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Professor Lam, Cindy Lo Kuen 林露娟
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Chief of Research
Clinical Professor
Professor and Head
Danny D B Ho Professor in Family Medicine
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Professor Lam, Cindy Lo Kuen 林露娟
Title:
Chief of Research
Clinical Professor
Professor and Head
Danny D B Ho Professor in Family Medicine
Department:
Faculty:
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Also Cited As:
Lam, Lo-kuen, Cindy
Lam, C
Biography
Cindy graduated with the M.B.B.S. degree with distinctions in physiology and pharmacology from the University of Hong Kong in 1981. She was awarded the best female medical graduate by the HKU Alumni Association in 1981. She was nominated a Fellow of the RCGP and Foundation Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in 1993. She obtained her M.D. from the University of Hong Kong in 2003. She was awarded Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Family Physicians in 2011. She received the Danny D B Ho Endowed Professorship in Family Medicine in 2012.
Honours, Awards & Prizes
| Awardees | Award Date | Honours / Awards / Prizes | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
Yau, Y Cheung, AKC Ng, HF | 2007-03-01 | Best Paper Award - for a paper titled "A survey of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) in private apartment buildings in Hong Kong: preliminary results": Ministry of Construction, PRC | Research Achievement |
| 2009-10-01 | 2010 Research Output Prize (Faculty of Architecture): University Research Committee, The University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2012-10-01 | Winner of Best Student Poster Presentation Award on "Assessing the Measurement Invariance of the Functional Assessment of Cancer therapy-colorectal Quality of Life Instrument between Self- and Interviewer-Administration": 19th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research, Budapest, Hungary | Research Achievement | |
Chan, P | 2010-10-01 | Winner of Best Student Oral Presentation Award on "A Pilot Study on Validation of Traditional Chinese FACT-C on Patients with Colorectal Neoplasm": 17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research, London, United Kingdom | Research Achievement |
| 2013-06-01 | Best Poster Presentation Award: "The Use of HbA1c Improved Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus among At-Risk
Individuals in the Community Setting in Hong Kong": Hong Kong Primary Care Conference 2013 | Research Achievement | |
Chiu, BCF Chan, TY | 2013-06-01 | Best Oral Presentation: Hong Kong Primary Care Confernece | Research Achievement |
| 2013-08-21 | Diabetes Risk Score smartphone application (DRS app): its application in diabetes prevention and health education: Knowledge Exchange (KE) Fund Exercise 2013/14 – Impact Project, UGC | Research Achievement | |
| 2014-11-01 | Best Poster Award on "Health-related Quality of Life of Patients with Colorectal Neoplasm and Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Colorectal Cancer Screening in Hong Kong": Health Research Symposium 2014 | Research Achievement | |
| 2015-06-01 | Best Trainee Research Paper Award: "Which test to pick for detecting diabetes mellitus among Chinese patients with impaired fasting glucose: OGTT, FG or HbA1c?": Hong Kong Primary Care Conference 2015 | Research Achievement | |
| 2012-01-01 | Finalist Best Oral Presentation: Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference | Research Achievement | |
Chiu, BCF Chan, TY | 2014-05-01 | Oral Merit Award: WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference | Research Achievement |
| 2015-05-01 | Best Research Paper Award 2014: "Can HbA1c replace OGTT for the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus among Chinese patients with impaired fasting glucose?": Hong Kong College of Family Physicians | Research Achievement | |
