# Chak-sing Lau

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## TL;DR

Rheumatologist who is Dean of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, the academic partner of Queen Mary Hospital, and formerly chief of the hospital's Department of Medicine.

## Summary

Professor Chak-sing Lau, BBS, JP, is the forty-first Dean of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong, whose LKS Faculty of Medicine is the teaching and research partner of Queen Mary Hospital, and is also interim Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Health). He holds the Daniel CK Yu Professorship in Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology and previously served as Chairperson of the Department of Medicine, Chief of Service in Medicine at Queen Mary Hospital and President of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. He is regarded as a pioneer of rheumatology in Hong Kong and founded the Hong Kong Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation in 2001.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Tags: leadership; clinician-scientist; academic-medicine
- Role: Dean of Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
- Specialisms: Rheumatology; Clinical immunology; Academic medicine

## Sources

- Source: HKUMed leadership page: https://www.med.hku.hk/en/about-hkumed/leadership

## Connected records

- institutions: [Queen Mary Hospital / University of Hong Kong](https://onco.cc/institutions/queen-mary-hospital-hku/)
- journals: [New England Journal of Medicine](https://onco.cc/journals/nejm/), [The Lancet](https://onco.cc/journals/lancet/)

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