Professor CHIU Wai Yan Philip    
趙偉仁

Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Professor of Robotic Surgery
MBChB (CUHK), MD (CUHK), FRCSEd (Gen), FCSHK, FHKAM (Surgery)

Upper Gastrointestinal and Metabolic Surgery
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Biography

Philip Chiu is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Professor of Robotic Surgery, Director of Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center, Director of Endoscopy Center, Institute of Digestive Disease of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also serves as Director of Endoscopy of Prince of Wales Hospital and the New Territories East Cluster (NTEC); Cluster Chief of Division of Upper GI and Metabolic Surgery of NTEC, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong. He is a member of the Steering Committee of Health and Medical Innovation Development of the Health Bureau of HKSAR Government, a member of Hospital Authority Board, and served as the President of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia (ELSA) from 2021-2023.

Prof. Chiu graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1994 with two scholarships. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (General Surgery), Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in 2001, and received his Doctor of Medicine from CUHK in 2009. Prof. Chiu was the first to perform endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for treatment of early GI cancers in Hong Kong in 2004. In 2010, he performed the first Per-oral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) in Hong Kong. He pioneered the world’s first robotic gastric ESD in 2011, followed by the world’s first robotic colorectal ESD in 2020. His research interests include esophageal cancer management, minimally invasive and robotic esophagectomy, novel endoscopic technologies for diagnosis of early GI cancers, endoscopic surgery as well as robotics for endoluminal surgery. He has published near 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 6 book chapters, and is currently a co-editor of Endoscopy. He has received numerous prestigious awards including State Scientific Technology and Progress Award from the People's Republic of China in 2007, and 2nd class award in Technological Advancement, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China 2011. His research on POEM was awarded best of DDW 2011 and first prize of ASGE World Cup of Endoscopy 2012. He was awarded the Asia Pacific Digestive Week JGHF Emerging Leader Lectureship and named a Global Outstanding Chinese Youth in 2016. He received two Gold Medals with Congratulations of Jury at the International Exhibitions of Inventions of Geneva (2019, 2023) and the Spirit of Hong Kong Award on Innovation in 2020. In 2023, he was bestowed Honorary Membership of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery and the Karl-Storz-Harold Hopkins Golden Telescope Award at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics by Imperial College London.

Research Interests

• Esophageal cancer and minimally invasive and robotic esophagectomy
• Novel endoscopic technologies for diagnosis of early GI cancers
• ESD and novel endoscopic procedures
• Natural Orifices Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES)
• Robotics in endoluminal surgery

Additional Information

CUHK Service:

• Dean, Faculty of Medicine
• Director, Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center
• Director, Chow Yuk Ho Technology Center for Innovative Medicine
• Director, Lui Che Woo Institute of Innovative Medicine

External Service:

• Steering Committee Member, Health and Medical Innovation Development, Health Bureau
• Member, Research Projects Assessment Panel, Innovation and Technology Fund, Innovation and Technology Commission, HKSAR Government
• Member, Institute for Translational Research Incu-Bio Assessment Panel, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
• Cluster Service Team Head in Upper Gastrointestinal and Metabolic Surgery, New Territories East Cluster, Hospital Authority
• Cluster Director of Endoscopy, New Territory East Cluster, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong
• Director of Endoscopy, Prince of Wales Hospital, New Territory East Cluster, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong
• President, Hong Kong Society of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons (HKSUGIS)
• President, Hong Kong Society of Minimal Access Surgery (HKSMAS)
• President of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia (ELSA) (2021-2023)
• Chairman of Surgical Endoscopy, World Endoscopy Organization (WEO) (2020-2024)
• Co-Editor of Endoscopy

Awards and Honours:

