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Professor Trevor T. W. WAN

Professor Trevor T. W. WAN

Trevor is an Assistant Professor at HKU Law, where his scholarship interrogates the social foundations of legal medicine. His research employs an interdisciplinary framework, integrating comparative law, political science, and socio-legal methodologies to develop innovative paradigms for analysing coroner’s inquests and the constitutional dimensions of mental health and happiness. Trevor’s work has been published or is forthcoming in leading peer-reviewed journals across law and medicine, including the American Journal of Comparative Law, International Journal of Constitutional Law, German Law Journal, Hong Kong Medical Journal, and the BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics Blog.
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law Co-Director, Bachelor of Social Sciences (Government and Laws) and Bachelor of Laws Programme The University of Hong Kong

Professor Craig PURSHOUSE

Professor Craig PURSHOUSE

Craig is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and Deputy Director and Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests are in medical law and torts and he has published on a diverse range of medical law topics including consent, reproductive negligence, conversion therapy, the medical treatment of children, the protection of autonomy and surrogacy.
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law Deputy Director, Board Member and Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law The University of Hong Kong

Professor Emmanuel H. L. CHEUNG

Professor Emmanuel H. L. CHEUNG

Emmanuel is an intensive care unit (ICU) physician with a special interest in critical care organisation, ICU rehabilitation and end-of-life care. He has worked in a number of trauma centres and teaching hospitals across Hong Kong prior to completing his specialty training in intensive care and returning to his alma mater (HKU) as Clinical Assistant Professor of Practice. He is a passionate advocate of multidisciplinary and humanistic approach to clinical care in the ICU. His current research focuses on geriatric critical care and post-ICU outcomes. He is also a keen supporter of medical ethics and humanities education in the HKU MBBS programme.
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Practice, Critical Care Medicine Unit, School of Clinical Medicine, The University of Hong Kong ("HKU") Honorary Resident, Adult Intensive Care Unit, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, HKU

Dr. Md. Sanwar SIRAJ

Dr. Md. Sanwar SIRAJ

Sanwar is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law of the Faculty of Law and the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine and is hosted by the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit at the School of Clinical Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from the City University of Hong Kong, focusing on medical law and ethics, particularly in living organ donation for transplantation. Sanwar also completed Post-Doctoral training in Switzerland, focusing on issues related to organ donation decisions and medical decision-making. He is specialized in empirical bioethics (in-depth interviews and observations), alongside training in normative/ethical analysis. His current scholarship focuses primarily on organ donation decisions and decision making for patients with critical/end-of-life care. Sanwar also has a broad vision of getting involved in teaching health law and ethics to, among others, medical students and healthcare professionals.
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Post-doctoral Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law & Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Yuechan SONG

Dr. Yuechan SONG

Yuechan earned her doctoral degree from the University of Hong Kong. Prior to this, she obtained her LLB and MPhil in Criminal Jurisprudence from Beijing Normal University. With a strong research interest in pharmaceutical administration, the medical insurance system, and hospital management policies in China, she is dedicated to utilizing empirical research methods, particularly interviews, to explore the interaction between law and society. Her doctoral thesis focused on the regulatory compliance of retail pharmacies in China, uncovering the impact of institutional and cultural factors on corporate behavior. Currently, she is developing an interest in the law and ethics surrounding emerging health technologies.
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Research Fellow & Formerly Post-doctoral Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, The University of Hong Kong

Professor Edward LUI

Professor Edward LUI

Edward’s research examines administrative law and public law-related themes in healthcare law. He has completed the LLB and PCLL programmes at the University of Hong Kong, and also the BCL programme at the University of Oxford. His existing research has been published in a number of academic journals – including the Law Quarterly Review, Medical Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Public Law.
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Assistant Professor, HKU Faculty of Law Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law The University of Hong Kong

