faculty

Christy WH MAK

Associate Consultant
Department of Surgery
Kwong Wah Hospital

Dr Mak is an Associate Consultant in the Department of Surgery at Kwong Wah Hospital, Hong Kong. She obtained her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and completed specialist training in Urology in Hong Kong. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Urology and the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong.

She provides specialist urological care with clinical expertise spanning endourology, minimally invasive surgery and male infertility surgery. Her particular interests include advanced endourological techniques, including laser applications in stone surgery.

Committed to surgical education and professional leadership, she currently serves as Treasurer of the Women’s Chapter of the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong and as Council Member of the Hong Kong Urological Association. She is also actively involved in surgical training and endourology education.

Alex QY LIU

Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr Alex Liu is currently the Assistant Professor at the Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). After his primary medical degree, he completed his Master of Science with distinction from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), with a focus in clinical trials methodology. He received his specialty training in Hong Kong, and obtained fellowship in urology from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) and the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong (CSHK). During his training, his research work received multiple awards and accolades, including the Samuel Kwok Medal for Outstanding Research, the CSHK Best Research Award, and the European Association of Urology (EAU) Best Abstract Award Second Prize (Non-oncology).

Dr Liu's research interest is on the application of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) in answering clinical questions as well as aiding surgical practice. He is an active member of EAU's UroEvidenceHub (UEH) PIONEER project on prostate cancer big data collaboration group. He is also a full member of the EAU Young Academic Urologists (infection working group), and is dedicated to high quality research work in this area.

Joseph KM LI

Consultant
Department of Surgery
Pok Oi Hospital

Dr Joseph Li obtained a degree in medical science in 2007 and his medical degree in 2010 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He holds fellowships from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburg and the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong.

Dr Li is currently serving as a consultant urologist in Pok Oi Hospital, honorary clinical associate professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, President of the Hong Kong Society of Endourology, and faculty in Asian Urological Surgery Training and Educational Group (AUSTEG).

Dr Li has a strong interest in the management of urolithiasis. He introduced free-hand, ultrasound-guided puncture; and popularized supine, miniaturized PCNL/ECIRS in Hong Kong. He is dedicated to improve stone surgery, and to propagate the use of ECIRS.

Trevor CF LI

Private Practice

Dr. Li, a private urologist, has been an early adopter of innovative technologies in urinary stone surgeries. His focus on large renal stones led him to embrace novel devices such as the thulium fiber laser (TFL) and techniques like retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS) at an early stage. He has shared his experience at various lectures and symposiums.

Vera Y CHUNG

Private Practice

Dr Chung qualified in 2003 from the University of Hong Kong. She was trained as urologist in Queen Elizabeth Hospital and obtained Fellowship of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2011. She was promoted to associate consultant in Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in 2012. From 2013 to 2015 she has completed two-year European Board of Urology (EBU) Fellowship in endourology and laparoscopy at Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford. In Oxford, she also consolidated her training in the management of continence and prolapse problems in the Department of Gynaecology.

Apart from special interests in endourology, laparoscopic surgery and female urology, Dr Chung also maintains her interest in research and association with academic institutions. During the fellowship she has conducted several basic science research projects in collaboration with Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford. Her research project was on the pathophysiology of kidney stone disease using Drosophila as genetic model.

She is an active member of European Association of Urology and has presented in many international conferences including annual European Association of Urology Congress, World Congress of Endourology and International Continence Society. She was awarded “Best Original Research” by Hong Kong Academic of Medicine in 2009. In recent years, she has published a number of original articles in the “Surgical Practice”, “Hong Kong Medical Journal”, “The Fly”, “Urolithiasis”, “Urologia” and “BMC Urology” as first author. She is also invited as reviewer for several scientific journals.

Since 2020, Dr Chung has been serving as the Honorary Secretary of Hong Kong Society of Practicing Urologist to promote continues medical education and update on urological disease treatment and prevention.

Bryan KC CHENG

Private Practice

Dr. Bryan Kwun-Chung Cheng graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2009 and was registered as a urology specialist in 2016. He served as an Associate Consultant in the Department of Surgery in United Christian Hospital from 2017 to 2022, and acted the Deputy Service Director in the Quality and Safety Office of Kowloon East Cluster.

