YEUNG, Chung Kwong
Presidential Chair Professor, Professor (Clinical)
Doctor of Medicine (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Doctor of Philosophy (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (University of Hong Kong)
Professor CK Yeung graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1981 and obtained his MD in 1995 and PhD in 2014 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He obtained Fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1985. He received his overseas training in paediatric urology and liver transplantation at the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and King’s College Hospital in London, respectively, from 1989-1992. He was Professor in Surgery and Chief of Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Urology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1995-2006, Founding Director of the CUHK Jockey Club Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills Centre, Founding Director of the CUHK Children Continence Care Center from 2002-2006 and Assistant Dean of CUHK Faculty of Medicine from 2004-2006.
Professor Yeung is a world-renowned expert in paediatric minimally invasive surgery (MIS), surgical robotics, pediatric urology and children continence care. As Professor and Chief of Paediatric Surgery and Paediatric Urology at CUHK, he invented the minimally invasive pneumovesicoscopic surgical technique under carbon dioxide insufflation that had been successfully applied in a series of world’s first surgeries for complicated bladder, ureteric and bladder neck reconstruction. Professor Yeung also invented the Yeung’s herniotomy hook that was specially designed for laparoscopic hernia repair operations for inguinal hernias in young infants and children. In addition to successfully performing the first live-related paediatric liver transplantation on a 3-year-old girl in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia at the Prince of Wales Hospital in 1993, Professor Yeung has pioneered the development of many other novel laparoscopic techniques for complex reconstructive surgery in infants and children, such as the first laparoscopic excision of choledochal cyst and hepaticojejunostomy, the first Kasai’s portoenterostomy for biliary atresia in Hong Kong and Mainland China, as well as the world’s first subtotal pancreatectomy for infants with persistent hyperinsulinemia.
As Founding Director of the CUHK Jockey Club Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills Center, Professor Yeung was the first surgeon to adopt robotic technologies in Hong Kong and Mainland China for complicated reconstructive surgeries since 1998, and he was also the first surgeon to introduce the da Vinci surgical robot to Hong Kong in 2005. Over the past 25 years Professor Yeung has successfully adopted and promoted the use of robotic assistance as standard practice for complex reconstructive surgeries such as dismembered pyeloplasty for pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction in infants and children. He has also spearheaded large-scale epidemiological studies on Helicobacter pylori infection as well as primary nocturnal enuresis (bed-wetting) and lower urinary tract dysfunctions in the Hong Kong paediatric population, which have been published in high-impact medical journal and have revolutionized our current understanding on the pathophysiology and management of primary nocturnal enuresis (bed-wetting) in children.
As Past President of the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong (CSHK) from 2007-2010, Professor Yeung was instrumental in initiating and establishing accreditation programs for recognized training centers in surgery in Mainland China, jointly with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Over his more than 20-years tenure as office-bearers in CSHK as President, Censor-in-chief, Chairman of Board of Paediatric Surgery and Director in Development, he has been responsible for establishing the surgical training curriculum and Surgical Fellowship Examinations in Hong Kong. Professor Yeung has also been a member of the Panel of Assessors on the Hong Kong Medical Council and the Chief Examiner in Surgery for the Hong Kong Medical Council Licentiate Examination Sub-Committee (1998–2008). Internationally, Professor Yeung is the Founder and Past President of the Asia-Pacific Association of Paediatric Urologists (APAPU), the Past President of the International Paediatric Endosurgery Society (IPEG), the Past President of International Children Continence Society (ICCS), and is a member of over 30 learned international societies.
Professor Yeung has published 180 peer-reviewed scientific articles in international indexed journals (including The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine), delivered over 330 invited lectures and numerous keynote lectures, presented over 250 papers in international conferences, authored 25 book chapters and one book. He is a member of the Editorial Board of many prestigious journals. He is also the chief inventor of 106 granted invention patents internationally and has also filed an additional 66 invention patents in robotics and novel endoscopic surgeries. He has undertaken 40 major research projects with total research grants of HK$109,056,406.00 awarded since 1993. He has been invited to teach as a Visiting Professor at 23 prestigious universities and institutions worldwide (such as Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University) and as an invited speaker at more than 200 national and international meetings. He has also been regularly invited as an expert mentor performing live surgery demonstrations and teaching paediatric MIS skills in numerous international workshops worldwide.
Selected Publications
A. Doctoral Thesis
2. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Thesis. Yeung CK. Bladder-Brain Dialogue. PhD Thesis, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014: 252 pages.
B. Selected Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (limited to 20 representative publications) :
2. Yeung CK, Godley ML, Ho CKW, Duffy PG, Ransley PG, Li AKC. Some new insights into bladder function in infancy. Br J Urol 1995; 76: 235-40.