Dr. James Shing-ping CHIU

Dr. James Shing-ping CHIU

James has dual qualification in medical and legal fields. He is a medical graduate of HKU and a Specialist in General Surgery. He also possesses LLB (Hons) degree from the University of London. James has been active in both the medical and the legal circles for many years. His research areas include medicolegal, expert witnesses, healthcare law, healthcare ethics, apologies, apology legislation, negotiation and mediation. He is also interested in disciplinary proceedings and regulators.
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Hon Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, The University of Hong Kong ("HKU") Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, HKU Co-Chairman, Professionalism and Ethics Committee, The Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Invited member, International Network for Law and Apology Research (INLAR)

Professor Albert LEE

Professor Albert LEE

Albert received Medical Degree (MB BS-UCL-Middlesex Hospital) and Law Degree (LLB) from University of London in 1984 and 2015 respectively with higher academic and/or professional qualifications in Family Medicine, Public Health, Legal Medicine, Law, Arbitration, Mediation, and Education. He is admitted as lawyer by NSW Supreme Court, Australia in March 2021, and Barrister and Solicitor by New Zealand High Court in July 2022. Albert has published over 260 papers in peer-reviewed journals and editor of two books in primary healthcare, one book on “Healthy Setting Approach” and one book on “Healthcare Law and Ethics”.
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Emeritus Professor, Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Honorary Professor, Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine, The University of Hong Kong ("HKU") Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, HKU Adjunct Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Science, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Board Governor, and member of Education Committee, World Association for Medical Law (WAML)

Dr. Ria SINHA

Dr. Ria SINHA

Ria is a Lecturer in the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit at the University of Hong Kong where she coordinates History of Medicine teaching and learning. Her research and teaching at HKU is interdisciplinary and considers the complex and dynamic sociocultural, ecological, historical, technological, and medico-scientific determinants of infectious disease emergence and management. She is currently curating the Covid-19 Archive Project to document the coronavirus pandemic, and is completing a book on the History of Malaria in Hong Kong.
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Lecturer, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Olivia M. Y. NGAN

Dr. Olivia M. Y. NGAN

Olivia has a research interest in reproductive health, public health genomics, rare diseases, and empirical bioethics. Her primary work explores ethical issues in the translational application of emerging technologies in genomic medicine and healthcare services, including reproductive technologies, prenatal screening and diagnosis, and newborn screening. She is also interested in examining how the pandemic exacerbates health issues among vulnerable populations.
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Research Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Zohar LEDERMAN

Dr. Zohar LEDERMAN

Zohar is an emergency medicine physician with a PhD in bioethics from the National University of Singapore and formal undergraduate training in the humanities with a focus on philosophy. He is currently Clinical Practitioner in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. Whenever not hiking or running, Zohar researches several topics in bioethics including loneliness and One Health Ethics. His work has been published in the top bioethics journals including the Journal of Medical Ethics, Bioethics, and Public Health Ethics.
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Clinical Practitioner, Department of Emergency Medicine Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law The University of Hong Kong

Professor Carl HILDEBRAND

Professor Carl HILDEBRAND

Carl’s research engages questions at the intersection of ethics, moral psychology, and the history of philosophy. His current work focuses on sympathy and moral character in Kantian ethics. He also writes on the philosophy of forgiveness and recently developed a new course on the ethics of human relationships, as viewed through different scales and cross-cultural perspectives.
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Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law The University of Hong Kong

Professor Alex K. GEARIN

Professor Alex K. GEARIN

Alex is an Australian medical anthropologist who has researched psychedelic substance using networks and practices across the globe. He has published ethnographic research on the intercultural ethics of medical tourism, metaphor and therapeutic literacies in psychedelic medicine, and spirituality and individualism among psychedelic healing groups. His book Global Ayahuasca: Wondrous Visions and Modern Worlds (Stanford University Press, 2024) explores the psychoactive plant brew “ayahuasca” in Peru, Australia, and China. His work is featured in Current Anthropology, Social Science and Medicine, Frontiers in Pharmacology, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and other outlets, and he is co-editor of The World Ayahuasca Diaspora: Controversies and Reinventions (Routledge, 2017).
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Deputy Director and Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law The University of Hong Kong