Dr. Cheng specializes in the surgical treatment of benign prostatic obstruction (BPO) and has special interests in andrology treatment. He is one of the pioneers of holmium laser enucleation of prostate (HoLEP) surgery in Hong Kong. Through collaboration with radiologists, he has also established prostatic-arterial embolization as a novel treatment in his centre for high-risk surgical candidate with refractory retention. Dr. Cheng has received overseas andrology training in University of Washington, Seattle and has set-up the first Men’s Health clinic in Kowloon East Cluster in 2019.

As a recognition to his achievement, he has been awarded the Hospital
Authority Young Achiever Award in 2020.

Lysander H CHAU

Private Practice

He graduated from The University of Hong Kong in 2000. He completed urological training and obtained Fellowship in Urology in Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2008. Since 2009, He was appointed to be associate consultant in Urology Team in HKEC and then in KEC in 2010. From 10/2017 onwards, he worked as a consultant in NTWC helping to develop endo-urological ambulatory urology services and cross-cluster robotic urological surgery. Then he contributed to develop own robotic surgery service in NTWC after installation of the machine from 1/2023 onwards. In 2021, he was elected as committee member of Urology Board and then the horonary secretary in 2023. He is also the team head of Urology Team in NTWC since 1/2023 until he joined private group practice since 4/2024.

He has special interest in urolithiasis management with various published paper, trial and audit in the field. He is the first one in Hong Kong to introduce navigation system in management of renal stone using PCNL. The procedure was granted one of the honorable video in the Award Winning Video Session in AUA 2014 and he would like to share the experience with the rest world. At present he tries to promote supine PCNL together with ECIRS to maximize complex stone clearance in Hong Kong, both public and private practice.

Samson YS CHAN

Consultant
Department of Surgery
Tuen Mun Hospital

Dr Chan received his medical degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. He completed his urologic residency at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong and obtained fellowship from College of Surgeons of Hong Kong and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2018 and he was awarded the C.H. LEONG medal and scholarship. Motivated by a profound commitment to improving healthcare access and quality, Dr Chan completed a Master of Science in Health Service Management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2025 aiming to contribute strategically to the evolving healthcare landscape.

He is currently the Consultant Urologist in New Territory West Cluster of Hospital Authority and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His surgical interests include minimally invasive surgery and reconstructive urology. Dr Chan also actively participate in hospital administration and trainee’s education, he is currently the Chairman of Young Urologists Session of Hong Kong Urological Association and member of the Asian Urological Surgical Training and Education Group.

Jia-Lun KWOK

Consultant, Endourology Service Lead &
Endourology Fellowship Director
Department of Urology
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Singapore

Dr Jia-Lun Kwok is a Consultant, Endourology Service Lead and Endourology Fellowship Director with the Department of Urology at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, NHG Health, Singapore. Dr Kwok completed advanced training with a one-year Endourology Fellowship at University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. His areas of interest are endourology (PCNL, ECIRS, URS, FANS, DISS, SIPS), stone disease, laser lithotripsy, suction, and benign prostate conditions.

Leading the Endourology service, Dr Kwok has extensive clinical expertise in flexible ureteroscopy, suction applications, PCNL, including ECIRS and Simultaneous Bilateral Endoscopic Surgery, across different laser technologies, with emphasis on short stay surgery.

Dr Kwok is a keen researcher in the field of Endourology, with international collaborations. He is a member of the Progressive Endourological Association for Research and Leading Solutions (PEARLS), Paris, France. He is also an associate member of the Section of EAU Endourology, and Associate Board Member of the Asian Urological Society of Endoluminal Surgery & Technology (AUSET).

Dr Kwok is heavily involved in education, being the Program Director of the National Healthcare Group (NHG) Urology Residency Program. He is also Lecturer with both National University of Singapore (NUS) and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and contributes as faculty at various international Endourology training courses.

Olivier TRAXER

Professor of Urology & Chairman
Urology Department
Sorbonne University
France

Dr Olivier TRAXER is Professor of Urology and Chairman Urology department Sorbonne University Tenon hospital (Paris-France). The Tenon Urology department Sorbonne University is certified by the EndoUrological Society for 1&2 years Fellowship program and EBU host center certified for Stone/EndoUrology, BPH, Incontinence and Neuro-Urology. Professor Traxer is also the director of the GRC#20 (Clinical Research Group #20) at Sorbonne University. He did a research-fellowship at Southwestern Medical School, University of Texas-Dallas-USA (Charles Y.C PAK & Margaret Sue PEARLE) to subspecialize in Endourology and kidney stone management.

