2018-04-23

Dr. Eddie Chui Shiu-Hon receives the Distinguished Alumni Award
Dr. Eddie Chui is Chief Executive Officer of Diagnostix Group. He
graduated from the Department of Chemistry of Hong Kong Baptist College,
obtained a Master’s degree in Analytical Biochemistry from University
of Dundee, UK, a Doctoral degree in Clinical Biochemistry from The
Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Doctoral degree in Traditional
Chinese Medicine from Hong Kong Baptist University. He is a Fellow of
the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, UK; Fellow, Chartered Chemist and
Chartered Scientist of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK; Registered
Part I Medical Laboratory Technologist of Hong Kong Medical Laboratory
Technologists Board, accredited Clinical Biochemist of Hong Kong Society
of Clinical Chemistry and registered Chinese Medicine Practitioner,
among other titles.
Dr. Chui taught at the Department of Health Sciences of the Hong Kong
Polytechnic prior to establishing the Diagnsotix Group, the first
private clinical laboratory in Hong Kong accredited by NATA and RCPA of
Australia. Later he set up a Chinese medicine clinic, Modern TCM and was
invited to establish the first NATA-accredited clinical laboratory in
Macau. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Health
Sciences at Macau University of Science and Technology, Deputy Director
of Macau Institute for Applied Research in Medicine and Health, and
honorary member of Oncology Group of Chinese Medicine Expert Committee
of the Association of Medical and Health Exchanges across the Taiwan
Strait.
Dr. Chui plays an active role in serving the community. He is the
President of the Association of Hong Kong Health Care Professionals and
leads the Association to provide health and medical care services in
poor rural areas in Mainland China. He is also a guest host of a radio
programme which educates the public on ways to maintain good health from
Chinese and Western medicine perspectives. In recent years, he has been
making house calls to provide free Chinese medicine consultations for
older adults who live alone.
Founder of the alumni association Baptist Chemists, Dr Chiu is a
Director of the HKBU Foundation. He was also an Honorary Research Fellow
of the Institute for the Advancement of Chinese Medicine, a member of
the Faculty of Science Advisory Committee and Visiting Lecturer of the
Master of Social Work programme of HKBU. He also served as Member of the
Board of Studies of the School of Chinese Medicine, The University of
Hong Kong; Member of Internal Validation Panel, HKU SPACE; Member of the
Animal Ethics Committee, The Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology; Member of Clinical Research Ethics Committee, Macau
University of Science and Technology; and as professional and academic
adviser of several unions, neighborhood associations, patient
organisations as well as professional and academic associations.
Dr. Chui has published 10 books. He is also an academic adviser to
several traditional Chinese medicine magazines and websites, and his
clinical research papers have been published in international medical
journals. He was also a field supervisor of Master’s degree students at
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and The Chinese University of Hong
Kong.