APELS BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Committee Members

• Honorary Consultant in General Surgery, Director of Minimally Invasive & Robotic Surgery Development, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong
• Honorary Consultant in Department of Surgery, Honorary Advisor of HKEC Training Centre for Healthcare Management & Clinical Technology, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong
• Secretary General, The Asian-Pacific Society for Digestive Endoscopy Council Member, Asia Endosu'gery Task Force
• Council Member, International Federation of Societies of Endoscopic Surgeons (IFSES)
• Member of Board of Governors, Society of Endoscopic Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia (ELSA)
• Council Member, Hong Kong Society for Coloproctology
• Council Member, Hong Kong Society of Digestive Endoscopy
• Council Member, Hong Kong Society of M'nimal Access Surgery
• Editorial Board, Annuals of the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong
• Associate Editor, Asian Jounal of Endoscopic Su'gery (AJES)

• President of Oita University, Japan
• Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town, Chang Gung Medical College, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Los Angeles and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
• President, Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery
• President, International Federation of Societies of Endoscopic Surgeons
• Editor In Chief, Journal of Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery
• Editor In Chief, Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research

• Professor, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Member, Management Board, Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Director of Education and Training, Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Director of CUHK Jockey Club Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills Center, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Founding Fellow of the Wu Yee Sun College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Associate Faculty, Division of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Assistant Dean (External Affair), Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Director of CUHK Chow Yuk Ho Technology Center for Innovative Medicine, Hong Kong
• Honorary Consultant, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong
• Yeoh Ghim Seng Visiting Professor, Department of Surgery, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Deputy Director, Department of Standard, The College of Surgeons of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Vice president, Hong Kong Society of Robotic Surgery
• Chairman of the Asian Narrow Band Imaging Group (ANBIG)
• Honorary Treasurer, The College of Surgeons of Hong Kong
• President, Hong Kong Society of Digestive Endoscopy

• Specialist in General Surgery
• Council member, Hong Kong Society of Minimal Access Surgery
• Board Member, Asia Endosurgery Task Force (AETF)
• Council member, Hong Kong Society for Coloproctology
• Founding & council member, Hong Kong Thyroid Society
• Society Representative, The Federation of Medical Societies of Hong Kong
• Managing Editor, Asian Journal of Endoscopic Surgery
• Editorial Board Members, Surgical Practice, The College of Surgeons of Hong Kong
• Editorial Board Members, Techniques in Coloproctology

Board Members

• Assoc. Professor, Chair, Lower GI Cancer Service Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
• Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, St Vincent's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Vice Director, Shunde Women and Children's Hospital Affiliated to Jinan University
• Academic Leader of Gastrointestinal and Anorectal Department, China

• Associate professor
• Associate chief physician, Departments of Gastrointestinal Surgery
• Secretary for Colorectal Cancer Research Center, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University Medical Center

• Assistant Hospital Chief Executive, The University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital
• Chief of Service, Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital
• Director, Clinical Skills Simulation Training Centre, The University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital
• Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong
• Deputy Director, Surgical Skills Centre, Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong
• Director, IT Service, Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong
• Honorary Consultant, Department of Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital

• Professor, Division of Colorectal Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Honorary Consultant, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong
• Associate Member, Cancer and Inflammation, School of Biomedical Sciences, CUHK, Hong Kong
• Member, Management Committee, Institute of Digestive Disease, CUHK, Hong Kong
• Clinical Quality Manager, Department of Surgery. Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong
• Editor, Surgical Practice

• Chair, Centre Of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Surgery, Gem Hospital and Research Centre, Coimbatore, India
• Director, Gem Hospital and Research Centre, Coimbatore, India
• Founder President, Association of Minimal Access Surgeon of India

• Executive Committee Member of ACRSI (Association of Colo-Rectal Society of India)
• Executive Committee Member of !AGES (Indian Association of Gastro-Endo Surgeon)
• Secretary of ASI Maharastra Chapter (Association of Surgeons of India)

• Director, Chief of Surgical Gastroenterology & Minimally Invasive Surgery
• Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India
• Asian Health Care Foundation, Hyderabad, India
• Asian Institute of Basic Sciences & Research, Hyd., India
• President, Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy of India

• President Director, Gading Pluit Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia
• President, Indonesian Hernia Society (IHS)
• Vice President, Asian Society of Cryosurgery
• Board Member, Asia Endosurgery Task Force
• Executive Committee, Indonesian Surgeon Association (ISA)
• Founding Member and Former President, Asia-Pacific Hernia Society (APHS)
• Governor and Former Vice President, Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia (ELSA)
• Founding Member, Asia-Pacific Metabolic & Briatric Surgery Society (APMBSS)
• Founding Member, Indonesian Coloproctology Society (ICS)

• Fellow of the Japanese College of Surgeons (JCS)
• Director of Japanese Society for Treatment of Obesity (JSTO)
• Director of Japanese College of Surgeons (JCS)
• Councilor of Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery (JSES)
• Councilor of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery (JSGS)
• Councilor of Japan Surgical Association (JSA)
• Councilor of the Japan Esophageal Society (JES)
• Member executive committee of Asia-Pacific Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery Society

• 1988 Recipient Masutani award, Kanazawa Medical University
• 2008 Ohgami award, Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery

• Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University, School of Medicine, Japan
• Clinical Investigations, (Upper GI Surgery), Molecular Analysis of GI Cancer Endoscopic surgery

• Head of Colorectal Division, Korea University Anam Hospital, Korea
• Professor, Department of Surgery, Korea University Anam Hospital, Korea
• Member of IT Committee, Korean Society of Cdoproctology

• Professor, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
• Previous Director, Minimal Access and Robotic Surgery Center, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
• Director, Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Korea
• President, the Korean Society of Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons
• Governor, Endoscopic and Laparoscopic of Asia

• Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, Korea
• Editor-in chief , Journal of Minimally invasive Surgery
• Committee Chair, Scientific Committee of the Korean Society of Coloproctology
• Scientific Chair, Korean Society of Surgical Site Infection
• Member, Korean Colorectal Cancer Guideline Committee
• Editorial member, Journal of Korean Medical Science (JKMS), Journal of American College of Surgeons (JACS), Asian Journal of Surgery and Disease of the Colon and Rectum

• Consultant, Bariatric and Minimal Access Surgeon, Ministry of Health Malaysia
• Vice President, Malaysia Hernia Society
• Treasurer, Society of Endolaparoscopic Surgeons Malaysia
• Executive Member, Asia Pacific Hernia Society (APHS)
• Secretary, ELSA 2018, Kuala Lumpur

• Founding Member, Philippine Hernia Society
• Board of Director, Asia Endosurgery Task Force (AETF)
• Editorial Board, Asian Journal of Endoscopic Surgery
• Board of Director, Phil Assoc of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgeons (PALES)
• Treasurer, Philippine Hernia Society
• President, Phil Assoc of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgeons-STC
• Treasurer, PSGS STC
• Vice-President, PSLS STC
• Chairman, Bids and Awards Committee BRH

• Head, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Center, St. Luke’s Medical Center – Global City, The Fort, Taguig City, Philippines
• Head, Minimally Invasive Surgery Unit, Rizal Medical Center, Pasig City, Philippines
• Head, HepatoPancreatoBiliary Surgery Unit, Rizal Medical Center, Pasig City, Philippines
• Assistant Professor, Surgical Endoscopy Department of Surgery, De La Salle University Health Sciences Campus Cavite, Philippines
• Board of Director, Philippines Association of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgeons (PALES)
• Member, Asia Pacific Working Group on NOTES

• Senior Consultant, Division of General Surgery (EnclonnelLaparoscopic)
• Department of Surgery, National University Hospital, Singapore
• Director/Senior Consultant ,Minimally Invasive Surgical Centre, National University Hospital, Singapore
• Director, Tan Sri Khoo Teck Puat Advanced Surgery Training Centre (ASTC), Department of Surgery, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Past-President and Secretary-General, The Endoscopic & Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia (ELSA)
• Founding member and President Elect of the Asia-Pacific Metabolic and Bariatnc Surgery Society
• Founding member and Advisory President of the Asia Pacific Hernia Society (APHS)

• Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Director, LAI Endoscopy & Colorectal Surgery
• Head, Overseas Operations, HC Surgical Specialists
• Board Member, Asia Pacific Endo-Lap Surgery Group (APELS)
• Lifetime Member, Endoscopic and Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia (ELSA)
• Hon. Treasurer, Society of Colorectal Surgeons (Singapore)
• Faculty, DukeNUS Graduate School of Medicine (Surgical Programme)
• Member, Singapore Cancer Society Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month Steering Committee

• Head and Senior Consultant, Department of Surgery in Sengkang General Hospital and Senior Consultant, Department of Colorectal Surgery, Singapore General Hospital (SGH).
• Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
• Adjunct Associate Professor with the Duke-NUS Medical School
• Member of National Trauma Committee (MOH); member, RAC (GS) & JCST Exam Committee (GS) as well as Standard Setting Committee for General Surgery
• Council member in the College of Surgeons, Singapore
• Member of the Academic Medicine Council for Surgery ACP (Clinical)
• Director, Operating Theatre Management Unit; Chairperson for Serious Reportable Events (SRE) Quality Assurance Committee (QAC); and Chairperson of the Research Review Committee in Sengkang General Hospital

• Visiting Consultant, Dept. of Surgery, NUH, Singapore
• Adjunct Associate Professor of Surgery, NUS, Singapore
• Council Member, Singapore Medical Council

• Professor of Surgery, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
• Director of Colorectal Surgery Unit, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

• ASCRS International Fellowship Award of 2007/8, International Council of Coloproctology (ICCP), The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, USA.

• Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkom University, Thailand

• Academic Affairs Lecturer, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery,Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
• Deputy Chairman for Research, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University,Bangkok, Thailand

• Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery Center China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
• Lecture, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
• Chief, Department of Colorectal Surgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

• Founder & Chairman, Hanoi High Tech and Digestive Center (HDC, St Paul Hospital), Hanoi, Vietnam
• Chairman, Colorectal Department HDC, Vietnam
• Professor Honoris Causa, Hanoi Medical University since December 2018
• Pioneer Awards of minimally invasive surgery, American Surgical Society of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy (SAGES) in 2013

• Upper GI surgeon, Deputy Head of GI surgical Department, University Medical Center, Hochiminh city, Vietnam
• Lecturer of GI surgical Department, University of Medicine & Pharmacy of HCM City, Vietnam