Chuang Shuk-kwan

Chuang Shuk-kwan JP (張竹君), born 1967 in Hong Kong, is a doctor specialising in Public Health Medicine, and is head of the Communicable Disease Branch of the Centre for Health Protection in Hong Kong. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong in 1991. She joined Hong Kong Department of Health in 1993, and started working in Centre for Health Protection in 2004. In January 2020, she hosted a press conference to explain to the public about the COVID-19 epidemic and since then has been one of the main Hong Kong government officials handling the pandemic.[1]

Chuang Shuk-kwan
JP
張竹君
Dr Chuang at a press conference in 2020
HKSAR Health Department
Head of Communicable Disease Branch
Personal details
Born1967 (age 54–55)
Hong Kong
NationalityHong Kong Chinese
Children2 daughters
Education

Education

Chuang studied at Tsuen Wan Government Secondary School and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong in 1991. Since then, she has obtained a number of degrees and professional qualifications, including Royal College of Physicians London, UK, Diploma in Paediatrics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Master of Preventive Medicine, Royal College of Physicians Academician of Public Health, Fellow of Hong Kong College of Community Medicine and Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.[2] Chuang has worked in the Department of Health for more than 20 years. In the early days of the CHP in 2004, she served as the chief social medicine doctor and the chief doctor of the Surveillance and Epidemiology Division. She was later promoted to a consultant doctor in 2007.[3]

Family

Chuang and her husband Yu Ngok Fung, Charles (余岳鋒) had two daughters together.[4]

Chuang is a devout Christian.[5][6] Her husband was an oral and maxillofacial dentist. He was found to have brain tumor in the late 2010s and underwent multiple operations. In 2020, he was admitted to the Prince of Wales Hospital for brain surgery.[7][8] On December 6, 2020, Yu died of brain cancer at Prince of Wales Hospital.[9]

References
  1. The Public Face of the Coronavirus Fight, EJ Insight 6 May 2020
  2. "衞生防護中心傳染病處介紹". 衞生署衞生防護中心. Archived from the original on 2019-11-10. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  3. 李八方 (2007-03-06). "醫生女主播上位" (in Chinese). 蘋果日報. Archived from the original on 2020-12-08. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  4. "【有心醫生夫婦】張竹君丈夫病逝 同為醫生熱心助人 教友、病人惋惜稱許「大好人」". 眾新聞. 2020-12-07. Archived from the original on 2020-12-13. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
  5. 張竹君丈夫病逝　教友病人惋惜稱許「大好人
  6. 三位同名同姓的──張竹君醫生
  7. "夫腦瘤命危 張竹君連月奔波威院". 蘋果日報. 2020-11-01. Archived from the original on 2020-12-13. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  8. "消息指張竹君丈夫病重　威院深切治療部留醫". 香港01. 2020-11-01. Archived from the original on 2020-11-07. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  9. "張竹君丈夫醫生不敵腦癌 搏鬥1年病逝". 蘋果日報. 2020-12-06. Archived from the original on 2020-12-06. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
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