13 Facts About Joseph Sung

Joseph Sung's father was an optometrist in Shanghai before World War II.

The junior Joseph Sung was born in 1959; he went to the Chinese Children Institute for elementary school and entered Queen's College in 1971, finishing in 1976 after secondary five.

Joseph Sung then went to Canada to study microbial ecology in 1989, after being awarded a Croucher Foundation Fellowship.

Joseph Sung obtained his PhD from the University of Calgary in 1991, and his Doctor of Medicine from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1997.

Joseph Sung was appointed Mok Hing Yiu Professor of Medicine in 2007.

Joseph Sung has been noted for his response to student activism.

Joseph Sung sat on the 2019 Lui Che Woo Prize Welfare Betterment Prize Selection Panel.

In 2020, Joseph Sung was appointed as the Dean of Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at NTU and Senior Vice President at NTU; he took up the roles on 1 April 2021.

Joseph Sung's team was the first in showing a 1-week course of antibiotic therapy can cure H pylori infection, treat peptic ulcer and minimize its relapse.

Joseph Sung pioneered the use of endoscopic procedure in treating ulcer bleeding, reducing the need for surgery.

Joseph Sung chaired the Asia Pacific Working Group on Colorectal Cancer, founded in 2004 with the goal to set up regional guidelines on the prevention and screening for colorectal cancer.

Joseph Sung has published over 1700 scientific articles, and was listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in 2018,2019 and 2020.

Joseph Sung's younger daughter was an MBBS student in the Global Physician-Leadership Stream at CUHK, as of 2019.