Grace Wong, MD

Biography

Professor Grace Lai-Hung Wong
MBChB (Hons), MD (CUHK), FRCP(Lond, Edin), FHKCP, FHKAM(Medicine)
Director, Medical Data Analytics Centre (MDAC)
Deputy Director, Center for Liver Health
Assistant Dean (Learning Experience), Faculty of Medicine
Professor, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
President, The Hong Kong Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (HKASLD)

Grace Wong is the Professor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2001 with honours and distinctions in 7 subjects including Medicine. In 2010, she received the Doctoral Degree of Medicine of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her main research interest includes big data research in hepatology, chronic viral hepatitis, and risk prediction and risk reduction of hepatocellular carcinoma, and non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis. She has published over 460 articles in peer-reviewed journals including Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Journal of Hepatology. Gut and Hepatology. She is currently the Associate Editor of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. She has been awarded for the Young Investigator Award of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver in 2009, the Distinguished Research Paper Award for Young Investigators of the Hong Kong College of Physicians in 2010, 2013, 2014 and 2015, the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Hong Kong in 2014, Sir David Todd Lectureship of Hong Kong College of Physicians in 2016, the Distinguished Young Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in 2017, the Emerging Leader Lectureship of the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Foundation (JGHF), the Presidential Awards in the Global Hepatitis Summit 2021, the Richard Yu Lectureship of Hong Kong College of Physicians in 2021, the Best Reviewer Award of the Journal of Hepatology.