Philip Chiu Hong Kong, China

Professor Philip Chiu is the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Professor of Robotic Surgery, Director of Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center, and Director of Endoscopy Center, Institute of Digestive Disease of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Chiu graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1994 with two scholarships. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (General Surgery), Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in 2001, and received his Doctor of Medicine from CUHK in 2009. Professor Chiu is a pioneer in minimally invasive procedures, having performed Hong Kong’s first endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for the treatment of early gastrointestinal cancers in 2004, as well as the world’s first robotic gastric ESD and colorectal ESD in 2011 and 2020 respectively. His research interests include esophageal cancer management, minimally invasive and robotic esophagectomy, novel endoscopic technologies for diagnosis of early GI cancers, endoscopic surgery as well as robotics for endoluminal surgery. Professor Chiu has published nearly 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 11 book chapters. Among these, his seminal world’s first robotic colorectal ESD clinical study earned Endoscopy's Most Innovative Paper Award (2024). Other accolades include the State Scientific Technology and Progress Award from the People’s Republic of China (2007), 2nd class award in Technological Advancement, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (2011), Spirit of Hong Kong Award on Innovation (2020), two Gold Medals with Congratulations of Jury at the International Exhibitions of Inventions of Geneva (2019, 2023), Honorary Member of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery (2023) and Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea (2025).