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  1. Multiparametric models for arrhythmic risk prediction in Brugada syndrome (19th November 2022)

Invited Faculty Speaker by the Heart Rhythm Association Singapore (HRAS) for the 15th Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS) Scientific Session, Singapore.

  1. The Use of Epidemiological Datasets for Addressing Clinical Problems in Cardio-Oncology (11th August 2022)

Invited Faculty Speaker for Faculty of Health Sciences Seminar Series organized by The University of Macau.

  1. Mechanisms of arrhythmogenesis in Brugada Syndrome: Insights from human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte models (7th July 2022)

Invited Faculty Speaker for the 18th Annual Haihe Conference on Cardiovascular Diseases organised by the different Cardiology Societies in Tianjin, PRC.

  1. Risk Stratification in Brugada Syndrome: Insights from Asia and Opportunities for International Collaborations (25th June 2022)

Invited Faculty Speaker at the 14th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Korean Heart Rhythm Society.

  1. Electrocardiographic indices for arrhythmic risk stratification in heart failure (14 to 15th May 2022)

Invited Faculty Speaker at the Japanese Cardiovascular Association and International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology Joint Session.

  1. Mechanisms of arrhythmogenesis in Brugada Syndrome: Insights from human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte models (5th May 2022)

Invited Speaker at the Biomedical Science Seminar, Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

  1. Predictors of arrhythmic events in Brugada Syndrome (15th November 2021)

Invited Faculty Speaker for the 12nd Cross-Straits Summit Forum & The 12nd Xiamen Cardiovascular Interventional Symposium, Xiamen, PRC.

  1. Risk Stratification in Brugada Syndrome (27th November 2021)

Invited Faculty Speaker at the Seminar of the Scientific Associations of the Hellenic College of Cardiology, Scientific Association of Arrhythmias, Greece.

  1. The Genetic Basis of and Risk Stratification in Brugada Syndrome (20th November 2021)

Invited Faculty Speaker at the Imperial College Clinical Genetics Society, UK.

  1. The relationship between use of statins and adverse outcomes in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 (13th to 15th October 2021)

Invited Speaker for the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology 13th Asian Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology (ACPE 2021) and 28th Conference of KoPERM (KoPERM 28) for the symposium “Pharmacoepidemiology-based RWE for COVID-19 -Experiences from Asia and Europe”. Seoul, South Korea.

  1. Risk Stratification in Brugada Syndrome (1st to 3rd October 2021)

Invited Faculty Speaker at the Asia Pacific Society of Cardiology 2021 Congress.

  1. Genetic Basis of Inherited Cardiac Ion Channelopathies (29th September 2021)

Invited Faculty Speaker at the Central Commissioned Training Programme 2021/22: Cardiac Genetics & Genomics, The Hospital Authority of Hong Kong, PRC.

  1. Sudden Cardiac Death in Asia: The Digital Experience (27th to 30th August 2021)

Faculty member for “The Digital Experience” of the annual European Society of Cardiology Congress 2021.

  1. Conduction velocity, repolarization and calcium handling abnormalities in hypokalaemia-induced arrhythmogenicity: insights from stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte models (11th-14th July 2021)

Invited Faculty Speaker for the 17th Annual Haihe Conference on Cardiovascular Diseases organised by the different Cardiology Societies in Tianjin, PRC.

  1. ECG and Envenomation: Snakebites and Scorpion Stings (June 2021)

Panel Moderator with Prof. Kamalan Jeevaratnam for the International Society of Electrocardiology monthly Webinar.

  1. International Forum for Cardio-Oncology (6th June 2021)

Co-Panel Chair with Prof. Ji Wei Liu and Prof. Susan Dent for the International Forum session, Cardio-Oncology Day, China Cardio-Oncology Network.

  1. Electrophysiological Mechanisms of long QT syndrome (15th to 17th April 2021)

Invited Faculty Speaker for the International Congress of Electrocardiology 2021 Congress, held over three days in Zakopane, Poland—Virtual.