Guo, Y Ho, SY | 2016-06-01 | Best Oral Presentation Award: "Not all patients with impaired fasting glucoase require the same management - development of a nomogram for predicting regression from impaired fasting glucose to normoglycaemia for primary care patients in Hong Kong": Hong Kong Primary Care Conference 2016 | Research Achievement |
JIAO, Fangfang WAN, Yuk Fai Chan, KH Chan, KC | 2015-12-01 | Best Poster Award for Students: ~/The 6th Hong Kong International Nursing Forum, 10-11 December 2015~~ | Research Achievement |
Ng, CW | 2017-09-01 | Best Research Paper Award: Hong Kong College of Family Physicians (HKCFP) 40th Anniversary Conference 2017 | Research Achievement |
Guo, Y Ho, SY | 2017-06-01 | The Best Poster: "Association between moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and cardiovascular disease risk in Chinese primary care patients with impaired fasting glucose": 22nd WONCA Europe Conference 2017 | Research Achievement |
| 2017-11-01 | Best Poster Award: WONCA | Research Achievement | |
| 2017-12-01 | HKCFP Award for Best Research 2016: Hong Kong College of Family Physicians (HKCFP) | Research Achievement | |
Chan, KH Jiao, F | 2018-10-01 | Distinguished Research Making Family Medicine Shine Award and Best Contribution to Family Medicine Award, for paper: “E.Y.F. Wan, C.S.C. Fung, F.F. Jiao, E.Y.T. Yu*, W.Y.Chin, D.Y.T. Fong, C.K.H. Wong, A.K.C. Chan, K.H.Y. Chan, R.L.P. Kwok, C.L.K. Lam. 5-year effectiveness of the Multi-disciplinary Risk Assessment and Management Programme for primary care patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (RAMP-DM) on DM-related complications and health service utilizations – A Population-based and Propensity-matched Cohort Study. Diabetes Care. 2018; 41:49-59: WONCA World Conference 2018 | Research Achievement |
Chan, KH Jiao, F Chan, KC | 2019-08-01 | Outstanding Research Output Award for "5-year effectiveness of the multi-disciplinary Risk Assessment and Management Programme for primary care patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (RAMP-DM) on DM-related complications and health service utilization - A population-based and propensity-matched cohort study": LKS Faculty of Medicine, HKU | Research Achievement |
Chao, VKD Tsui, WSW Chan, KC Tang, HM Liu, SNK Chan, KH | 2019-06-01 | The HKCFP Best Research Award 2018 for "5-year effectiveness of the multi-disciplinary Risk Assessment and Management Programme for primary care patients with hypertension (RAMP-HT) on HT-related complications and health service utilization - A population-based matched cohort study": The Hong Kong College of Family Physicians | Research Achievement |
Tang, HM | 2019-06-01 | Best Poster Presentation Award 1st Prize for "Impact of lifestyle on Allostatic Load of the Hong Kong Population": 7th Asia Pacific Primary Care Research Conference | Research Achievement |
Tang, HM | 2019-12-01 | Full Research Paper Competition – Best Research Paper Award for "Burden of chronic kidney and cardiovascular diseases on life expectancy and health service utilization - A cohort study of Hong Kong Chinese hypertensive patients": 4th AMM-AMS-HKAM Tripartite Congress cum 53rd Singapore-Malaysia Congress of Medicine & Hong Kong Primary Care Conference 2019 | Research Achievement |
| 2020-09-01 | Best Oral Presentation Award for the Free Paper Competition of the Hong Kong Primary Care Conference 2020 "2020 Vision: Health for All": The Hong Kong College of Family Physicians | Others | |
Chan, KS Wang, Y Fung, WT Mak, IL | 2020-09-01 | Best Research Paper Award for "Is chronic kidney disease equally important as cardiovascular disease in 3 million
adults? A 10-year retrospective cohort study.": Hong Kong Primary Care Conference 2020 | Research Achievement |
