Pak Cheong HO Consultant of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Prince of Wales Hospital

Dr. PC Ho graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1987. Ho is the former Chief and currently a Consultant of the Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology in Prince of Wales Hospital, as well as the Clinical Professor (honorary) of the Faculty of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His main research interest is on Hand & Wrist Arthroscopic Surgery. Others include congenital hand differences, rheumatoid hand, paralytic hand reconstruction and microsurgery. Ho was the President of the Hong Kong Society for Surgery of the Hand in 2008-2010. In 2012, he was awarded the Whipple Prize for recognition of his distinguished contribution in wrist arthroscopic surgery. In 2015 he was appointed as the President of the European Wrist Arthroscopy Society (2015-2016) as well as the Founding President of the Asia Pacific Wrist Association (2015-2017). His academic honors included: Overseas Visiting Expert in Orthopaedic Surgery to Singapore in 2012, Moberg Lecturer at the 24th Scandinavian Hand Society Meeting in 2012, Robert A. Chase Visiting Professor to the Stanford University in 2014, Joshi Oration for the Indian Hand Surgery Society in 2015, Invited Lecturer to the 88th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association in 2015, Honored Professor to the Philadelphia Hand Rehabilitation Foundation in 2017 & 2022, Plenary Speaker of 11th APFSSH Congress 2017 in Cebu, International Guest Presenter at Australian Hand Surgery Society ASM in 2021, Buck-Gramcko Lecturer at 62nd Annual Congress of German Hand Surgery Society in 2022 and as the keynote speaker in numerous national hand surgery and orthopaedic societies including Singapore, Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Australia, Argentina, USA, France, Romania, Poland, Estonia and Germany and Portugal since 2002. He has made 151 scientific publications (97 in wrist surgery), taught in 129 cadaveric courses of 26 international centers, and delivered 149 local & 671 international lectures in 107 cities of 38 countries worldwide (including 103 webinars). He is the director of the Hong Kong International Wrist Arthroscopy Workshop and Seminar since 2008.