As endo-urologist, his main goal is to improve the knowledge on urinary stone disease and endourology. Pr Traxer published more than 620 per-reviewed papers. Pr Traxer is a board member of: the EndoUrological Society, the French Association of Urology (AFU) and chair of EAU Endourology. He is an active member of AAGUS & AAEU. He was also the treasurer of SIU. He received in 2010 (Chicago-WCE) the Arthur Smith Award and the Ralph Clayman Mentor Award in 2020. In 2022 he received the St Paul Medal at BAUS annual meeting. He was also the president of the World Congress of EndoUrology in Paris 2018 (WCE2018) and became a member of the French Academy of Surgery in 2022. In 2023 he became Honorary Member of the UAA in Dubai. In 2024 he was nominated as new Chair of EAU-Endourology (ESEUT: European Section of EndoUrology and Technology) for EAU.

Vineet GAUHAR

Principal Resident Physician
Department of Urology
Ng Teng Fong General Hospital
Singapore

After receiving his Masters in Urology training In India with honors at the Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Dr. Gauhar served as an associate professor and senior consultant both at the university and private multinational corporate hospitals until 2008.

Subsequently completed a dual Fellowship and Diploma in MIS Urology at the National University Hospital in Singapore from the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, he joined as a founder member of the department of urology at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NUHS) and is currently working here. His field of expertise is MIS in calculus disease, MIST for prostate and MIS in renal cancer and kidney diseases. Well acclaimed regionally and internationally for training of national and international residents and fellows his department is a premier tertiary institute for MIS in stone and prostate surgery. His areas of focus also include urogenital infections, male urethral disease, and artificial Intelligence applications.

With a key focus on teaching, clinical research, and minimally invasive surgery, and having received three times the “Service quality award” and “Long term service award in urology”, the "silver service award in urology", EAU UROTECH innovations paper award (2021) and BANTUC innovation prize award (2022) and Best clinical paper award in endourology at EAU2025.

He is focused on advanced MIS for calculus, benign prostate disease and renal cancer and upper tract infections. As a principal investigator he has pioneered 25 “Real world multicenter studies” with more than 200 peer review publications and serves as editorial board member for many tier-1 journals.

Laurian DRAGOS

Consultant Urologist
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
UK

Qualification
Consultant Urological Surgeon

Education
Doctor of Medicine, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania

Current Postion
Consultant Urologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital,
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

Additional Positions
• Board member of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Endourology Section
• British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) Medical School Lead for the East of England
• British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) Endoscopy Course director
• Academic Program Lead, Urology Department,
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
• Students Program Lead, Urology Department,
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

Bohan WANG

Chief Physician
Department of Urology
Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University
China

Academic Background
• University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) (postdoctoral fellowship)
• Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (MD, PhD)

Position
• Chairman of the Youth Committee, International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU)
• Deputy Secretary-General of the Urolithiasis Group, Chinese Urology Association (CUA)
• Member of the Clinical Research Group, Chinese Urology Association (CUA)
• Deputy Director of the Youth Committee, Chinese Association of Integrative Urology (CAIU)
• Deputy Director of the Youth Committee, Urology Branch of Zhejiang Medical Association (ZJMA)

Research Achievements & Honors
• Has served as the Principal Investigator (PI) for 4 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
• Has published more than 20 SCI-indexed academic papers
• Awarded the 2022 Outstanding Young Physician Award of the International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU).

Editorial & Academic Publishing
• Serves as an editorial board member for multiple Chinese and English professional journals, including Journal of Clinical Urology, Journal of Modern Urogenital Oncology, and Frontiers in Medicine
• Has participated in compiling chapters of authoritative professional monographs, including Urolithiasis and Andrology

FANG LI

Chief Physician
First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University
China

- Doctor of Urology
- Chief physician of the First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University
- Core member of the Cheng Yue's urinary stone clinic
- Youth Committee Member of the International Alliance of Urolithiasis
- Member of the Surgery and Gynecology Group of the Chinese Society of Laser Medicine
- Member of the urolithology group of Urology Committee of Health Exchange and cooperation across the Taiwan straits
- Member of the Ningbo Association of Urology
- Member and Secretary of the Urology Professional Committee of Ningbo Association of Integrative Medicine

Bogdan GEAVLETE

Professor of Urology
"Saint John" Emergency Clinical Hospital
Department of Urology
Romania

