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Dr. LAI Koon Chi, Christopher
MBChB (CUHK), MRCP (UK), PDipID (HKU), FRCPath (UK), FHKCPath, FHKAM (Pathology)

Assistant Professor (Clinical), Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, CUHK

Email: chris.kclai@cuhk.edu.hk
Tel: (852) 3505 1523
ORCID: 0000-0001-8591-5944

Biography

Dr. Christopher Lai is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Department of Microbiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1998. He started his career as a Physician and obtained his MRCP in 2001 before moving on to Clinical Microbiology in 2003. He is a Fellow of Royal College of Pathologists (UK), Hong Kong College of Pathologists and Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.

He is currently Vice president, and Chairman of Education Committee of the Hong Kong College of Pathologist, President of Hong Kong Society for Microbiology and Infection, and Honorary Consultant in CUHK Medical Centre. He has diverse research interests which include the human microbiota, application of advanced diagnostic technologies for infectious diseases, and control of antimicrobial resistant organisms.

Research Interests

• The application of NGS, machine learning and advanced technologies in the diagnosis clinical of infectious diseases
• Clinical, epidemiology, and laboratory diagnosis of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
• The human microbiota and its association with antimicrobial resistant organisms’ carriage, and drug interaction.
• Infection control, hospital epidemiology, and control of antimicrobial resistant organisms

Selected Publications