Andrew Law Chi Kin

Professor Andrew Law is a keen medical educator who has held leadership roles in teaching at the departmental and faculty levels at the University of Hong Kong – where he continues to hold honorary teaching appointments with the Department of Family Medicine & Primary Care and the Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit – and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland medical programme in Kuala Lumpur.

Prof. Law worked as an honorary senior consultant for the psychogeriatrics service at Hospital Kuala Lumpur, focusing on major neurocognitive disturbances. He has been providing consultations and educational talks to non-profit organizations in Hong Kong and is instrumental in creating the Chinese version of a website in educating caregivers of patients suffering from dementia with his collaborators in North America.

Deciphering early vascular disturbance as a culprit in dementia pathogenesis has been Prof. Law’s primary research interest, in which he has earned an award from the Alzheimer Society of Canada. He has recently received funding from the Malaysian Medical Association to conduct a pilot study on the treatment of behavioural symptoms in dementia patients by neurostimulation. Prof. Law has been training postgraduate research students and published over fifty book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles, and conference papers.

Qualifications

• BSc(Hons) in Pharmacology and Human Biology (University of Toronto, Canada)
• MPhil in Cardiovascular Physiology (University of Cambridge, UK)
• MD, undergraduate medical training (Saint Louis University, USA)
• PhD in Neuroscience (McGill University, Canada)
• Postgraduate medical training in Psychiatry (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Fellow, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
• Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
• Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Research Interests

• Neuro-endothelial culprits in neurodegenerative disorder pathogenesis.
• Neurostimulation as a treatment for behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.
• Primary care – psychiatry collaborative practice model for common mental disorders.
• Understanding of medical student perception towards psychiatry as a career.