Ashely Cheng

Biography

Dr. Cheng graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong in 1987. He received his oncology training in Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong and obtained his FRCR in 1993. He was in-charge of the brachytherapy service of Queen Mary Hospital, and had treated many difficult breast and head and neck cancers with brachytherapy, before moving to Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong as consultant in 2006 to help establish the new oncology centre there. He became the chief of service in Oncology of the Kowloon West Cluster in 2016. Dr. Cheng has special interest in head and neck, breast and lung cancers and is instrumental in the development of cancer service in the Hong Kong. He is also keen in promoting research and the use of information technology in oncology. He is currently the deputy chairman of the Coordinating Committee in Clinical Oncology, chairman of Cancer Informatics Working Group of Hospital Authority and chairman of Kowloon West Cluster Research Ethics Committee and Clinical Research Centre of Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong. Dr. Cheng also serves in the Training Course Committee of Hong Kong College of Radiologists and the Drug Advisory Committee of Hospital Authority. He has been an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in Clinical Oncology, The University of Hong Kong since 2006, and an Honorary Associate Professor in Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2015.  

Research Interest

head and neck, breast and lung cancers