Wang, Y Chung, PPW Fung, WT | 2020-06-01 | HKCFP Best Research Award 2019 for the paper " Relative importance, healthy life-year lost and population attributable risk of modifiable risk factors on cardiovascular disease in a 10-year Diabetes Cohort.: Hong Kong College of Family Physicians (HKCFP) | Research Achievement |
Tang, HM Mak, IL | 2021-07-01 | Best Oral Presentation Award for the paper titled "Estimated lifetime cost-effectiveness of the Risk Assessment and Management Programme for primary care patients with Hypertension (RAMP-HT)": Hong Kong Primary Care Conference 2021 | Research Achievement |
LIU, Sze Nga Yeung, CHN Mak, IL | 2021-07-01 | Outstanding Poster Presentation Award for the paper titled "Relationship between perceived stress, health-related quality of life and physiological dysregulations among Hong Kong parents from low-income families": Hong Kong Primary Care Conference 2021 | Research Achievement |
LIU, Sze Nga Yeung, CHN Mak, IL | 2021-06-01 | HKCFP Best Research Award 2020 For the paper titled "Parental depression mediates the relationship between parental stress and child health among low-income families": Hong Kong College of Family Physicians | Research Achievement |
LIU, Sze Nga Bedford, LE Yeung, MHY | 2021-07-01 | Outstanding Poster Presentation Award:
Family barriers and facilitators to promote healthy eating among adolescents – A systematic review of qualitative studies.: Hong Kong Primary Care Conference 2021 | Research Achievement |
DONG, Weinan TANG, Ho Man Bedford, LE Mak, IL | 2022-03-01 | The HKCFP Best Research Award 2021. Project title ' Non‐laboratory‐based Risk Assessment Model for Case Detection of Diabetes Mellitus and Pre‐diabetes in Primary Care '.: Journal of Diabetes Investigation ISSN: 2040-1116 ; eISSN: 2040-1124 | Research Achievement |
Liu, SNK Yeung, CHN Mak, IL | 2021-07-01 | Outstanding Poster Award for "Relationship between parental stress, health-related quality of life and physiological dysregulation among Hong Kong parents from low-income families": Hong Kong College of Family Physicians | Research Achievement |
Lauder, IJ Chi, I | 1995-07-01 | The HKCFP Best Research Award 1994 for a Study on "Community Attitudes to Institutional Care of the Aged in Hong Kong.": The Hong Kong College of Family Physicians | Research Achievement |
Lauder, IJ | 2004-03-01 | 2003 Hong Kong College of Family Physicians Best Research Award for a Sttudy on " Impact of Chronic Diseases on Health Services and Quality of Life of a Chinese Population"..: Hong Kong College of Family Physicians | Research Achievement |
CHEUNG, Kwun Ting Tse, MA Lancaster, BJ | 2011-11-01 | HEPA program: An health enhancement program for older adults (Best Paper Award): The 8th World Congress on Long Term Care in Chinese Communities and Asian Ageing Development Conference | Research Achievement |
CHOI, Pui Hang | 2013-11-23 | First Place Poster Presentation: 2nd NUS-NUH International Nursing Conference & 18th Singapore-Malaysia Nursing Conference | Research Achievement |
CHOI, Pui Hang | 2014-08-31 | Young Researcher Scholarships: 2014 Asian Chinese Quality of Life Conference cum Inauguration of the World Association for Chinese Quality of Life | Research Achievement |
Lee, WHP Wong, WSGJ Chiu, BCF | 2014-05-01 | Best Research Award 2013: Hong Kong College of Family Physicians | Research Achievement |
CHOI, Pui Hang | 2016-06-01 | Best Poster Award: ~/Hong Kong Primary Care Conference 2016 ~~ | Research Achievement |
Chen, Q Liu, R | 2018-09-01 | 2017年度优秀论文三等奖 for paper “劉瑞紅, 林露娟, 李卓, 陳慶奇, 賈亦真, 黃志威. 綜合醫院全科門診患者自強能力及關因素調查分析. (Patient enablement and its related factors in family medicine clinic of a general hospital.) 中國全科醫師雜志 ( Clin J Gen Practice) 2017; 16 (9): 681-86: 中华医学会《中华全科医师杂志》 | Research Achievement |
LIU, Sze Nga Au, CH Bedford, LE | 2020-09-01 | Best Poster Presentation Award for "Adolescents Follow the Healthy Dietary Habit of Parents.": Hong Kong Primary Care Conference | Research Achievement |
