Professor CHOK Siu Ho Kenneth    
竺兆豪

Professor
MBBS (HK), MD (HK), MS (HK), MRCSEd, FRCSEd, FCSHK, FHKAM (Surgery)

Hepato-biliary and Pancreatic Surgery
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Biography

Dr. Kenneth Chok graduated from The University of Hong Kong in 1999. He has been a faculty member of the HBP team at Queen Mary Hospital since the conferment of the fellowship in 2007. He was one of the pioneers in advocating Minimally Invasive Hepatobiliary Surgery and Associating Liver Partition and Portal Vein Ligation for Staged Hepatectomy (ALPPS) in the territory.  He also was an expert on the living donor liver transplantation and complex HBP resections. He published more than 220 peer-reviewed articles in high impact journals including Annals of Surgery, British Journal of Surgery, Journal of Hepatology and Hepatology. Owing to his outstanding research and clinical performance, he was awarded Carlos Pellegrini Traveling Fellowship in 2015 from The American College of Surgeons. He obtained two postgraduate research degrees from The University of Hong Kong (Master of Surgery in 2015 and Doctor of Medicine in 2020). Apart from his excellent clinical and research work, he is committed to promoting organ donation in Hong Kong and is now the Co-Opt Council Member of the Hong Kong Society of Transplantation, a Council Member of the Hong Kong Liver Foundation, and Chairman of the Live Liver Donation Committee and a Council Member of the Hong Kong Society of HBP Surgery.

Research Interests

• Downstaging of the hepatocellular carcinoma
• Neoadjuvant treatment and surgical advances on CA pancreas
• Biliary strictures and endoscopic therapy
• Minimally invasive HBP Surgery
• Fatty pancreas and its complications

Additional Information

• Vice President of the Hong Kong Society of HBP Surgery
• Co Opt Council member for the Hong Kong Society of Gastroenterology
• Co Opt Council member for the Hong Kong Society of Transplantation
• Council member of the Hong Kong Liver Foundation and Chairman of the Live Liver Donation Committee
• Associate Editor for Hepatoma Research
• Editorial Board member for the Journal of Clinical Medicine
• Editorial Board member for the Journal of Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology
• Editorial Board member for World Journal of Gastroenterology

Selected Publications

1. Chok KS, Fung JY, Chan SC, et al. Outcomes of living-donor liver transplantation in patients with preoperative type-1 hepatorenal syndrome and acute hepatic decompensation. Liver Transpl. 2012. Jan;18(7):779-85. doi: 10.1002/lt.23401. [Epub ahead of print]
2. Chok KS, Chan SC, Cheung TT, et al. A retrospective study on risk factors associated with failed endoscopic treatment of biliary anastomotic stricture after right-lobe living donor liver transplantation with duct-to-duct anastomosis. Ann Surg. 2014 Apr;259(4):767-72. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318294d0ce.
3. Chok KS, Cheung TT, Lo RC, et al. Pilot study of high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation as a bridging therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma patients wait-listed for liver transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2014 Aug;20(8):912-21. doi: 10.1002/lt.23892. Epub 2014 Jun 24
4. Chok KS, Fung JY, Chan AC, et al. Comparable Short- and Long-term Outcomes in Living Donor and Deceased Donor Liver Transplantations for Patients With Model for End-stage Liver Disease Scores ≥35 in a Hepatitis-B Endemic Area. Ann Surg. 2016 Feb 17. [Epub ahead of print]
5. Fung J, Wong T, Chok K, et al. Oral nucleos(t)ide Analogs Alone After Liver Transplantation in Chronic Hepatitis B with Preexisting rt204 Mutation. Transplantation. 2017 Jul 21. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000001883. [Epub ahead of print]
6. Chok KSH, Chan ACY, Fung JYY, et al. Comparable short- and long-term outcomes in deceased-donor and living-donor liver retransplantation. Hepatol Int. 2017 Sep 21. doi: 10.1007/s12072-017-9821-2. [Epub ahead of print]
7. Ma KW, Chok KS, She BWH, et al. Defining Optimal Surgical Treatment for Recurrent Hepatocellular Carcinoma. -A Propensity Score Matched Analysis. Liver Transpl. 2018 Feb 16. doi: 10.1002/lt.25033. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available.
8. Chan AC, Chok SH, Dai J, et al. Transferability of liver transplantation experience to complex liver resection for locally advanced hepatobiliary malignancy – lessons learnt from three decades of single center experience. Ann Surg. 2020 9 July 2020 (online ahead of print)
9. KP Au, JYY Fung, WC Dai, ACY Chan, CM Lo, KSH Chok. Verifying the Benefits of Radical Treatment in Posttransplant Hepatocellular Carcinoma Oligo‐recurrence: A Propensity Score Analysis. Liver Transplantation 28 (1), 51-64
10. Madhukar S Patel, Hiroto Egawa, Yong Kyong Kwon, Kenneth Siu Ho Chok, 濫et al. ERAS4OLT. org Working Group. The role of the graft to recipient weight ratio on enhanced recovery of the recipient after living donor liver transplantation –A systematic review of the literature and expert recommendfations. Clinical Transplantation, e14630.