Rate My Professor Philip Chiu

Professor Philip Chiu is the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and holds the position of Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Professor of Robotic Surgery. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at CUHK in 1994 with two scholarships, became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (General Surgery) and the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in 2001, and received his Doctor of Medicine from CUHK in 2009. Professor Chiu serves as Director of the Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center, Director of the Chow Yuk Ho Technology Centre for Innovative Medicine, Director of the Endoscopy Center at the Institute of Digestive Disease, and holds additional clinical leadership roles including Director of Endoscopy at Prince of Wales Hospital and Cluster Chief of the Division of Upper GI and Metabolic Surgery at the New Territories East Cluster of the Hospital Authority.

His expertise encompasses upper gastrointestinal surgery, minimally invasive and robotic surgery, and endoscopic surgery, with research interests focused on early diagnosis and treatment of upper GI cancers, endoscopic submucosal dissection, peroral endoscopic myotomy, and robotic applications in endoluminal procedures. He was the first to perform endoscopic submucosal dissection for early GI cancers in Hong Kong in 2004 and the first peroral endoscopic myotomy in 2010, and he pioneered the world’s first robotic gastric ESD in 2011 and robotic colorectal ESD in 2020. Professor Chiu has published nearly 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts and six book chapters and serves as co-editor of the journal Endoscopy. He has received numerous honors, including election as a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea in 2025, multiple gold and silver medals at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, the Karl-Storz-Harold Hopkins Golden Telescope Award in 2023, and the State Scientific and Technological Progress Award from the People’s Republic of China in 2007. He is a member of the Hospital Authority Board and the Steering Committee on Health and Medical Innovation Development of the HKSAR Government and previously served as President of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia from 2021 to 2023.