IFCC Executive Board: 2009-2011 Biographies
Prof. Christopher W.K. LAM, Vice-President
Vice-President
Christopher W.K. LAM
Department of Chemical Pathology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prince of Wales Hospital
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
Tel: + 852 2632 2332
Fax: + 852 2636 5090
Email: waikeilam@cuhk.edu.hk
Christopher Lam is Chairman and Chief of
Service of the Department of Chemical Pathology, Director of the
Clinical Immunology Unit, and Assistant Dean of Medicine (Research)
at the 1,400-bed Prince of Wales Hospital, the Chinese University
of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
He has been President of the Asian and Pacific Federation of
Clinical Biochemistry (APFCB, 2000-2004), and Executive Board
member of IFCC (1999-2005). His honorary appointments and
travelling lectureships include (1) Visiting Professor of Clinical
Biochemistry for the People's Liberation Army General Hospital and
Postgraduate Medical School, Beijing, China (since 2000), (2)
Visiting Professor in Laboratory Medicine at the Chongqing Medical
University, Chongqing, China (since 2000), (3) Roman Travelling
Lecturer of the Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemists
(AACB, 2002), (4) APFCB Travelling Lecturer (2005-2006), and (5)
IFCC Visiting Lecturer to Croatia, Hungary and the Czech Republic
(2008).
Professor Lam served as the Asian-Pacific Editor of the European
journal Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine from 2006 to
2007, and has been an advisor of the Clinical Laboratory
Science Institute (CLSI), USA (since 2005). He was elected Honorary
Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, UK in 2006, awarded
the APFCBDistinguished Service Medal in 2007, and conferred the
IFCC Distinguished Award for Laboratory Medicine and Patient Care
in 2008.
At work in Hong Kong Professor Lam fulfils a tripartite
responsibility in teaching medical students, directing ahospital
laboratory service, and participating in research.
He has published over 380 peer-reviewed papers in allergy and
clinical immunology, lipidology, nephrology, endocrinology, and
other aspects of chemical pathology including the laboratory
medicine of emerging infectious diseases. Over recent years, his
research interest has focused on aberrations of cytokines and
chemokines and intracellular signalling in chronic diseases and
acute infections, and the application of such new knowledge of
immunopathology in clinical medicine and therapeutics.