Dr. Bogdan Geavlete, MD, PhD, is Professor of Urology at the "Saint John" Emergency Clinical Hospital, Department of Urology, in Bucharest, Romania. As a research scholar, his training included fellowships in endourology at Asklepios Klinik Barmbek in Hamburg, Germany, Tenon Hospital in Paris, France as well as a European Urological Scholarship Programme (EUSP) clinical fellowship at Radboud University, in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

During the past 15 years, he was involved as faculty (speaker, live surgery and moderator) in prestigious urological international events such as the EAU, AUA, WCE, SIU, CEM, EULIS and Challenges in Endourology annual meetings, as well as the most important national congresses and symposiums, while also co-authoring an impressive number of posters and videos.

His main areas of expertise and research focuses have been centered on non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (PhD in photodynamic diagnostic, international premiere and randomized clinical research in plasma-button large tumors’ vaporization and narrow band imaging), benign prostatic obstruction (prospective, randomized-controlled studies in bipolar plasma vaporization and enucleation) and urolithiasis (international speaker and trainer in flexible ureteroscopy, with numerous ISI publications in this field).

Dr. Geavlete gained numerous international and national awards for best posters, videos or oral presentations in the most important congresses of the urological international scientific agenda such as the EAU, CEM, EMUC, Experts in stone disease, Engineering and Urology Society and Challenges in Endourology & Functional Urology meetings. Also, he is an investigator in multicenter international clinical trials as well as in national research grants as project manager, while also completing a post-PhD research fellowship in narrow band imaging. He is a member in the organizing committees of high-profile congresses as well as in renowned international scientific committees and forums.

Over the past decade, Prof. Dr. Geavlete has been selected as a reviewer for prestigious international journals, published several books well known publishing houses as well as a large number of articles in high impact ISI journals.

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Steffi KK YUEN

Associate Consultant
Division of Urology
Department of Surgery
North District Hospital

Dr Steffi Yuen has been appointed as the first Li Shu Fan International Professor by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh for her global collaborative research on the latest cutting-edge technology in endourology. Through the initiative of the Global FLEXible Ureteroscopy Outcomes Registry—focusing on flexible and navigable suction ureteral access sheaths (FLEXOR-FANS), she unites the global endourology community in generating prospective real-world data on suction-based technology. She aims to refine patient selection, optimize practice and technique, and evaluate real-world efficacy and safety across diverse clinical settings with the latest suction-based urolithiasis treatment.

A specialist in endourology and minimally invasive surgery, she is passionate about the clinical integration of cutting-edge technologies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, including next-generation ureteroscopes, intelligent intrarenal pressure, temperature and fluid management platforms, and novel robotic retrograde intrarenal surgery/percutaneous nephrolithotomy and laser systems. She was the architect of her hospital’s comprehensive lower urinary tract symptoms/ benign prostatic hyperplasia pathway, encompassing the full spectrum of minimally invasive surgical therapies.

Globally engaged, Dr Yuen is a SIU Innovator and Vice-Chair of the International Alliance of Urolithiasis Youth Committee. She also holds roles including associate member of the EAU Endourology research and publication working group, Asian Urological Surgery Training and Education Group, and Asian Urological Society of Endoluminal Surgery and Technology, driving innovation, education, and international collaboration in urology.

Jaisukh KALATHIA

Director and Consultant Urologist
Fortune Urology Clinic
India

Dr. Kalathia is a urologist based in Botad, Gujarat, India. He serves as a Consultant Urologist at Fortune Urology Clinic for the past 8 years, where he routinely operates in various subfields of urology, including endo-urology, reconstructive urology, and uro-oncology. He has a robust academic portfolio and have authored over 16 peer-reviewed publications, accumulating more than 5,800 reads and 92 citations on ResearchGate. He has presented research papers in many national and international conferences that includes AUA, EAU, WCET, SIU, IAU and UAA.

