Professor Eric Wan is jointly appointed by the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, and the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy of The University of Hong Kong. He obtained his degree of BSc in Computing Mathematics with First Class Honour from the City University of Hong Kong and MSc in Statistics with Distinction from the University of Nottingham in UK. Following the completion of his PhD in Primary Care and Medical Statistics from the University of Hong Kong, he worked as a medical statistician in the University of Oxford. He was also a Chartered Statistician (CStat) from the Royal Statistical Society, and a Professional Statistician (PStat^®) from the American Statistical Association. He was also awarded the Health and Medical Research Fund Research Fellowship of the Health Bureau of Hong Kong SAR Government as a visiting scholar at the Harvard University. His achievements are recognised from funding bodies including National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macau), and awards including the HKU Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award.

 

Professor Wan is an experienced epidemiologist and medical statistician, and has published more than 150 articles in international journals including top-tier specialty journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, Lancet Infectious Disease, The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research, Diabetes Care and Hypertension. His expertise is using big data analytics in health and health service research. He has substantial experience in handling the big data such as electronic health records in Hong Kong Hospital Authority, IQVIA Medical Research Data and UK Biobank. He has been awarded several competitive grants as principal investigator or co- principal investigator including the Health and Medical Research Fund of the Food and Health Bureau of Hong Kong SAR Government, RGC Collaborative Research Fund and Beat Drug Fund. He is a Co-principal investigator of AI and Pharmaceuticals in Non-Communicable Diseases at the Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health (D²4H). He is one of the lead researchers in the CARE Programme, a comprehensive surveillance programme to monitor known and potential adverse events of COVID-19 vaccines in Hong Kong. He is also a member of NeuroGEN (Neurological and Mental Health Global Epidemiology Network) and Institute of Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, and an affiliate member of Hong Kong College of Family Physicians.

 

Professor Wan was featured in a Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) programme titled Hong Kong Stories: Inventors in Hong Kong —- Treasure Hunting in Big Data. In this programme, Professor Wan shared when his passion for numbers began and how it helped kickstart his career with big data and medical statistics, and also showcased the importance of big data analytics on health services and COVID-19.