Speakers

Keynote Speakers

                                                                       

   Prof Kenneth M.C. Cheung is Clinical Professor and the Deputy Chief of the Division of Spine Surgery, of the Dept. of Orthopedics and Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong. He obtained his undergraduate medical degree at the Medical College of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, The University of London, UK, in 1987. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1991, and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in 1995. After returning to Hong Kong from the UK in 1992, he pursued both a clinical career in Spinal Surgery, as well as a research career culminating in the award of an MD from The University of Hong Kong in 2007.

His research interests are in intervertebral disc degeneration and regeneration, and the development of novel surgical implants using shape memory technologies. He has been invited as visiting professor and speaker on multiple occasions to international meetings to lecture on these topics, and has published extensively in top scientific and spine journals.

He has over 160 publications in international peer reviewed journals and 8 book chapters. He holds 13 patents and has 14 personal awards for research excellence, as well as 21 additional awards by his research team members. Notable in 2008, he received the Henry Farfan Award from the North American Spine Society for his outstanding contributions in spine related basic science research; and in 2010, he received the prestigious ISSLS prize from the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine. He has secured multiple research grants from local, regional and international granting bodies totaling over US$3 million.

Professor Cheung sits on the editorial board of top spine and orthopedic research journals such as Spine, European Spine Journal, European Cells and Materials, Journal of Orthopedic Research, International Orthopedics and Orthopedics. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Scoliosis Research Society, he is the past Chairman of the AOSpine Research Commission, coordinating research on a global level for AOSpine, and is the Organizing Chairman of the World Forum for Spine Research 2010 in Montreal.