Leadership

Philip Chiu is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Professor of Robotic Surgery, Professor of Division of Upper GI and Metabolic Surgery, Director of Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center, and Director of Endoscopy Center and Institute of Digestive Disease of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a member of the Steering Committee of Health and Medical Innovation Development of the Health Bureau of HKSAR Government, and served as the President of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia (ELSA) from 2021-2023.

Prof. Chiu graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1994 with two scholarships. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (General Surgery), Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in 2001, and received his Doctor of Medicine from CUHK in 2009. Prof. Chiu was the first to perform endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for treatment of early GI cancers in Hong Kong in 2004. In 2010, he performed the first Per-oral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) in Hong Kong. He pioneered the world’s first robotic gastric ESD in 2011, followed by the world’s first robotic colorectal ESD in 2020. His research interests include esophageal cancer management, minimally invasive and robotic esophagectomy, novel endoscopic technologies for diagnosis of early GI cancers, endoscopic surgery as well as robotics for endoluminal surgery. He has published near 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 6 book chapters, and is currently a co-editor of Endoscopy. He has received numerous prestigious awards including State Scientific Technology and Progress Award from the People’s Republic of China in 2007, and 2nd class award in Technological Advancement, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China 2011. His research on POEM was awarded best of DDW 2011 and first prize of ASGE World Cup of Endoscopy 2012. He was awarded the Asia Pacific Digestive Week JGHF Emerging Leader Lectureship and named a Global Outstanding Chinese Youth in 2016. He received two Gold Medals with Congratulations of Jury at the International Exhibitions of Inventions of Geneva (2019, 2023) and the Spirit of Hong Kong Award on Innovation in 2020. In 2023, he was bestowed Honorary Membership of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery and the Karl-Storz-Harold Hopkins Golden Telescope Award at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics by Imperial College London.