Name: Gary WK Wong  

BMSc (Alta), MD (Alta), MD (CUHK), FRCPC, FHKAM(Paed Pulmonology)

Current Post: TS Lo Foundation Professor of Paediatrics and honorary consultant, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Professor Gary Wong obtained his undergraduate medical education from the University of Alberta, Canada. He subsequently received fellowship training at University of British Columbia, and Children’s Hospital of British Columbia and visiting Fellowship at the Children’s Hospital at Munich, Germany. Prof Wong’s main research interests are treatment, control and prevention of respiratory disorders including asthma, wheezing disorder and respiratory infections in children. He has published over 350 indexed original research articles and review articles in his field. He is the immediate Past President of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Pediatric Allergy, Respirology and Immunology (APAPARI). He has been one of the Board of Directors of the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) and one of the GINA Assembly members since 2008. He is one of the steering committee members of the ISAAC (International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood) research group. Among other duties within many editorial boards, he is also an associate editor of New England Journal of Medicine.