Stepping Stone Symposia Conference on Medical Technology ...

Kwok Sui LEUNG
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
ksleung@cuhk.edu.hk
SSSTC <strong>Stepping</strong> <strong>Stone</strong> Symposium on Medical Technologies, 27–28 September 2012
Research interests
Fracture healing; falls and fractures prevention; biophysical effect on musculoskeletal tissue
Educational history
1976 MBBS HKU, Hong Kong
1980 FRCS RCSEd Scotland
1991 M.D. CUHK, Hong Kong
1991 DipBiomech U Strathclyde Scotland
1994 FHKCOS,FHKAM (Orth.Surg) HK
2002 FACS USA
Previous positions
1983–1988 Lecturer Orthopaedics and Traumatology, CUHK
1988–1992 Senior Lecturer
1992–2004 Reader
2004 Chair Professor
Oct 1983 – Mar 1984 Clin Fellow, Ortho Surgery, Sunnybrook Med Centre, Toronto-Western Hospital, Canada
Kwok Sui LEUNG
Knowledge transfer in fragility fractures management – from laboratory to the community
Fragility fractures; prevention; biophysical stimulation; community elderly; translational research
Management of fragility fractures among elderly becomes a major challenge to orthopaedic professional to-day.
The role of orthopaedic surgeon is not limited to surgical management. We also take part in the rehabilitation and
prevention of the fractures. Since 2000, we started our community program on the prevention of falls and
fractures in Hong Kong. Through series of organised and systemic community programs, we successfully raised
much attention to this medico-social problem in the society. A multi-disciplinary clinical team was also formed to
provide holistic care for these patients with a comprehensive management program. The building up of the
collaborative relationship helps in our translational research programs and the applied community projects. The
research and development on hip protectors, fall prevention shoes and vibrational platform and the related
treatment programs are typical examples. High frequency low magnitude vibration(HFLMV) therapy is one of
major projects we carried out since 7 years ago. Started with animal and laboratory studies, the prototype we
developed was applied to human subjects. The effectiveness of this modality is further confirmed with specific
clinical studies as well as large scale control study in the community. The results of these studies confirm this
unique biophysical treatment on the very focused advances in the non-pharmacological modality to improve bone
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