Professor Philip Chiu is 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, Institute of Digestive Disease of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Prof Chiu is a pioneer in minimally invasive procedures, having performed Hong Kong’s first endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for the treatment of early gastrointestinal cancers in 2004, as well as the world’s first robotic gastric ESD and colorectal ESD in 2011 and 2020 respectively. Prof Chiu has received numerous prestigious honours and awards, including the State Scientific Technology and Progress Award from People’s Republic of China, Gold Medals with Congratulations of Jury at the International Exhibitions of Inventions of Geneva, and an elected Member of the Academia Europea.
