Expertise

• Paediatric general surgery
• Neonatal surgery
• Paediatric thoracic surgery
• Paediatric urology

Biography

Professor Kenneth Wong is a surgeon scientist at the University of Hong Kong. He received medical degree from University of Edinburgh and his Ph.D degree in immunology and post-doc training at Imperial College, University of London. He is currently Li Shu-Pui Professor in Surgery and Chief of Paediatric Surgery in the Department of Surgery.

He is a specialist paediatric and neonatal surgeon with main clinical interests in neonatal surgery, advanced laparoscopic/ robotic surgery, gastrointestinal and thoracic surgery. He helped set up the paediatric robotic surgery programme and also introduced single port surgery, bariatric surgery and thoracoscopic surgery in children in Hong Kong. He has been co-project leader in “Laparoscopic Workshops for Paedaitric Surgeons in China” since 2007 and has helped trained over 2500 Chinese surgeons. In 2023, his team was awarded the Hospital Authoirty Outstanding Team Award for Neonatal Surgical Service.

The major research areas of Professor Wong include clinical applications of nanomedicine using various animal disease models, genome-wide association of childhood congenital disease, tissue repair and regeneration. Professor Wong has published over 244 papers in peer-reviewed SCI journals and has contributed to 20 book chapters. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Pediatric Surgery Open and also Associate Editors of 9 clinical and scientific journals and has given over 100 invited lectures worldwide.

Professor Wong is the current Presidents of Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons (PAPS), Asian Association of Pediatric Surgeons (AAPS) and Hong Kong Society of Paedaitric Surgery.

Research interests

• Molecular biology of childhood tumours
• Immuno-modulation in transplantation tolerance
• Nanomedicine for wound regeneration and tumor therapy (including novel drug therapies)

Publications and achievements

HKU Scholars Hub/ ORCID