WU, Tingting Wei, YY | 2021-03-01 | Young Investigator Award (ePoster Presentation), Effects of Bariatric Surgery, SGLT2 Inhibitors, GLP1 Receptor Agonists, and DPP4 Inhibitors on Glycemic Control and All-Cause Mortality: A Network Meta-Analysis: 15th International Symposium on Healthy Aging “Towards Enduring Youth”, 13-14 March 2021 | Research Achievement |
DONG, Weinan WU, Tingting Tang, HM Bedford, LE | 2021-07-01 | Award Winning Posters for "Unintentional Injury and Its Associated factors Among the Hong Kong General Population": 8th Asia Pacific Primary Care Research Conference 2021 | Research Achievement |
| 2021-11-01 | 10th Health and Medical Research Fund Anniversary Award for "A Study on Health-related Quality of Life of Patients with Colorectal Neoplasm and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Colorectal Cancer Screening in Hong Kong": Food & Health Bureau, the Government of the Hong Kong SAR | Research Achievement | |
| 2010-07-01 | Justice of the Peace: Government of the HKSAR | Others | |
| 2018-07-01 | The Medal of Honour: Government of the HKSAR | Others | |
WONG, Wendy | 2008-05-18 | Presentation award from the scholarship of the Hong Kong society of quality of life on "Did the Chinese Quality of Life Instrument applicable to Western medicine health services in Chinese population?: 2008 Asian Chinese Quality of Life Conference | Research Achievement |
| 2012-04-01 | Danny D. B. Ho Professorship in Family Medicine: The University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2010-07-01 | Justice Of The Peace: The Government of the HKSAR | Others | |
CHOI, Pui Hang | 2013-11-01 | First prize poster competition: 2nd NUS-NUH International Nursing Conference & 18th Singapore-Malaysia Nursing Conference | Research Achievement |
| 2006-05-01 | 17th Dr. Sun Yat Sen Oration on " Life is Short, Art is Long": The Hong Kong College of Family Physicians | Research Achievement | |
| 2011-05-01 | Honorary Fellow: Hong Kong College of Family Physicians | Others | |
| 2006-11-01 | Faculty Teaching Medal: Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong | Teaching Accomplishment | |
Chan, TY | 2014-11-01 | Distinguished Paper Award: North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) | Research Achievement |
| 2017-06-01 | Excellent Research Award, Health Research Symposium 2017: Health and Medical Research Fund, Food & Health Bureau, the Government of HKSAR | Research Achievement |
Professional Societies
| Term Period | Position | Professional Societies |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-2021 | Associate Editor | Family Practice-International Journal, OUP |
| 2004 -2011 | Scientific member | IRB, HKU/HA HKW Cluster |
| 1995 - | Member, International Editorial Board | Family Practice, Oxford University Press |
| 2001 -2010 | Member, International Editorial Board | Biomed Central Medical Education |
| 1998-2007 | Member, International Editorial Board | Medical Education Journal, , Blackwell Science Ltd., U.K. |
| 2004-2021 | Member, Working Party on Research | World Organization of Family Doctors |
| 2003-2021 | Advisor, Research Committee | Hong Kong College of Family Physicians |
| 1992- | Examiner | Hong Kong College of Family Physicians |
| 1991- | Clinical Supervisor of Vocational Training in Family Medicine | Hong Kong College of Family Physicians |
| 2003-2017 | Censor | Hong Kong College of Family Physicians |
| 2004 -2010 | Member, Editorial Board, | BMJ (Chinese Edition), Chinese Medical Association, China. |
| 2001 -2015 | Member, International Editorial Board | Biomed Central Family Practice |
| 2008-2011 | Hon Professor | HKU Family Institute, the University of Hong Kong |
| 2016-2010 | Asia Pacific Chair, Working Party for Mental Health | World Organization of Family Doctors |
| 2015-2019 | Section Editor | Biomed Central Family Practice |