Professor LAU Chak-sing
Vice-President & Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Health) /
Dean of Medicine /
Chair Professor of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
The University of Hong Kong
Professor CS Lau has been instrumental in promoting rheumatology in Hong Kong and beyond.
He presided over the HK Society of Rheumatology (1997 – 2001), and was Founding Chairman of the HK Arthritis & Rheumatism Foundation (2001). He was also the President of the HK Academy of Medicine (2016 – 2020), a statutory body for medical and dental specialist training, as well as a key advisory body to the HKSAR Government on health-related policies. In addition, Professor Lau sits on numerous strategic committees/working groups of the Health Bureau, Hospital Authority and Department of Health.
Regionally, Professor Lau was President of the Asia Pacific League of Rheumatology Associations (APLAR) (2006-2008) and co-founded the Asia Pacific Lupus Collaboration. Beyond the Asia Pacific region, he was a Member of the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (1999–2002), European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) Task Force on Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment Recommendations (2019) and EULAR Scientific Committee (2019-2023). He was selected as an Honorary Member of EULAR in 2022 and a member of the Academia Europaea in 2023; and was conferred the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa by the University of Glasgow in 2024.
