Expertise

• Male Genital Malignancy
• Men's Sexual and Reproductive Health

Biography

Professor Karl Pang is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Urological Surgery, Department of Surgery at The University of Hong Kong and an Honorary Clinical Lecturer in the Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College London (UCL), UK.

Professor Pang graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2009 and graduated from King's College London with a Clinical BSc in Immunobiology in 2007. He then undertook Academic Foundation training in Birmingham and Oxford University Hospitals (2009-2011) and entered Academic Specialty training in Urological Surgery in the Yorkshire deanery (2011-2022), including Sheffield and Leeds Teaching Hospitals. As part of his Academic training, he obtained a MSc in Clinical Research (2014) and a laboratory-based PhD in Prostate Cancer Epigenetics (2018) from the University of Sheffield, supervised by Professor James Catto. A component of his PhD was conducted at the University of Chicago. Professor Pang's PhD was funded by the Royal College of Surgeons (England) and The Urology Foundation (TUF), UK (~£150,000). Following completion of his specialty training, he undertook a one-year clinical fellowship in Andrology at The University College London Hospitals (UCLH) with Professor Asif Muneer. He also obtained £50,000 funding from TUF to conduct research in Penile Cancer Epigenetics at UCL. He broadened his training by undertaking a 6-week fellowship at the OLV Hospital and ORSI Academy Centre (Aalst, Belgium) in Robotic Urological Surgery with Professor Alexandre Mottrie. Professor Pang is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Eng) and European Board of Urology.

Positions

• Senior Associate of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Guidelines Office Committee
• Committee Member of the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) Young Researchers Section
• Committee Member of the European Society for Sexual Medicine (ESSM) Basic Science Section
• Committee Member of the EAU-Young Academic Urology Penile and Testes Cancer section (2023-2024)
• Committee Member of the EAU-Young Academic Urology Sexual and Reproductive section (2022-2023)
• Past European Society of Residents in Urology (ESRU, 2017-2023) UK Representative

Awards

• 2022 British Medical Association (BMA) Book Award: Surgery and Surgical Specialties Category (Book title: Basic Urological Science)
• Resident Corner Award (2019) for the best paper published by a resident in the European Urology Journal (IF: 23.4) - presented at the 34th EAU (Barcelona, 2019)
• Gordon Bryden Medal for the Best Regional Oral Presentation (Yorkshire, 2018)
• Best Regional Oral Presentation of the Cancer Section (Yorkshire, 2018)
• 1st Prize presentation, 30th EAU Congress Prostate Cancer Biomarker Session (Madrid, 2015)

Research interests

• Mechanism and Progression of Urological Cancer
• Men's Sexual and Reproductive Health

Publications and achievements

HKU Scholars Hub/ ORCID