Dr. Fan Ning has served in Hospital Authority for over 20 years. Ning is concerned about the vast gap in end-of-life service in the community and founded “Forget Thee Not” to promote advance directive and home death using the model of life management and empowerment. He is a member of HKCSS Standing Committee on Policy Research and Advocacy as well as HKCSS Specialized Committee on Family and Community Service.

Dr Leung Man Chung Jack, who is now resident doctor of Jockey Club Home for Hospice (JCHH), has been working in palliative and hospice care field for more than 15 years. He had been providing palliative care to terminal ill patients in Bradbury Hospice between 2006-2018 and then has started his new career chapter in JCHH since 2018. He had joined the management team of JCHH in 2019 to transform the home to a high quality hospice with his clinical experience. He is devoted not only in clinical duty to the terminal ill patients but also in promoting hospice care service to the community through different public forums.

Vennus is a senior executive as well as a trainer, with an interdisciplinary focus that spans the fields of gerontology, palliative care, spirituality and expressive arts. She is a Registered Eden Associate of Eden Alternative® and Namaste CareTM International Associate in Hong Kong. She has been providing training and consultancy services in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. As a visual artist, social worker and arts therapist, Vennus is dedicated to integrating arts into life and promoting spirituality and wellness of people. With her leadership, the team is committed to developing spiritual end-of-life care centre which features Namaste Care to deliver high quality end-of-life care services to the persons with terminal illness and families with a spiritual care focus in the long-term care setting.

Professor Joanne Chung, Chair Professor of Nursing & Health Studies, is the Dean of School of Nursing & Health Studies of The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK). Professor Chung is a pain specialist in both research and clinical practice. Professor Chung also practises mindfulness and has extensive experience in the application of mindfulness in pain management and the offer of resilience building programmes. She was the awardee of the Nanshan Scholar Key Talent Scheme (December 2017) and affiliated to Guangzhou Medical University as a Distinguished Professor. Currently she is serving as an advisor/member/director in various government and non-government organizations like the Elderly Care Service Industry Training Advisory Committee of the Education.