Professor SHAM Pak Chung

Biography
Prof. Pak Sham is a world renowned expert in genetics and epidemiology of psychiatric disorders, statistical methodology for genetic and epidemiological studies. He is currently Chair Professor of Psychiatric Genomics, Director of Centre for Genomic Sciences and holds a named professorship as Suen Chi-Sun Professor of Clinical Science. In his early career, he was dually trained as specialist in psychiatry with The Royal College of Psychiatrists and PhD in Genetics at University of Cambridge. Being one of the most frequently cited scholar in psychiatric genetics, he authored more than 400 peer-reviewed articles and the internationally acclaimed book entitled “Statistics in Human Genetics” (Edward Arnold, London 1998).

Positions
Prof. Sham holds the following positions at Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong:

• Suen Chi-Sun Professor of Clinical Science
• Chair Professor of Psychiatric Genomics
• Director, Centre for Genomic Sciences
• Co-director, State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Role in WORK HEART

• Co-Investigator