  1. JACC Cardio-Oncology-China Cardio-Oncology Network Joint Meeting (31st March 2021)

Panel Moderator. Virtual Meeting.

  1. ECG abnormalities during the COVID-19 pandemic (26th February 2021)

Panel Moderator for the International Society of Electrocardiology Young Community Webinar.

  1. Risk Stratification of Cardiac Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death in Type 2 Diabetic Patients Receiving Insulin Therapy: A Territory-wide Observational Cohort Study (19th to 25th October 2020)

Invited Faculty Speaker for the 31st Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology, Beijing, PRC.

  1. Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and risk of lung and gastrointestinal cancers (17th to 20th December 2020)

Invited International Faculty Speaker by the Organizing Committee for the 11th Chinese Cardiovascular Symposium 2020. Dalian, PRC.

  1. Atrial Fibrillation and Brugada Syndrome (15th November 2020)

Invited Faculty Speaker for The 11th Cross-Straits Summit Forum & The 11th Xiamen Cardiovascular Interventional Symposium, Xiamen, PRC.

  1. Sudden Cardiac Death in Hong Kong (30th September 2020)

Invited Interview by Ta Kung Pao, Hong Kong.

  1. Multi-center collaborations on Brugada Syndrome (10-13th October 2020)

Invited Faculty Speaker for the 31st Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology, Beijing, PRC.

  1. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and risk of lung and gastrointestinal cancers: a population-based cohort study (3rd to 5th July 2020)

Invited International Faculty Speaker by the Organizing Committee for China International Heart Failure Congress 2020. Beijing, PRC.

  1. Risk Stratification in Brugada Syndrome and the International Brugada Electrocardiographic Indices Registry (BEIR) (6th to 8th December 2019)

Invited International Faculty Speaker by the Organizing Committee for the 10th Chinese Cardiovascular Symposium 2019. Dalian, PRC.

  1. The Brugada Electrocardiographic Indices Registry (BEIR) (21st November 2019)

Session co-chair and Invited Faculty Speaker for The 10th Cross-Straits Summit Forum & The 10th Xiamen Cardiovascular Interventional Symposium, Xiamen, PRC.

  1. Cardiovascular research using electronic health records: research sharing (18th November 2019)

Invited visiting lecture by the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, PRC.

  1. ECG indices for risk stratification in Brugada syndrome

Telomere length and Atrial fibrillation (24-27th October 2019)

Invited Faculty Speaker and Panelist by the Organizing Committee for the 12th Asia-pacific Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Session (APHRS 2019). Bangkok, Thailand.

  1. Multi-center collaborations on Brugada Syndrome (10-13th October 2019)

Invited Faculty Speaker for The 30th Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology, Beijing, PRC.

  1. Electrocardiographic indices for risk stratification in Brugada Syndrome: a machine learning approach (15th July 2019)

Invited Guest Speaker by the Tianjin Institute of Cardiology, Tianjin Medical University, PRC.

  1. Mechanisms of arrhythmogenesis in acquired long QT syndrome: insights from stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte models (11th-14th July 2019)

Invited Faculty Speaker for the 15th Annual Haihe Conference on Cardiovascular Diseases organised by the different Cardiology Societies in Tianjin, PRC.

  1. ECG diagnosis: RsR’ in V1 lead and differential diagnosis (30th-1st June 2019)

Invited Faculty Speaker for the 45th Congress of the International Society of Electrocardiology (ISE) and the 18th Congress of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology (ISHNE). Belgrade, Serbia.

  1. Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Precision Medicine and Therapies: From Concepts to Realities (3rd December 2018)

Organizing Committee and Session Chair for Cell-Based Cardiac Therapies. Hong Kong, PRC.

  1. Brugada syndrome: insights from electroanatomic mapping and electrocardiographic studies

Mechanisms of long QT syndrome: insights from mouse models (28th November 2018)

Session co-chair and Invited Faculty Speaker for The 9th Cross-Straits Summit Forum & The 9th Xiamen Cardiovascular Interventional Symposium, Xiamen, PRC.

