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| Biography |
After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995, Dr Chan joined the Department of Chemical Pathology at Prince of Wales Hospital and pursued specialist training in Chemical Pathology. Since 2001, he has become a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, the Hong Kong College of Pathologists, the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Pathology) and Specialist in Chemical Pathology under the Medical Council of Hong Kong. |
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Dr Chan is actively involved in clinical service, research and teaching. Apart from serving as Duty Biochemist to advise on clinical consultations, he mainly functions as the Unit Coordinator of the Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Quality Manager for laboratory accreditation. At cluster level, he is the Cluster Coordinators in Pathology and Clinical Informatics and chairs the NT East Cluster Point-of-care Testing (POCT) Coordinating Committee, Cluster IT Committee for Pathology Services and Cluster Committee in Clinical Informatics. |
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As Clinical Associate Professor (honorary), Dr Chan also teaches medical students. His main research interests include heavy metals, toxicology, endocrinology, obesity as well as allergy & inflammatory diseases. |
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Selected publications: |
Chan MHM, Chan IHS, Kong APS, Ozaki R, Cheung RCK, Ho CS, Wong GWK, Tong PCY, Chan JCN, Lam CWK. Cold-vapor atomic absorption spectrometry underestimates total mercury in blood and urine compared to inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry: an important factor for determining mercury reference intervals. Pathology 2009; 41: 467-72. |
Chan IHS, Kong APS, Leung TF, Tsui TK, Cheung RC, Osaki R, Ho CS, Wong GW, Wong CK, Lam CW, Chan JC, Chan MHM. Cadmium and lead in Hong Kong school children. Pathology 2012; 44: 626-31. |
Wong CK, Chan MHM, Kwok JSS, Ho CS, Ng PC, Suen SH, Fung KP, Lau CM, Fok TF. Diagnostic tools for detection of intoxication by melamine and its analogue. Hong Kong Med J 2013; 19 Suppl: 12-5. |
Kong APS, Yang X, Luk A, Ma RCW, So WY, Ozaki R, Ting R, Cheung K, Ho CS, Chan MHM, Chow CC, Chan JCN. Severe hypoglycaemia identifies vulnerable patients with type 2 diabetes at risk of premature death and all-site cancer: The Hong Kong Diabetes Registry. Diabetes Care 2014; 37(4):1024-31. |
Wing YK, Zhang JH, Lam J, Shirley BE, Ma RCW, Kong APS, Chan MHM, Ho CS, Li AM. A community-based study on the association between Insomnia and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis: Sex and pubertal influences. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2014; 99(6): 2277-87. |
Apple FS, Jaffe AS, Collinson P, Mockel M, Ordonez-Llanos J, Lindahl B, Hollander J, Plebani M, Than M, Chan MHM; on behalf of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC) Task Force on Clinical Applications of Cardiac Bio-Markers. IFCC educational materials on selected analytical and clinical applications of high sensitivity cardiac troponin assays. Clin Biochem 2015; 48(4-5):201-3. |
Lam HS, Hui LL, Chan MHM, Chan PH, Kwok KM; Chan HIS, Li AM, Fok TF. Impact of fetal and childhood mercury exposure on immune status in children. Environ Res 2016; 144: 66-72. |
Kam RK, Ho CS, Chan MHM. Serum Insulin-like Growth Factor I Quantitation by Mass Spectrometry: Insights for Protein Quantitation with this Technology. eJIFCC 2016 ;27(4):318-30. |
Tam WH, Chan RSM, Chan MHM, Yuen LY, Li L, Sea MMM, Woo J. Moderate iodine deficiency among pregnant women in Hong Kong: revisit the problem after two decades. Hong Kong Med J 2017; 23: 586-93. |
Chan PHY, Chan MHM, Li AM, Cheung RCK, Yu XT, Lam HS. Methylmercury levels in commonly consumed fish and methylmercury exposure of children and women of childbearing age in Hong Kong, a high fish consumption community. Environ Res 2018; 166: 418-26. |
Yuen LY, Chan MHM, Sahota DS, Lit LCW, Ho CS, Ma RCW, Tam WH. Development of gestational age-specific thyroid function test reference intervals in four analytic platforms through multilevel modelling. Thyroid 2020; 30: 598-608. |
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