics Committee (2017 to 2020) and current Convenor of the Ethics Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Genome Institute.

Dr Au teaches medical ethics and bioethics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in various Hospital Authority training events, as well as invited lectures on elderly care and end-of-life care in community. He has contributed to content design of the CUHK Bioethics Curriculum for medical undergraduates, and the ethics module of CUHK Master of Health Services Management. Dr. Au is also a writer and columnist with books published on bioethics, professional ethics, and history of medicine.

Dr David Lok Kwan DAI (Speaker)

MBBS(HK), FRCP, FHKCP, FHKAM, Specialist in Geriatric Medicine, LLB (Hons.), JP

During his 45-year career in the medical profession, Dr Dai has specialised in geriatric, rehabilitation and pulmonary medicine.  Dr Dai was a member of several Hong Kong Government Labour and Welfare Bureau steering committees and working groups studying issues relating to community care and residential care services for elders. After accreditation as a mediator in 2010, Dr Dai pioneered the application of mediation skills in handling medical complaints. He sat on the committee of the Department of Justice for the enactment of the Apology Act in 2013. He chaired the Independent Committee for Handling Complaints of the Social Welfare Department from 2015 to 2021. In 2012, Dr Dai was appointed Justice of the Peace, and in 2021, was awarded the Medal of Honour by the Chief Executive of the HKSAR. Before retirement from the Hospital Authority, Dr Dai was a consultant geriatrician at Prince of Wales Hospital and led the complaint management unit.

Since retiring from the Hospital Authority in December 2015, Dr Dai has been in private practice in Geriatric Medicine and continues extracurricular learning in painting. He is now Vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Alzheimer’s Disease Association. He contributed to the cases and concepts behind the book Casebook of Dementia: A Reference Guide for Primary Care. Cambridge University Press; 2024.

Dr Mandy Pui Man FUNG (Speaker)

MBChB(CUHK), MRCP(UK), FHKCP, FHKAM(Medicine), Specialist in Geriatric Medicine

Dr Fung, as Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of the University of Hong Kong and of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, has taught geriatric medicine for both postgraduates (Postgraduate Diploma in Community Geriatrics, 2003-2014) and undergraduates with favourable feedback.

MBBS (HK), MRCP(UK), FRCP (London, Edin, Glasg), FHKCP, FHKAM (Medicine), Specialist in Geriatric Medicine

 Tak Kwan graduated with MBBS from the University of Hong Kong in 1980. After serving one year of psychiatry in Castle Peak Hospital in 1982, he joined the Department of Geriatrics of Princess Margaret Hospital in 1983, became consultant geriatrician there in 1992 till 2016, when he was reemployed for two more years after retirement as consultant geriatrician in the Department of Medicine & Therapeutics of Prince of Wales Hospital. Since 2018, he has been working as part-time private geriatrician.

In 1988, he was awarded the Commonwealth Medical Fellowship for one year of training in geriatric medicine in the Department of Geriatric Medicine, University Hospital of South Manchester, UK, under Professor John Brocklehurst. He became a Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Physicians in 1991, of the Academy of Medicine (Medicine) in 1993, of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1995, of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1999 and of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1999.

Tak Kwan is passionate in teaching. From 1995 to present, he has been Honorary Clinical Associate Professor for both the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) for teaching undergraduates and postgraduates on geriatric medicine, internal medicine, family medicine, community geriatrics, gerontology, geriatric orthopaedics, communication skills and medical ethics & humanities. He has served as Examiner and Board Member, Board of Studies for the HKU Postgraduate Diploma in Community Geriatrics from 2000 to 2016. He has been Examiner, Diploma in Geriatric Medicine, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 2004 to 2014. From 2021 to present, he has been an External Examiner for the Certificate Programme in Health Planning for Positive Ageing at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, CUHK.

Tak Kwan was President of The Hong Kong Geriatrics Society from 2002 to 2006. He was Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the Hong Kong Geriatrics Society (1993-1998); Chief Editor of The Hong Kong Geriatrics Society Curriculum in Geriatric Medicine (first edition 2005, second edition 2017); Editorial Board Member of CME Journal Geriatric Medicine (2003 – 2014) and Journal of Geriatric Cardiology (2004-2008). From 2018 to present, he has been Associate Editor of Ageing Medicine. His research interests include geriatric medicine (history, education, services), stroke, infectious disease, incontinence, dementia, musculoskeletal disorders, falls, iatrogenesis and polypharmacy, medical ethics and humanities. His research work can be viewed at: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4340-7479 

 Dr Jamie Sau Ying LAU (Speaker)

PT, MSc(CUHK), DHSC (UWE)

Dr. Tong is a consultant geriatrician at a local regional public hospital. After retirement, he was re-employed by the Hospital Authority in January 2024 and is now focusing his practice on frontline outreach community geriatrics services. Before his retirement in December 2023, he was the Cluster Coordinator (Community Care) and Chairman of the Clinical Ethics Committee in Kowloon West Cluster, Hospital Authority. Currently, he has also been appointed Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at Department of Medicine as well as Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care in Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong. He has also taken up the appointment of Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at Department of Medicine and Therapeutics of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In addition, he serves as Honorary Treasurer of the Hong Kong Continence Society, Council Member of the Hong Kong Association of Gerontology, and Co-convenor of the Education and Training Committee of Hong Kong Institute of Gerontology under Hong Kong Association of Gerontology. Moreover, he holds positions as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Society for the Aged. He has been serving on the Guardianship Board, HKSAR, for 6 years and is scheduled to retire from the post in February 2026.

Apart from his commitments within the medical and gerontological professions, Dr. Tong holds a couple of Master Degrees within Counselling (MSocSc) and Family Therapy (MASW) fields, with the latter programme graduated with distinction and with his name on the Dean’s Honour List 2010/2011 at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is currently an Associate Fellow at Hong Kong Professional Counselling Association, Full (Life) Member in Asian Academy of Family Therapy Limited as well as an Associate Member in Hong Kong Marriage and Family Therapist Association Limited. 

Dr. Tong has strong personal interests in continence care, community geriatrics and counselling of older persons with chronic diseases within the family context. In the area of Continence Care, he has been running the Continence Clinic at his hospital for three decades. His affiliation with Hong Kong Continence Society has given him opportunities to contribute to continence education and promotion of continence awareness among healthcare professionals and the public.