Prof. Chi-tim HUNG, JP
熊志添教授
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ORCID: 0000-0003-2103-8377
Scopus Author ID: 57217595660
Academic Appointments
- Programme Director, MSc in Health Services Management
Bio
Prof Hung pursued the career of an anaesthesiologist after internship. During the latter part of his anaesthesiologist career, he promoted the development of pain medicine in Hong Kong and set up a Pain Medicine training program under the Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologists (HKCA) during his presidency of HKCA. After a successful anaesthesia and pain management career for more than two decades, Prof Hung took up administrative medicine as his second career. From 2005 to 2013, he was Hospital Chief Executive of Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Cluster Chief Executive of the Kowloon Central Cluster, Hospital Authority. From 2014 until his retirement from Hospital Authority in late 2016, he was Hospital Chief Executive, Prince of Wales Hospital and Cluster Chief Executive, New Territories East Cluster. He joined the CUHK JC School of Public Health and Primary Care in Jan 2017 as Professor of Practice in Health Services Management.
Prof Hung is interested in education and training of doctors, and has served as the President of the HK College of Anaesthesiologists, and the Vice-President (Education & Examinations) of Hong Kong Academy of Medicine from December 2004 to December 2011. Since February 2019 he is currently the Chairman of Council, Macao Academy of Medicine. He was awarded the Honorary Fellowship of Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in December 2012; Justice of Peace in 2013, and Honorary Fellowship of Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologists in November 2015. He has wide academic interests, especially on quality and safety promotion, simulation, operational management, organizational culture, organisation management and health care policy.
Research Interest
- Organization culture
- Operation management
- Health care policy
- Organisation management
Recent Funded Research Projects
- To identify asymptomatic carriers through longitudinal follow-up of close contacts of known COVID-19 patients and healthcare workers taking care of these patients.
- How high is the risk of environmental contamination and airborne infection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus?
Selected Publications
Journals
- Wang K, Zhao S, Lee EK, Yau SZ, Wu Y, Hung CT, Yeoh EK. Risk of Dementia Among Patients With Diabetes in a Multidisciplinary, Primary Care Management Program. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Feb 5;7(2):e2355733. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.55733. PMID: 38345817; PMCID: PMC10862158.
- Wang H, Wei Y, Hung CT, Lin G, Jiang X, Li C, Jia KM, Yam CHK, Chow TY, Ho JY, Wang Y, Zhao S, Guo Z, Li K, Yang A, Mok CKP, Hui DSC, Yeoh EK, Chong KC. Association of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir with post-acute sequelae and mortality in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet Infect Dis. 2024 May 3:S1473-3099(24)00217-2. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(24)00217-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38710190.
- Zhao S, Guo Z, Sun S, Hung CT, Leung EYM, Wei Y, Wang H, Li K, Yam CHK, Chow TY, Gao J, Jia KM, Chong KC, Yeoh EK. Effectiveness of BNT162b2 and Sinovac vaccines against the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during Omicron-predominance in Hong Kong: A retrospective cohort study of COVID-19 cases. J Clin Virol. 2023 Sep;166:105547. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2023.105547.
- Wang K, Ho KF, Leung LY, Chow KM, Cheung YY, Tsang D, Lai RW, Xu RH, Yeoh EK, Hung CT. Risk of air and surface contamination of SARS-CoV-2 in isolation wards and its relationship with patient and environmental characteristics. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2022 Aug; 241:113740. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.113740. Epub 2022 Jun 6. PMID: 35687998; PMCID: PMC9167918.
- Huang W, Wang K, Hung CT, Chow KM, Tsang D, Lai RW, Xu RH, Yeoh EK, Ho KF, Chen C. Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in COVID-19 isolation wards: On-site sampling and numerical analysis. J Hazard Mater. 2022 Aug 15;436:129152. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129152. Epub 2022 May 14. PMID: 35739698; PMCID: PMC9106403.
- Lau JYC, Hung CT, Lee SS. A review of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) programmes by delivery models in the Asia-Pacific through the healthcare accessibility framework. J Int AIDS Soc 2020;23:e25531. doi: 10.1002/jia2.25531.
Book Chapters
- 熊志添，馮康，楊永强。醫療體系。In 張妙清，趙永佳：香港特區二十年。香港中文大學香港亞太研究所，2017年
- Hung CT, Wong SHS. Chap 10: Headache., in “Pain Medicine: A Multidisciplinary Approach”. Editors: Tsui SL, Chen PP, Ng JKF. Hong Kong University Press 2010, Hong Kong.
- Hung CT, Li TTL. Chap 11: Orofacial Pain., in “Pain Medicine: A Multidisciplinary Approach”. Editors: Tsui SL, Chen PP, Ng JKF. Hong Kong University Press 2010, Hong Kong.
- Hung CT, Ho PL. High Risk Procedures: How to play safe., in “SARS”. Editors: Hospital Authority. Elsevier Science 2006.