Ava Kwong

Biography

Dr. Ava Kwong is the Chief of Breast Surgery Division, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong Medical Centre, Director of the Tung Wah Hospital Breast Centre and Director of Breast Center of University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital. She is the Assistant Dean (Faculty Advancement and Knowledge Exchange) of Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong. She is Honorary Consultant in Breast Surgery at Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital. She had also held the position of Visiting Associate Professor, Division of Oncology, at the Stanford University, USA from 2006- 2013. She has been appointed to be the co-leader of Cancer Work Group in the development of Cancer Services planning of Hong Kong West Cluster, Hospital Authority in 2012 being responsible in the planning of cancer services for the new development plan of Queen Mary Hospital and cluster. In 2013 she was elected to be the Deputy Chief and Committee Member of the Shenzhen Breast and Endocrine Cancer Society, The People’s Republic of China. Aside from her clinical and academic work, she also contributes to the governmental bodies and she has also been appointed to be a member of the Cancer Coordinating Committee of the Food and Health Bureau, Government Secretariat, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People's Republic of China in August 2014. During her surgical career, she has gained multiple awards including the Hong Kong International Cancer Congress "Young Investigator Award" in 2006 and 2008 on her research work on breast cancer genetics in Chinese and Asian population, the Breast Surgery International Best Paper Prize, at the International Society of Surgery International Surgical Week meeting in 2007, and a scholarship for undertaking a research fellowship in Breast Cancer Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2005.

Research Interest

Breast Cancer Genetics