Ivan HUNG is currently Professor and Assistant Dean, Department of Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong and Honorary Consultant in Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong SAR. He is a dual specialist in Infectious Disease and Gastroenterology & Hepatology. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Bristol Medical School, England in 1996. After working in the University of Cambridge Medical School and Charing Cross Hospital, the Imperial College Medical School, London, he returned to Hong Kong in 1999 and joined the Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital. After obtaining his MRCP, he underwent subspecialty training in infectious diseases, followed by gastroenterology and hepatology. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Division of Geographical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, USA. He obtained his M.D. degree from the University of Hong Kong in 2011 and was awarded the Sir Patrick Manson Gold Medal award for best M.D. thesis and the Anti-SARS Gold Badge Award for his contribution in fighting SARS in 2003. He is currently Fellow of Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh.
He has published more than 150 international peer reviewed original articles, including research articles in the Lancet, the Lancet Infectious Diseases and the Clinical Infectious Diseases. He and his team have pioneered the use of topical imiquimod before intradermal influenza vaccination, which results in protection against heterologous nonvaccine and antigenically drifted viruses. His team was also the first to prove convalescent plasma and hyperimmune-IVIG reduced mortality in patients with severe influenza infection in prospective clinical trials. His research interest includes vaccine, innovative treatment of severe influenza and prevention of pneumococcal infection and treatment of resistant Helicobacter pylori infection. He was ranked as top 1% scientists in 2013, with an H-index of 34. He is the Board Member of the World Association for Infectious Diseases and Immunological Disorders (WAidid), member of 8 international advisory boards for vaccine and infectious diseases. He is Section Editor for the BMC Infectious Diseases and editorial board member of the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Journal of Interventional Gastroenterology. He is a regular reviewer for journals including the Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, Vaccine, Clinical Vaccine and Immunology, Endocrine, Clinical Obesity, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Helicobacter, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestion and the Hong Kong Journal of Medicine.