Professor Haochen SUN

Professor Haochen SUN

Haochen specializes in intellectual property, technology law, and Chinese law. Currently, he is working on a book Intellectual Property, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
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Professor, Faculty of Law Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Michael DUNN

Dr. Michael DUNN

Michael’s research focuses primarily on the ethical dimensions of community-based and long-term health and social care management, practice and law both in the UK and internationally. The other main area of his current work examines questions about the nature of bioethics, the value of empirical ethics research, and methodological strategies for answering bioethical questions.

Associate Professor, National University of Singapore Visiting Faculty, LLM (Medical Ethics and Law), HKU (Academic Years 2019-20, 2020-21 & 2021-22), The University of Hong Kong ("HKU") Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Law, HKU

Professor James BADENOCH KC

Professor James BADENOCH KC

James is an eminent UK Queen's Counsel who has specialized for over 35 years in clinical negligence, medical law, and professional discipline. He has appeared in a succession of major cases in the UK Supreme Court, the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the Court of Appeal, the High Court, the GMC and the GDC as well as the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and the Hong Kong High Court.

Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law Visiting Faculty, LLM (Medical Ethics and Law) (Academic Years 2019-20, 2020-21 & 2021-22) The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Chih-hsing HO

Dr. Chih-hsing HO

Chih-hsing (PhD, London School of Economics) is an Associate Professor/ Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies and the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation (joint appointment), Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She leads research and interdisciplinary collaborations on the governance of genomics and newly emerging technologies, such as biobanks, big data and artificial intelligence (AI). She has been appointed to the Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare’s Biobank Ethics and Governance Council and the Review Board for Biobank Accreditation. She has also been appointed as a Member at the National Health Insurance Data Access Committee, and the Consultation and review Board at the National Biobank Consortium of Taiwan. Her works appear in many renowned international journals, such as Nature Genetics, BMC Medical Ethics, Frontiers in Genetics, Computer Law & Security Review, Medical Law International, the Journal of Law, Information and Science, Asian Bioethics Review. Since 2016, she has served as review editor for the Editorial Board of ELSI in Science and Genetics- Frontiers.
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Research Fellow (present) & Research Officer (From 28 Jan 2013 to 17 April 2014), Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, The University of Hong Kong Associate Research Fellow/ Associate Professor, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Associate Research Fellow, Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (Joint appointment)


Professor Eric C. IP

Professor Eric C. IP

Eric is a public health bioethicist and Co-Director of the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), where he is Professor of Law. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Socio-Legal Studies from the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and a Master of Bioethics from the Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, among other academic degrees. He has been awarded the Outstanding Young Researcher Award, University Research Output Prize, and Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award by HKU, and the Research Excellence Award and Young Researcher Award by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he served as Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Director of the LLB Programme.
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Public Health Bioethicist Professor, HKU Faculty of Law Co-Director, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law Teaching Faculty, Research Fellow, and Board Member, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law Leader of the HKU LLM Medical Ethics and Law (MEL) Specialisation The University of Hong Kong

Dr. Calvin Wai-Loon HO

Dr. Calvin Wai-Loon HO

Calvin's research focuses on policy and regulatory responses to the normative and social impact of novel health and biotechnologies. His research also includes medical law and ethics, health systems (particularly normative aspects of health insurance and access to healthcare) and global health.
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Associate Professor, Monash Law School, Monash University Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, The University of Hong Kong

Ms Daisy CHEUNG

Ms Daisy CHEUNG

Daisy is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law at the University of Hong Kong. Her current research focuses on issues in mental health and capacity law and ethics. Other research areas include surrogacy and issues at the end-of-life, in particular advance medical directives.
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Lecturer in Medical Law and Ethics, School of Law, University of Edinburgh Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, The University of Hong Kong

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