About the Workshop Workshop Registration

Leadership Workshop for Clinicians and Health System Managers

Date:          26-27 September 2024
Venue:       Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Jockey Club Building
Format:      Interactive Workshop
Workshop Faculty:

• Prof. Erwin Loh, President Elect, Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators
• Prof. Alan Sandford, Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine and Past President of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators
• Prof. Paul Lai, Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, Former Chair Professor, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Guest Speaker:

• Prof. Zongjiu Zhang, Institute of Hospital Management of Tsinghua University

Our Workshop Faculty

Prof. Erwin Loh
President Elect, Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators

Professor Erwin Loh is President Elect of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators and Chief Medical Officer at Goulburn Valley Health, a public regional health service in Victoria. Prior to that, he was national Chief Medical Officer and Group General Manager Clinical Governance for St Vincent's Health Australia, the nation’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider, including 6 public hospitals, 10 private hospitals and 23 aged care facilities. Before that, he was the Chief Medical Officer of Monash Health, Victoria’s largest health service, where he worked for ten years. And before that he was the Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre for three years. And immediately prior to that, he worked as a full-time lawyer at Sparke Helmore for two years.

He is qualified in both medicine and law, with general and specialist registration as a medical practitioner (medical administration specialty) and is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and High Court of Australia. He also has an MBA, Master of Health Service Management, and PhD.
He is currently a director on the board of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators and the Presbyterian Ladies' College. He has previously been a director on the boards of St Vincent's Institute, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Monash Health Research Precinct Pty Ltd, Australian Medical Association (Victoria) and Law Institute of Victoria. He is a Graduate and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

He is Professor at Monash University, where he leads the Clinical Leadership and Management Unit at the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation. He is Honorary Clinical Professor with the title of Professor at the Department of Medical Education, University of Melbourne. He is Honorary Professor at Macquarie University at the Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research.

He teaches and carries out research in health law, health management and clinical leadership. He has been an invited speaker at local and international conferences, published on health law, medical management, and health technology, and is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists, with an interest in medical futurology.

He received the Distinguished Fellow Award from RACMA in 2017 for “commitment to governance, research and publication”.

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Prof. Alan Sandford
Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine and Past President of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators

Professor Sandford is currently Director of the Regional Medical Pathway, Central Queensland and Wide Bay Hospital and Health Services & Immediate Past President and Executive Board Director with Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA). Also admitted as Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine in 2023.

A Monash Graduate, he initially commenced training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and then Emergency Medicine. Professor Sandford, a Fellow of RACMA is an experienced Specialist Medical Leader holding positions in Executive medical leadership over the past 36 years in Australia and Internationally. A longstanding priority is supporting teaching, training and supervision in an evolving medical system. He holds Honorary Professorial appointments with University of Queensland, Central Queensland University and James Cook University. Many contributions to the National health system including Membership of the Australian Medical Council - Specialist Medical Accreditation Committee (SEAC) and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Rural Health Equity Steering Committee.

Professor Sandford has worked and consulted in a wide variety of posts including the Middle East and across all States in Australia with a particular focus on workforce and accreditation. He is particularly delighted to be a medical lead for the newly commenced and innovative medical workforce initiative of the end-to-end Regional Medical Pathway entirely undertaken in the Wide Bay and Central Queensland regions of Australia. Professor Sandford was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours in 2017 for “significant services to medical administration and health management in a number of executive roles”. Also Awarded the RACMA College Medallion in 2022, RACMA’s highest honour.

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Prof. Paul Lai
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, Former Chair Professor, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Prof. Paul Lai is an academic surgeon and specialist in general surgery from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He is currently the Honorary Consultant in Hepato-biliary and Pancreatic Surgery at the Prince of Wales Hospital and New Territories East Cluster.

His research interests include basic and clinical sciences of surgery and surgical outcome research.  He is currently the Director of the Surgical Outcomes Monitoring and Improvement Programme (SOMIP) in the Hospital Authority, Hong Kong.  He has taken an active role in surgical training programmes and examinations of the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong.

Prof. Lai has received training in administrative medicine and was conferred the Fellowship of Royal Australian College of Medical Administrators in 2017, and Fellowship of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine (Administrative Medicine) in 2018.  He was appointed as the Medical Director (Quality & Safety) at the CUHK Medical Centre from 2020 to 2022.

Over the years, Prof. Lai has developed an interest in medical law and mediation.  He received his Master in Medical Law (MML) in 2009 from the University of Northumbria and he is an accredited mediator in Hong Kong under the Hong Kong Mediation Accreditation Association Limited (HKMAAL).

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Our Guest Speaker

Prof. Zongjiu Zhang
Institute of Hospital Management of Tsinghua University

Prof. Zongjiu Zhang is the Executive Dean, Professor, Principal Researcher, and Doctoral Supervisor of Institute of Hospital Management of Tsinghua University. His research interests include health policy and high-quality development of hospitals, health law, health care system, health economics, clinical pharmacy and rational use of drugs, and public health emergency.

Prof. Zhang is an expert and thought leader in research and policy practice and his research has been published in journals including Chinese Journal of Nosocomiology, Chinese Journal of Hospital Administration, China Health etc.. He worked in the fields of medical treatment, hospital management and health administration for many years, and years of work have cultivated his unique insights. He served as a leader at the director level of the national health administration agencies for 20 years and has always been committed to promoting rational allocation of medical resources in China, optimizing the performance appraisal management of public hospitals, stimulating the development of hospital evaluation, medical quality control and medical treatment emergency in both theory and practice. Prof. Zhang has a high reputation with wide influence and appeal in the field of medicine and health. Therefore, he has also been elected as Vice President of Chinese Hospital Association and Chinese Medical Association, as well as the board member of the Advisory Council to the CPC Central Committee.