13 Facts About Dennis Lam

Dennis Lam Shun-chiu, JP is a prominent Hong Kong ophthalmologist, businessman and politician.

Dennis Lam has been a Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress since 2008 and a member of the Election Committee.

Dennis Lam became chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 1998.

Dennis Lam founded the C-MER Eye Care Holdings and became the company's chairman and chief executive.

Dennis Lam was awarded Ten Outstanding Young Persons Selection of Hong Kong in 1994 and Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World in 1995.

Dennis Lam was first elected to the Election Committee through the Medical Subsector in 1998 and was elected again in 2006.

Dennis Lam was picked as one of the torchbearers in the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay in Hong Kong.

Dennis Lam first ran in the Legislative Council election in 2000 in the Medical functional constituency but was defeated by Lo Wing-lok.

Dennis Lam became one of the 51 candidates running in the 40-seat Election Committee in the newly overhauled 90-seat Legislative Council of Hong Kong in the 2021 election.

Dennis Lam married Li Xiaoting, a participant of the 2004 Miss Chinese International Pageant who is 19 years younger than him.

On 5 January 2022, Carrie Dennis Lam announced new warnings and restrictions against social gathering due to potential COVID-19 outbreaks.

One day later, it was discovered that Dennis Lam attended a birthday party hosted by Witman Hung Wai-man, with 222 guests.

Dennis Lam was warned by Legislative Council president Andrew Leung to not attend any meetings until after finishing his last mandatory COVID-19 test on 22 January 2022.