Wen ZHONG

Chief Physician
Department of Urology
First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
China

Memberships
• President of International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU) Youth Member Committee
• Member of Chinese Urology Association (CUA) Endourology Group
• Member of China Urological Doctor Association (CUDA) Urolithiasis Group
• Member of China Integrated Medicine Association Urolithiasis Group
• Member of Guangdong Medical Association Urolithiasis Group

Work Experience
2023.8-present Chief Physician
Department of Urology
First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University

2013.12-2023.8 Associate Chief Physician
Department of Urology
First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University

2007.7-2013.11 Attending Physician
Department of Urology
First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University

Education
2013.12-2014.12 Postdoc
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

2011.9-2014.6 Ph.D, Clinical Medicine
Southern Medical University

2004.9-2007.6 Master, Surgery
Guangzhou Medical University

1999.9-2004.6 Bachelor, Clinical Medicine
Wuhan University of Science and Technology

Awards
• IAU Outstanding Young Physician Award
• Guangdong Outstanding Young Medical Talents Award
• Guangzhou High-level Talents Award
• Pearl River Science and Technology New Star Award

Bhaskar SOMANI

Professor of Urology
University of Southampton
UK

Prof Somani is a world renowned endourologist and a high-volume surgeon. He has performed more than 3500 ureteroscopy procedures (surgery to treat kidney stones). His outcomes show a stone-free rate of 96% and a minor complication rate of 4%, with nearly 80% of patients being able to go home on the same day as their surgery.

Prof Somani is also the clinical director of the south coast regional lithotripsy services (a treatment that uses shock waves to break down kidney stones). More than 5,000 procedures have been carried out under his supervision since 2012. He is also the Editor in Chief of Journal of Clinical Urology, the official journal of British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS).

His main clinical interests are:
• Benign prostate disorders and interventions for them (TURP, Rezum, PAE, Urolift and lasers)
• Simple and complex urinary tract infections (vaccines, D-Mannose, hippuric acid, probiotics, intravesical antibiotics)
• Simple and complex kidney and bladder stone disease
• Kidney and bladder stone disease
• Haematuria (blood in urine)
• General urology (circumcision, vasectomy, scrotal procedures)
• Application of artificial intelligence to enhance clinical decision-making, improve patient outcomes, and optimise healthcare delivery

Prof Somani has recently started using a new laser technique called 'pop-dusting' to remove kidney stones.

Prof Somani has developed a portfolio of activities to raise public awareness of the symptoms, prevention and treatment of kidney stones, including appearing on BBC Radio 4's Inside Health programme, BBC South television and ITV Meridian News.

Wei ZHU

Associate Professor & Deputy Chief Physician
Department of Urology
The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
China

Dr. Zhu Wei specializes in the minimally invasive treatment of urinary tract stones, particularly the surgical treatment of complex stones and solitary kidney stones, as well as comprehensive treatment for the prevention of recurrence. He has been recognized as a high-level health talent in Guangzhou, a training candidate for the Guangzhou Association for Science and Technology's "Young Scientific Talent Lift Project," and a reserve talent for the "Nanshan Scholars" at Guangzhou Medical University.

He serves as an editorial board member of the Asian Journal of Urology. Dr. Zhu has led five national and provincial-level research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. As the first or corresponding author (including co-corresponding author), he has published over 30 SCI/ESCI papers. Additionally, he has co-authored three English monographs and two Chinese monographs.

Brian SH HO

Private Practice

Dr Brian Ho graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong in 2006. He completed his Urology training at Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, where he obtained his Fellowship in Urology from the Hong Kong College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 2014.

To further his specialist training, Dr Ho completed an observership at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York under the tutelage of Dr Guido Dalbagni in 2016, acquiring in-depth knowledge in managing bladder cancer patients. Dr Ho also studied under Professor Zeng Guohua at The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University in 2017 to attain proficiency in miniaturized PCNL and help bring the SMP (SuperMiniPCNL) system to Hong Kong.

From 2016 to 2025, Dr Ho treated a wide variety of urology patients initially as an Associate Consultant and then subsequently as a Consultant at Queen Mary Hospital. The spectrum of diseases ranges from benign prostate hyperplasia to complex renal stones to advanced urological cancers to renal transplantation.

Besides providing service to patients in need, Dr Brian Ho has an interest in research and innovative technology. He has been involved in multiple international multicenter trials and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and abstracts in international and regional journals. Dr Ho was also one of the principal investigators in the MT-02 study on the innovative iTIND (implantable Temporary Nitinol Device) in the treatment of BPH. In addition, Dr Ho helped bring PUL (prostatic urethral lift) into the Medical Device program of the Hospital Authority in Hong Kong.

