Simon LAW
MBBChir (Cantab), MS (HK), PhD (HK), MA, FRCSEd, FCSHK, FHKAM, FACS.
Simon Law graduated from the University of Cambridge in England in 1987 with First Class Honours. He received his post-graduate training at the Department of Surgery at The University of Hong Kong as well as undertaking a fellowship in foregut surgery with Tom DeMeester at the University of Southern California. He is currently Cheung Kung-Hai Professor in Gastrointestinal Surgery, and Chair Professor and Chief of Esophageal and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery at The University of Hong Kong.
Professor Law is a council member of the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong. He served as the Chairman of the General Surgery Board and the Chief Examiner of the Joint Fellowship Examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and The College of Surgeons of Hong Kong. He was also a member of the Training Accreditation Committee of China Programs, responsible for accreditation for surgical training programs in China for the two Colleges. He is past president of the Hong Kong Society of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons and a member of the Education and Accreditation Committee of the Medical Council of Hong Kong. He has been playing an active role in many international societies; such as Executive Council Member of the International Society of Digestive Surgery (ISDS), Asia Representative of the Member Services Committee of the Society for Surgeons of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT). He is the current Secretary of the Hong Kong China Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. He is regularly involved in scientific committees for international congresses. Notably, for international collaborations, he is a member of the World Wide Esophageal Cancer Collaboration and is also involved in the Esophagectomy Complications Consensus Group, an international group of surgeons providing an infrastructure to standardize international data collection for complications after esophagectomy. He is also a member of the Research and Database Committee of the International Society of Diseases of the Esophagus. He is an honorary fellow of the American Surgical Association.
He has concentrated his experience and research in upper gastrointestinal tract disorders, with emphasis on esophageal and gastric cancers, motility disorders and gastroesophageal reflux disease in Asia. He has focused on endoscopic diagnostic and treatment techniques on foregut diseases, the development of the safe use of minimally invasive surgical methods including minimally invasive esophagogastric resections, and multidisciplinary treatments of esophageal and gastric cancers. He has published over 250 articles, including those in Annals of Surgery, Gut, and Nature Genetics. He also has 33 book chapters under his authorship, including those in Mastery of Surgery, Maingot’s Abdominal Operations, Pearson’s Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery and Shackelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. He is associate editor of the Diseases of the Esophagus, and member of the editorial board in 15 other journals, including Annals of Surgery, JAMA Surgery, Surgery, Annals of Surgical Oncology, and World Journal of Surgery. He has been invited as visiting professor and to deliver keynote and plenary lectures worldwide. He has spoken nationally and internationally on over 290 occasions.