Professor Chi-tim Hung

Biography

Dr 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 during his presidency. ​ In 2005, after practising anaesthesia and pain management for more than two decades, Dr. 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 has wide academic interests, especially on quality and safety promotion, operational management, organizational culture and simulation. He is also interested in education and training of doctors, and was the Vice-President (Education & Examinations) of Hong Kong Academy of Medicine from December 2004 to December 2011. He was awarded the Honorary Fellowship of Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in December 2012; and Honorary Fellowship of Hong Kong College of Anaesthesiologists in November 2015. 

Research Interest

Organization culture Operation management Health care policy