  1. The use of cancer antigen-125 for risk stratification in heart failure and atrial fibrillation (3rd November 2018)

Invited Faculty Speaker by the Third China Cardio-Oncology Conference 2018, Dalian, PRC.

  1. Gap junction modulation and arrhythmogenesis (20th October 2018)

Alteration of electrophysiological properties in ventricular arrhythmia induced by inhibition of gap junction (19th October 2018)

Prognostic value of Tpeak – Tend interval for risk stratification in Brugada syndrome (19th October 2018)

How to find a right direction in arrhythmia basic research (18th October 2018)
How to Submit Your Paper: The Chief Editor’s View (18th October 2018)

Invited Faculty Speaker and Panelist by the Organizing Committee for the 11th Asia-pacific Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Session (APHRS 2018). Taipei, Taiwan.

  1. Clinical Case Management: Palpitations (13th September 2018)

Brugada Syndrome (12th September 2018)

Scenario-based ECG Interpretation (12th September 2018)

Risk Stratification in Cardiac Arrhythmias (11th September 2018)

Statistical Techniques For Clinical Epidemiological Studies (10th September 2018)

Invited Visiting Professor by the Tianjin Institute of Cardiology, Tianjin Medical University, PRC.

  1. How to set up a Langendorff perfusion model: practical aspects (16th July 2018)

Medical Education, Research and Postgraduate Training in Hong Kong, China (11th July 2018)

Invited Visiting Professor by the Tianjin Institute of Cardiology, Tianjin Medical University, PRC.

  1. Empirical, pharmacological separation of early afterdepolarization phenomena from underlying re-entrant substrates in a mouse model of acquired long QT syndrome (15th July 2018)

Invited Faculty Speaker for the 14th Annual Haihe Conference on Cardiovascular Diseases organised by the different Cardiology Societies in Tianjin, PRC.

  1. Electrocardiographic indices for risk stratification in Brugada Syndrome (11th July 2018)

Invited Guest Professor Lecture for The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, PRC.

  1. Roundtable Discussion on Anti-histamine Molecules Safety (3rd July 2018)

Invited Key Opinion Leader and Advisory Panel on the topic cardiovascular safety of anti-histamines.

  1. Advances in clinical practice: Uninterrupted anticoagulation in AF ablation (26th May 2018)

Session co-chair for Cardiac Electrophysiology and Cardiovascular Epidemiology. Invited Faculty Speaker. The Inaugural Joint Clinical and Translational Cardiology Conference Hong Kong, PRC.

  1. ASCA Scientific Exchange Meeting on Anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation (16th January 2018)

Invited attendee and session co-chair. Singapore.

  1. Stem cells and 3D printing for treating cardiac diseases (30th December 2017)

Invited Interview by Cable TV, Hong Kong.

  1. Prognostic value of frailty indices in advanced heart failure patients undergoing left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation (3rd to 5th November 2017)

Invited International Faculty Speaker by the Organizing Committee for the 8th Chinese Heart Failure Symposium 2017. Dalian, PRC.

  1. Electrocardiographic indices for arrhythmogenesis: what do we know? (17th July 2017)

Invited Guest Speaker by the Tianjin Institute of Cardiology, Tianjin Medical University, PRC.

  1. Mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias: insights from pre-clinical models (14th to 16th July 2017)

Invited Faculty Speaker for the 13th Annual Haihe Conference on Cardiovascular Diseases organised by the Tianjin Institute of Cardiology, Tianjin Medical University, PRC.

  1. Modelling Arrhythmias (February 2017)

Invited Faculty Speaker by the Organizing Committee of the Inaugural Symposium on “Reparative Medicine and Beyond” at the Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet.

  1. Translational research in stem cells (September 2016)

Invited Interview at the Hong Kong Science Park. Featured in two leading newspapers, The Oriental Daily and Headline News.