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David Hui is the Chairman & Stanley Ho Professor of Respiratory Medicine under the Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, in addition to his role as the Director of the Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He undertook undergraduate medical training at the University of New South Wales in 1980-84 followed by postgraduate training in Respiratory & Sleep Medicine in Sydney, Australia. He has joined the CUHK as an academic clinician since 1998 and is based at the Prince of Wales Hospital, HK where a major outbreak of SARS occurred in 2003. Since 2004, he has frequently served as an advisor to the WHO on the clinical management of emerging severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) including avian influenza, pandemic influenza, MERS and COVID-19. He joined urgent WHO missions for the investigation of MERS outbreaks in Riyadh and South Korea in 2013 and 2015 respectively. He has served as an expert advisor to the Chief Executive, HKSAR government on COVID-19 since Jan 2020 and the Chairman of the Scientific Committee on Emerging & Zoonotic Diseases under the Center for Health Protection since Sept 2019. Prof Hui has published well over 350 peer-reviewed journal articles and 24 book chapters. His research interests include the clinical management of SARI, safety of respiratory therapy in the post SARS era, prevention of nosocomial transmission of respiratory infections, and study of ventilation/exhaust design in hospital isolation room.

1. Plenary Session I - COVID-19: Control And Policy - 03 May, 2021