Working in the university-affiliated Queen Mary Hospital gave Dr Ho the opportunity to provide training to the next generation of medical doctors especially those in the subspecialty of Urology. He has been the course director for the joint HKU / ESUT Masterclass in Laparoscopic Urological Surgery – Animal Dissection Workshop from 2018 to 2022 and is interested in promoting training in minimally invasive surgery in young, aspiring urologists.

Dr Ho has multiple appointments including an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at The University of Hong Kong, an editorial board member of the Hong Kong Medical Journal, an Honorary Secretary of the Hong Kong Urological Association, and a previous Committee Member of the Youth Section of the Urological Association of Asia.

His special interests are benign prostate hyperplasia treatment, robotic surgery for urological cancers, renal stones, and renal transplantation.

Christine Joy Castillo

Urology Consultant
Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Cente
Philippines

Dr. Christine Joy Castillo is a Urology Consultant at Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center and an Assistant Professor at the College of Medicine, De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute.

She completed her Doctor of Medicine at the University of Santo Tomas (2010-2014) and obtained a Bachelor's degree in Medical Technology from the same institution (2006-2010). Dr. Castillo pursued residency in Urology at Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center (2016-2021) and further specialized as a Fellow in Endourology, MIS, and Robotics at Seoul National University Hospital (2023-2024).

In addition to her clinical roles, Dr. Castillo is the current Chairwoman and Editor-in-Chief of the Philippine Journal of Urology and serves as Secretary on the Board of Directors at St. Martin Maternity and Pediatric Hospital. She also leads the Skills Training for Endourology and Minimally Invasive Surgery Department at Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center.

Inducted as a Fellow of the Philippine Urological Association and Diplomate of the Philippine Board of Urology, Dr. Castillo has been actively involved in various professional organizations, including the Philippine Urological Association & Asian Urological Society of Endoluminal Surgery and Technology. Her expertise focuses on stones and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH), and she is a recognized speaker at local and international urologic conferences, with research centered on urolithiasis. She currently practices as a consultant urologist in several hospitals across Cavite and Manila.

Anthony CF NG

Tzu Leung Ho Professor of Urology
Department of Surgery
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dr NG Chi Fai, Anthony graduated in the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993. He then joined Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, as surgical trainee. After his basic training, he decided to become an urologist and became a specialist in 2001. Attracted by the rapid development in endourology, he spent one year in Scotland, worked under Mr David Tolley, and gained extensive experience in endo laparoscopic surgery and stone management.

After completion of his training, Dr Ng decided to join The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006 and is currently the Director of the S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also the Director of CUHK Jockey Club Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills Centre. He has a wide range of interest, in particular in prostate diseases, urolithiasis, and promotion of men’s health. He was also honored with the Outstanding Young Urologist Award in 2010 by the Asian Congress of Urology, the International Guest Scholar 2012 of the American College of Surgeons and the World Chinese Urology Association Award 2014, as recognitions to his work in the field.

Besides clinical and research work, Dr Ng has also strong commitment in education and teaching. He is currently member of the educational subcommittee of the Hong Kong Urological Association and also the council member of the College of Surgeon of Hong Kong and also the Urology Board of the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong. He is actively involved in the planning of the urological training in Hong Kong.

Also he has been awarded the Best teacher Award (2008-2009, 2011- 2012) of the Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, for his contribution in undergraduate teaching. He has also initiated a series of public educational activities “Watchman” (included: webpage - www.watchman.hk; facebook page - watch!man ; iphone apps - watchman) to help to improve the public knowledge on Men’s health related topics.

Kwan Lun HO

Private Practice

Dr. Kwan Lun HO graduated in the University of Hong Kong in 1997. He was elected fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in Urology, College of Surgeons of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in Surgery in 2004. Dr. Ho was appointed Consultant Urologist of Queen Mary Hospital in May 2010. He has moved to private practice since June 2014.

Dr. Ho had trained in minimal invasive urology surgery including endourological, conventional laparoscopic and robotic surgery. His service covers a wide spectrum of surgery including oncological procedures and male infertility procedures. He had been a trainer of basic surgical training and higher surgical training in Urology.

Key areas of professional interests:
- Prostate check-up and advanced prostate cancer diagnostics including MRI-Ultrasound guided fusion prostate biopsy
- Advanced endoscopic treatment of urinary stone including retrograde intrarenal laser surgery
- Robotic radical prostatectomy
- Open and minimal invasive kidney cancer treatment
- Male infertility assessment and treatment
- Microsurgical varicocelectomy
- Sperm retrieval procedures