Professor Yuen is now the Chair Professor of The University of Hong Kong and Li Shu Fan Medical Foundation Professor in Medicine, and the Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. He obtained his first bachelor’s degree of medicine in 1992. He further pursued his academic excellence through the achievement of obtaining three doctoral degrees including Doctor of Medicine with Sir Patrick Manson Gold Medal in 2001, Doctor of Philosophy in 2005 and Doctor of Science in 2017. Professor Yuen's research interests include prevention, natural history, serology, virology and treatment of chronic hepatitis B and C, and hepatocellular carcinoma.
He is one of the top internationally renowned researchers in the field of hepatitis B disease. He has now published more than 580 papers in world-renowned medical journals including New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Nature Medicine, Lancet Infectious Diseases and Lancet Oncology. He has delivered more than 340 lectures all over the world.
Professor Yuen is now leading most of the international trials examining new drugs including antiviral and immunomodulatory agents for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B. He is also actively performing cutting-edge research on novel markers for hepatitis B infection and occult hepatitis B infection. With all these international academic and professional achievements, Professor Yuen is an invited member serving as key opinion leader for several international coalition committees including the International Coalition to Eliminate HBV (ICE-HEP) and Coalition to Eradicate Viral Hepatitis in Asia Pacific (CEVHAP) on hepatitis B disease. He is also serving as a member of Asia Pacific (APAC) Liver Disease Alliance and a member of Advisory Council of The Hepatitis Fund of a Swiss-based foundation.
