Overcoming Hong Kong’s Healthcare Crisis: Developing a Sustainable Healthcare Model
Day 1 (Fri)
Schedule
2:00 pm
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3:30 pm
Summit stage
Cantonese
Overcoming Hong Kong’s Healthcare Crisis: Developing a Sustainable Healthcare Model
Abstract
Healthcare systems around the world are faced with unprecedented challenges under the pandemic. Hong Kong has a dual public-private healthcare system. However, their disparities are great. Public hospitals provide services to 90% of in-patients in Hong Kong at a heavily subsidised cost. The problems in Hong Kong’s collapsing healthcare system as shown during the pandemic are alarming. At this session, CEOs from private hospitals and the first primary healthcare centre will explore how we can rebuild and recover from the pandemic with a fairer and better healthcare system for the future, including the adoption of smart systems, financing and procurement of services, tele-medicine, the deepening of public‑private partnerships, etc.
Panelist
- Dr Joseph CHAN
Chief Medical Officer, HKSH Medical Group
Deputy Medical Superintendent, HKSH
Head, Department of Women’s Health and Obstetrics, HKSH
Dr Joseph CHAN is the Chief Medical Officer of HKSH Medical Group, the Deputy Medical Superintendent and Head of Department of Women’s Health and Obstetrics of Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital with special responsibilities in the credentialing of medical doctors and dentists, as well as the development of medical education and training in the Hospital. He has been instrumental in establishing HKU medical students teaching programme and postgraduate doctors’ training in the Hospital. He is also the Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at The University of Hong Kong.
He is currently the Committee Member of Quality Assurance Committee and Chairman of Gynaecological Endoscopic Surgery Subcommittee of the Hong Kong College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. The Subcommittee is responsible for the accreditation of Gynaecology Laparoscopic Surgery in Hong Kong.
He is a Fellow of Hong Kong College of Health Service Executives and Australasian College of Health Service Management. He is also an EMBA graduate of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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He is currently the Committee Member of Quality Assurance Committee and Chairman of Gynaecological Endoscopic Surgery Subcommittee of the Hong Kong College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. The Subcommittee is responsible for the accreditation of Gynaecology Laparoscopic Surgery in Hong Kong.
He is a Fellow of Hong Kong College of Health Service Executives and Australasian College of Health Service Management. He is also an EMBA graduate of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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- Dr Hong FUNG, JP
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, CUHK Medical Centre
Dr Hong FUNG is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the CUHK Medical Centre (CUHKMC). CUHKMC is the private teaching hospital wholly owned by The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
Dr FUNG is also Professor of Practice in Health Services Management at the Jockey Club School of Public Health & Primary Care, CUHK, where he teaches health services planning, healthcare innovation and technology management, healthcare financing, communications and marketing, and decision making in the School’s master and leadership programs.
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Dr FUNG is also Professor of Practice in Health Services Management at the Jockey Club School of Public Health & Primary Care, CUHK, where he teaches health services planning, healthcare innovation and technology management, healthcare financing, communications and marketing, and decision making in the School’s master and leadership programs.
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- Dr Kenneth TSANG
Chief Executive Officer, Gleneagles Hospital Hong Kong
Dr Kenneth TSANG provides leadership for Gleneagles Hospital Hong Kong under IHH Healthcare, spearheading strategies for the hospital to provide excellent and innovative healthcare services. Dr Tsang was with the Hospital Authority in Hong Kong for over 25 years, first as a practising physician. In 2009, he also took up administrative roles at the Kowloon Central Cluster and later became a full-time medical administrator at the Hospital Authority Head Office.
Dr Tsang is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Community Medicine), Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine and Fellow of The Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators.
Dr Tsang is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Community Medicine), Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine and Fellow of The Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators.
Facilitator
- Prof Jean WOO
Co-Director, CUHK Institute of Health Equity
Director, the Jockey Club Institute of Aging, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Honorary Consultant, Prince of Wales and Shatin Hospitals, Hospital Authority
Professor Jean WOO graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1974. After medical posts in the Charing Cross, Hammersmith, and Brompton Hospitals in the UK, she worked in part time posts in general practice as well as research at the University of Hong Kong. Currently she is the Co-Director of CUHK Institute of Health Equity, Director of the Jockey Club Institute of Aging at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Consultant of the Prince of Wales and Shatin Hospitals, Hospital Authority. Prof. Woo’s research interests include chronic diseases and geriatric syndromes, health services research, nutrition epidemiology and intervention, quality of life issues at the end of life, with over 900 articles in peer-reviewed indexed journals.