• Karl-Storz-Harold Hopkins Golden Telescope Award, The Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, Imperial College London, 2023
• Honorary Member, European Association for Endoscopic Surgery and other Interventional Techniques (EAES), 2023
• Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury, Gold Medal and 2 Silver Medals, International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, 2023
• International Honorary Member, Japan Society of Endoscopic Surgery (JSES), 2021
• Outstanding Team Award (PWH Endoscopy), Hospital Authority, Hong Kong, 2021
• Bronze Medal, International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, 2021
• Spirit of Hong Kong Award on Innovation, 2020
• Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury, 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, 2019
• JGH Emerging Leader Lectureship Award, Asia Pacific Digestive Week, 2016
• Global Chinese Outstanding Youth Award, 2016
• Outstanding contribution award, Chinese Society of Digestive Endoscopy, 2015
• Champion of the World Cup of Endoscopy, American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 2012
• Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Science and Technology) - Second-class Award in Technological Advancement, Ministry of Education of PRC, 2011
• Research abstract awarded Best of Digestive Disease Week, United States, 2011
• State Scientific & Technological Progress Award, State Council of PRC, 2007

Selected Publications

1. *Chiu PWY, Yip HC, Chu S, Chan SM, Lau HSL, Tang RS, Phee SJ, Ho KY, Ng SSM. Prospective single-arm trial on feasibility and safety of endoscopic robotic system for colonic endoscopic submucosal dissection. Endoscopy. 2024 Sep 6. doi: 10.1055/a-2411-0892. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39242090.
2. *Cao J, Yip HC, Chen Y, Scheppach M, Luo X, Yang H, Cheng MK, Long Y, *Jin Y, *Chiu PW, *Yam Y, *Meng HM, *Dou Q. Intelligent surgical workflow recognition for endoscopic submucosal dissection with real-time animal study. Nat Commun. 2023 Oct 21;14(1):6676. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-42451-8. PMID: 37865629; PMCID: PMC10590425.
3. *Chan SM, Ma TW, Chong MK, Chan DL, Ng EKW, Chiu PWY. A Proof of Concept Study: Esophagogastroduodenoscopy Is an Aerosol-Generating Procedure and Continuous Oral Suction During the Procedure Reduces the Amount of Aerosol Generated. Gastroenterology. 2020 Nov;159(5):1949-195e4.
4. Xu X, Xia X, Zhang K, Rai A, Li Z, Zhao P, Wei K, Zou L, Yang B, Wong WK, *Chiu PW, Bian L. Bioadhesive hydrogels demonstrating pH-independent and ultrafast gelation promote gastric ulcer healing in pigs. Sci Transl Med. 2020 Aug 26;12(558):eaba8014.
5. Xia X, Chan KF, Wong GTY, Wang P, Liu L, Yeung BPM, Ng EKW, Lau JYW, *Chiu PWY. Mesenchymal Stem Cells Promote Healing of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug-Related Peptic Ulcer Through Paracrine Actions in Pigs. Sci Transl Med. 2019 Oct 30;11(516):eaat7455.
6. *Chiu PWY, Ng SC, Inoue H, Reddy DN, Ling Hu E, Cho JY, Ho LK, Hewett DG, Chiu HM, Rerknimitr R, Wang HP, Ho SH, Seo DW, Goh KL, Tajiri H, Kitano S, Chan FKL. Practice of endoscopy during COVID-19 pandemic: position statements of the Asian Pacific Society for Digestive Endoscopy (APSDE-COVID statements). Gut. 2020 Jun;69(6):991-996. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-321185.
7. *Chiu PWY, Uedo N, Singh R, Gotoda T, Ng EKW, Yao K, Ang TL, Ho SH, Kikuchi D, Yao F, Pittayanon R, Goda K, Lau JYW, Tajiri H, Inoue H. An Asian consensus on standards of diagnostic upper endoscopy for neoplasia. Gut. 2019 Feb;68(2):186-197. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2018-317111.
8. *Chiu PWY, Yip HC, Teoh AYB, Wong VWY, Chan SM, Wong SKH, Ng EKW. Per oral endoscopic tumor (POET) resection for treatment of upper gastrointestinal subepithelial tumors. Surg Endosc. 2019 Apr;33(4):1326-1333.
9. *Chiu PWY, Yip HC, Xia XF, Chan SM, Ng EKW, Lau JYW. How I do it: Flexible 3-D endoscope for endoscopic submucosal dissection. Dig Endosc. 2019 May;31(3):323-328.
10. Takeshita N, Ho KY, Phee SJ, *Chiu PW. Feasibility of performing esophageal endoscopic submucosal dissection using master and slave transluminal endoscopic robot. Endoscopy 2017; Feb; 49(S01):E27-28.