Juliana Cn Chan
Professor
Medicine & Therapeutics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Biography
Professor Chan is a clinician scientist committed to translate evidence to practice and develop novel solutions for unmet needs. In the early 1990s, motivated by the observation of high prevalence of young-onset type 2 diabetes and renal disease, she set up the Hong Kong Diabetes Registry and multiple cohorts to define the epidemiology of diabetes in Chinese populations. These prospective cohorts have laid the foundation for an overarching program to use a multiomic approach to discover genetic variants of diabetes and its complications for personalized care. She is currently a member of an NIH funded Global Consortium to discover causal genes in type 2 diabetes in a multi-ethnic population.Being one of the first Asian investigators involved in large scale multicenter studies in diabetes since 1990s, she has established the CUHK Diabetes Clinical Trial Centre which is one of the most active units in the region. She has co-authored in 500 peer-reviewed articles, including editorials and commentaries, and 20 book chapters with over 10,000 citations.
Research Interest
Epidemiology, genetics, clinical trials and care models of diabetes and obesity
Publications
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Chan JC, Sui Y, Oldenburg B, Zhang Y, Chung HH, Goggins W, Au S, Brown N, Ozaki R, Wong RY, Ko GT, Fisher E, for the JADE and PEARL Project Team. Effects of telephone-based peer support in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus receiving integrated care: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2014; 174:972-81.
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Luk AO, Lau ES, So WY, Ma RC, Kong AP, Ozaki R, Chow FC, Chan JC. Prospective study on the incidences of cardiovascular-renal complications in Chinese patients with young-onset type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2014;37:149-157
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Yeung RO, Zhang YY, Luk A, Yang W, Sobrepena L, Yoon, KH, Aravind SR, Sheu W, Nguyen TK, Ozaki, R, Deerochanawong C, Tsang CC, Chan WB, Hong EG, Do TQ, Cheung Y, Brown N, Goh SY, Ma RC, Mukhopadhyay M, Ojha AK, Chakraborty S, Kong AP, Lau W, Jia W, Li W, Guo X, Bian R, Weng J, Ji L, Rosa MD, Toledo RM, Himathongkam T, Yoo SJ, Ho LLT, Chuang LM, Tutino G, Tong PC, So WY, Wolthers T, Ko G, Lyubomirsky G, Chan JC. Metabolic profiles and treatment gaps in young-onset type 2 diabetes in Asia (the JADE programme): a prospective cohort. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinology 2014 Jul 28. pii: S2213-8587(14)70137-8. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(14)70137-8.
