Professor Ivan
Fan-Ngai Hung is currently Chair Professor of Medicine, Ru Chien and Helen Lieh
Endowed Professor in Health Sciences Pedagogy, and Associate Dean (Partnership
& Engagement), Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of
Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, and Honorary
Consultant in Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. He is also Chair Professor and
Chief-of-Service of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical
Microbiology at the HKU-Shenzhen Hospital. Professor Hung 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 at the University of Cambridge Medical School and Charing Cross
Hospital, London, he returned to Hong Kong in 1999 and joined the Department of
Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital. He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians
of London and Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America,
and an Advisory Board Member of the Universal Scientific Education & Research
Network (USERN). His research interests includes influenza, SARS-CoV-2, and other
respiratory virus antiviral treatments and vaccinology. He is ranked as an HKU
Scholar in the world’s top 1% in 2013, 2018–2024.