Pathology

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Researchers

Haematopathology

• Dr Jason SO, Chief of Service
• Dr Vivian LI, Associate Consultant (ORCID)

Chemical Pathology

• Dr Chloe MAK Miu, Consultant
• Dr Toby CHAN Chun-hei, Associate Consultant
• Dr Matthew YEUNG Chun-wing, Associate Consultant
• Dr Felicite SONG, Resident
• Mr KY YUET, Scientific Officer (Medical)
• Dr Toby LAU, Scientific Officer (Medical)
• Dr Freons YEUNG, Scientific Officer (Medical)
• Dr Timothy HO, Scientific Officer (Medical)

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

• Dr Sally WONG Cheuk-ying, Consultant
• Dr LUNG David Christopher, Consultant
• Dr Garnet CHOI Kwan-yue, Scientific Officer (Medical)
• Dr Atalie TSE Ching-yee, Resident

Newborn Screening

• Dr Chloe MAK Miu, Consultant
• Dr Toby CHAN Chun-hei, Associate Consultant
• Dr Matthew YEUNG Chun-wing, Associate Consultant
• Dr Felicite SONG, Resident
• Dr Toby LAU, Scientific Officer (Medical)
• Dr Freons YEUNG, Scientific Officer (Medical)
• Dr Timothy HO, Scientific Officer (Medical)

Research Areas

Haematopathology

• Genetic diagnosis and minimal residual disease monitoring of paediatric lymphoblastic leukaemias and acute myeloid leukaemias
• Phenotypic and genotypic studies on hereditary blood disorders
• Evaluation of thrombomodulin in the prediction and diagnosis of haematopoietic stem cell transplant-related complications in children
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of immature platelet fraction (IPF) as a screening tool to enhance NGS pre-test probability in diagnosing hereditary thrombocytopenias
• Flow cytometry studies on paediatric blood diseases
• Novel approaches to cell therapy in paediatric cancers

▲ Laboratory processing for cell therapy

▲ Genetic analysis of blood diseases

Chemical Pathology

• Establishing paediatric continuous reference intervals of alkaline phosphatase and creatinine using the indirect method in Hong Kong
• Evaluating performance between Friedewald, Martin-Hopkins, Sampson-NIH Equations and direct LDL-cholesterol measurement
• Enzyme panel testing for lysosomal storage diseases
• Wilson disease screening
• Maternal phenylketonuria as a preventable cause of congenital heart diseases
• Computer-assisted patient identification tool in inborn errors of metabolism
• Optimizing clinical roster: Assessing the effectiveness of mathematical programming in healthcare scheduling
• Case studies on the use of conjugated and delta bilirubin in neonatal jaundice

▲ Autopuncher for punching of dried blood spot card samples for newborn screening and disease screening

▲ Automatic chemistry analyzer for mitochondrial enzyme activity measurement

▲ Mass spectrometry platform for quantitative analysis of biological specimens

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

• Emerging and re-emerging pathogens
• Genomic surveillance
• Outbreak investigation
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Infections in immunocompromised hosts

▲ Next generation and third-generation sequencers for microbial whole genome sequencing