SPEAKER HIGHLIGHTS

Dr. LEE Yuk Tong

Honorary Clinical Associate Professor 
Department of Medicine and Therapeutics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr. Lee graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1990. He started his specialty training in Endoscopy, Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the Prince of Wales Hospital under Professor Joseph Sung. Dr. Lee had been working as the director of the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Centre, and director of the Endoscopy and Endosonography Centre of the Baptist Hospital. He is currently honorary consultants of the Prince of Wales Hospital, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong Adventist Hospital, Hong Kong St. Paul’s Hospital, and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of CUHK. He is also the founding president of the Hong Kong Society of Endosonography.

Dr. Lee’s interests focus mainly on advanced endoscopy and endoscopic ultrasound. He is one of the few endoscopists being trained in EUS in Hong Kong since 1996. He obtained his Doctorate in Medicine based on his work on EUS on portal hypertension in 2001. In 2007, Dr. Lee, together with the research team in CUHK, had been awarded State Scientific and Technological Progress Award for their excellent researches in the topic of “Non-surgical treatments of peptic ulcer bleeding”. Dr. Lee had been invited to give lectures and demonstrations in various EUS and endoscopy workshops and symposiums locally and internationally. Dr. Lee has published 7 book chapters, authored and co-authored more than 60 journal articles.


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