Vivian Wong

Dr Vivian Wong Taam currently serves as an Adviser in Integrative Medicine in the Chinese Medicine Department of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority. A Fellow of four specialty colleges (FRCOG, FFPH, FRCP, FRACMA) she is Hon Professor in School of Chinese Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, Adjunct Professor in School of Chinese Medicine, Baptist University and Department of Computing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is Advisor to the “Good Practice in TCM Research in the Post-genomic Era Consortium” of the European Union and Co-chair, Informatics Group of the Consortium for Globalization of Chinese Medicine. Besides being President of the Hong Kong Association for Integration of Chinese-Western Medicine, she is on the Board of Directors of Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine.

She is the past Chief Executive of the Queen Mary Hospital and Hospital Authority of Hong Kong. Having served as Public Health Specialist in Policy & Research at the World Bank, she has been Consultant to WHO and served as Task Force member in areas such as Safe Motherhood, Primary Health Care and RCT for Evaluation of New Antenatal Care Model.

After training in acupuncture, she started with an RCT on the effectiveness of acupuncture in induction of labor in mid 1970. It was revived with work on the effect of qigong in cancer, diabetes and hypertension and the use of Tai Chi to prevent fall in elderly. With wide research interest from perinatology, haematology to hepatitis B, she has been on editorial boards of 6 journals, and has published 91 peer-reviewed papers and co-edited a book “Challenges of SARS”. She is now steering research, education and knowledge transfer to support collaboration among CM and western medicine practitioners.

Education

• MBBS, FFPH, FRCP, FRCOG, FHKCM The University of Hong Kong

Companies

• Adjunct Professor in School of Chinese Medicine The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2012)
• Hon Professor in SCM, Medical Faculty The University of Hong Kong (2008)
• Hon Advisor, Integrative Medicine Hospital Authority (2011 — 2013)
• Hon Senior Advisor (Integrative Medicine) to the Dean, Medical Faculty The University of Hong Kong (2011 — 2013)