Hong Kong

Dr. James Luk is a specialist with Fellowships in both Geriatric Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine. Dr. Luk graduated from the University of Hong Kong and obtained his MBBS (HK) degree in 1989. He also received his MSc (Experimental Medicine) at the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1993. After obtaining his MRCP (UK) in 1996, he started to specialize in the field of Geriatric Medicine. He went to Sydney, Australia in 1998 to receive part of his geriatric training at St. Vincent's Hospital and War Memorial Hospital, NSW, Australia.

Dr. James Luk is the Immediate President of the Hong Kong Geriatrics Society. He is also the Deputy Hospital Chief Executive, Chief of Service and Consultant of Department of Medicine, TWGHs Fung Yiu King Hospital and the Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of the University Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong.

Dr. Luk has experience and interest in many areas of geriatrics, including end-of-life care for older people, advance care planning, Parkinson's disease, dysphagia and aspiration pneumonia, careful hand (comfort) feeding, geriatric rehabilitation, community geriatric services and fall prevention. Recently, he has been studying the concept and application of geriatric frailty and sarcopenia in different programs such the geriatric front door program in emergency and end of life program in residential care homes. He has published more than 90 peer reviewed papers in international and local journals. He is an editor of the Hong Kong Medical Journal and the Asian Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics. He is one of the editors and authors for the Hong Kong Geriatrics Society Curriculum in Geriatric Medicine (2nd edition). He is also one of the authors of Chan's Practical Geriatrics (3rd edition).