Department Chairperson

Cheung Kung-Hai Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Chair Professor

Chief of Esophageal and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

Department of Surgery

School of Clinical Medicine

LKS Faculty of Medicine

The University of Hong Kong

 

Chief of Service in Department of Surgery

Queen Mary Hospital and Gleneagles Hospital

 

Simon Law graduated with First Class Honors from the University of Cambridge in England and completed his postgraduate training at the Department of Surgery at The University of Hong Kong. He is currently the Department Chairperson, Cheung Kung-Hai Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Chair Professor, and Chief of Esophageal and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery at the Department of Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine, The University of Hong Kong. In addition, he serves as Chief of Service in Surgery at Queen Mary Hospital and Gleneagles Hospital in Hong Kong.

Throughout his career, Professor Law has specialized in benign and malignant disorders of the upper gastrointestinal tract, with particular focus on esophageal and gastric cancers, motility disorders, and gastroesophageal reflux disease. He has developed expertise in a range of endoscopic diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for foregut diseases, as well as surgical approaches including minimally invasive and robot-assisted procedures. His work also encompasses multimodal treatments for esophageal and gastric cancers.

Beyond his clinical practice, Professor Law has been actively involved in numerous professional organizations in Hong Kong. He has served as a council member of the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong, Chairman of the General Surgery Board, and Chief Examiner for the Joint Fellowship Examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and The College of Surgeons of Hong Kong. He is a past president of the Hong Kong Society of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons and a member of the Education and Accreditation Committee of the Medical Council of Hong Kong.

Professor Law has also played significant roles in international surgical societies. He has served as a Consultant to the International Society of Digestive Surgery (ISDS), Asia Representative on the Member Services Committee of the Society for Surgeons of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT), and Secretary of the Hong Kong-China Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. He was co-chairman of the Education Committee of the International Society of Diseases of the Esophagus (ISDE) and is a past President of the same society. He is an honorary member of the American Surgical Association (ASA), the European Surgical Association (ESA), and the Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand Gastric and Oesophageal Surgery Association.

An accomplished researcher, Professor Law has authored 354 articles and 45 book chapters. He is Associate Editor of Diseases of the Esophagus, and is / has been a member of the editorial board in 15 other journals, including Annals of Surgery and JAMA Surgery. He was Editor of the Year for World Journal of Surgery in 2015. In recognition of his contributions to the field, he has been invited to speak at national and international conferences on more than 400 occasions.