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Prof. Philip Wai Yan, CHIU, JP      

MBChB(CUHK), MD(CUHK), FRCSEd(Gen), FCSHK, FHKAM (Surgery)

Dean, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professor Philip Chiu is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Professor of Robotic Surgery, Director of Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center, and Director of Endoscopy Center, Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He also serves as Director of Endoscopy of Prince of Wales Hospital and the New Territories East Cluster.

A CUHK medical graduate (1994), he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (General Surgery) and the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in 2001, and received his Doctor of Medicine from CUHK in 2009.

A pioneer of minimally invasive and robotic surgery, Prof. Chiu performed Hong Kong's first endoscopic submucosal dissection (2004) and the world's first robotic gastric (2011) and colorectal (2020) ESD. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts with an H-index of 74. His accolades include the Asia Pacific Digestive Week JGHF Emerging Leader Lectureship (2016), Global Outstanding Chinese Youth (2016), two Gold Medals with the Congratulations of Jury at the International Exhibitions of Inventions of Geneva (2019, 2023), Honorary Member of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery (2023) and Foreign Member of Academia Europaea (2025).