3. Yeung CK, Godley ML, Dhillon HK, Gordon IG, Duffy PG, Ransley PG. The characteristics of primary vesicoureteric reflux in male and female infants with prenatal hydronephrosis. Br J Urol 1997;80:319-27.
4. Lo DYM, Tein MSC, Pang CCP, Yeung CK, Tong KL, Hjelm NM. Presence of donor-specific DNA in plasma of kidney and liver transplant recipients. Lancet 1998; 351: 1329-30.
5. Yeung CK, Chiu HN, Sit FKY. Bladder dysfunction in children with refractory monosymptomatic primary nocturnal enuresis. J Urol 1999; 162: 1049-55.
6. Yeung CK, Liu KW, Ng WT, Tan HL, Lee KH. Laparoscopy as the investigation and treatment of choice for urinary incontinence caused by small “invisible” dysplastic kidneys with infrasphincteric ureteric ectopia. Br J Urol 1999; 84: 324-8.
7. Zhang J, Tong KL, Li PKT, Chan AYW, Yeung CK, Pang CCP, Wong TYH, Lee KC, Lo YM. Presence of donor- and recipient-derived DNA in cell-free urine samples of renal transplantation recipients: Urinary DNA chimerism. Clin Chem 1999; 45: 1741-6.
8. Sung JJY, Lin SR, Ching JYL, Zhou LY, To KF, Wang RT, Leung WK, Ng EKW, Lau JYW, Lee YT, Yeung CK, Chao W, Chung SSC. Atrophy and intestinal metaplasia one year after cure of Helicobacger pylori infection: a prospective, randomized study. Gastroenterology 2000; 119:7-14.
9. Yeung CK, Sit FKY, To LKC, Chan S, Sihoe JDY, Wong C, Lau J Characteristics of primary nocturnal enuresis in Hong Kong schoolchildren: new insights from a large epidemiological study. BJU Int 2001; 87: 47-9.
10. Yeung CK, Tam YH, Sihoe JDY, Lee KH, Liu KW. Retroperitoneoscopic dismembered pyeloplasty for pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction in infants and children. BJU Int 2001; 87: 509-513.
11. Yeung CK, Sit FKY, To LKC, Chiu HN, Sihoe JDY, Lee E, Wong C.Reduction in nocturnal functional bladder capacity is a common factor in the pathogenesis of refractory nocturnal enuresis. BJU Int 2002;90:302-7.
12. Borzi PA, Yeung CK. Selective approach for transperitoneal and extraperitoneal endoscopic nephrectomy in children. J Urol 2004; 171: 814-6.
13. Yeung CK, Sihoe JDY, Borzi PA. Endoscopic cross-trigonal ureteric reimplantation under carbon dioxide bladder insufflation: a novel technique. J Endourol 2005; 19(3): 295-9.
14. Holcomb GW 3rd, Rothenberg SS, Bax KM, Martinez-Ferro M, Albanese CT, Ostlie DJ, van Der Zee DC, Yeung CK. Thoracoscopic repair of esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula: a multi-institutional analysis. Annals of Surgery 2005; 242: 422-8.
15. Yeung CK, Sreedhar B, JDY Sihoe, Sit FKY. Renal and bladder functional status at diagnosis as predictive factors for the outcome of primary vesicoureteral reflux in children. J Urol 2006; 176: 1152-1157.
16. Yeung CK, Chowdhary SK, Sreedhar B. Minimally Invasive Management for Vesicoureteral Reflux in Infants and Young Children. Clin Perinatol. 2017 Dec;44(4):835-849; DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2017.08.008.
17. Yeung CK, Lam KW, Cheung JLK, Tjokronegoro A, Law JCS, Singh S, Foo CC, Sreedhar B, Xuyen DH. Overcoming abdominal and pelvic cavity workspace constraints in Robotic-assisted NOTES. Journal of Robotics. 2020 May 18, Col 2020, Article ID 8590539, DOI: 10.1155/2020/8590539.
18. Yeung CK, Cheung JL, Sreedhar B. Emerging next-generation robotic colonoscopy systems towards painless colonoscopy. Journal of Digestive Disease 2019 Apr;20(4):196-205. doi: 10.1111/1751-2980.12718.PMID: 30834714.
19. Lui TKL, Hui CKY, Tsui VWM, Cheung KS, Ko MKL, Foo DCC, Mak LY, Yeung CK, Wong SY, Leung WK. New insights on missed colonic lesions during colonoscopy through artificial intelligence-assisted real-time detection (with video). Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 2021 Jan;93(1):193-200.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.gie.2020.04.066.
20. Chan KL, Yeung CK, Lam KW, Cheung JL, Sreedhar B, Ngan HY. Robotic Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery Hysterectomy and Salpingo-Oophorectomy in Porcine Model. Surgical Innovations 2022 Apr;29(2):215-224. doi:10.1177/15533506211018433
