Vincent CH Chung 鍾志豪

BCM, BSc (Hons) (HKBU), MSc (Oxon), PhD (CUHK), FRSPH

Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioner

Assistant Professor, The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care 

Associate Director (Education), Hong Kong Institute of Integrative Medicine 

The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Biography

Dr. Vincent Chung is one of the first batch of Chinese Medicine practitioners trained after 1997, and is one of the few in academe contributing to the development of the government’s policy of integrating Chinese Medicine in the health system. He received the Hong Kong Jockey Club Scholarship in 1999 and completed his undergraduate Chinese medicine education as an Outstanding Student of the School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2005. In the same year he started his PhD study in the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2008, he received a Global Scholarship Grant for training in University of Cambridge.

Since joining the School, Dr. Chung has been the investigator of several policy and clinical research projects on Chinese medicine funded by the Research Grant Council, the Health and Medical Research Fund, and the Hospital Authority.  He has developed expertise in research evidence synthesis on qualitative studies, mixed method studies, as well as  meta-analysis of clinical trials. On primary clinical research, he is the principal investigator of Health and Medical Research Fund supported randomized controlled trials, evaluating the effectiveness of electro-acupuncture for carpal tunnel syndrome and functional dyspepsia. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow of the Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

He participated in Traditional Medicine development initiatives led by the World Health Organization, including the formulations of Traditional Medicine Strategy and the application of Traditional Medicine in promoting healthy aging. He has recently awarded the Li Po Chun Charitable Trust Funding to complete a MSc in Evidence Based Healthcare in University of Oxford.  He is an associate editor of BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, European Journal of Integrative Medicine, and Advances in Integrative Medicine. He also serves on the International Advisory Board of Complementary Therapies in Medicine.