Professor Ho

Dr. PC Ho graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1987. Ho is a D4 Consultant and former Chief of Service of the Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology in Prince of Wales Hospital, as well as the Clinical Professor (honorary) of the Faculty of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

His main research interest is on Hand & Wrist Arthroscopic Surgery. Others include congenital hand differences, rheumatoid hand, paralytic hand reconstruction and microsurgery. Ho was former President of the Hong Kong Society for Surgery of the Hand (HKSSH) in 2008-2010, Chairman of Minimal Invasive Surgery Committee of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH) in 2012-15, Founding President of the Asia Pacific Wrist Association (APWA) in 2015-17 and President of the European Wrist Arthroscopy Society (EWAS) in 2015-16. He had been awarded 3 times the best paper “Hodgson Prize” at the Hong Kong Orthopaedic Association Congresses between 1995-1998. In 2012, he was awarded the Whipple Prize for recognition of his distinguished contribution in wrist arthroscopic surgery.

His academic honors included: Overseas Visiting Expert in Orthopaedic Surgery to Singapore in 2012, Moberg Lecturer at the 24th Scandinavian Hand Society Meeting in 2012, Robert A. Chase Visiting Professor to the Stanford University in 2014, Joshi Oration for the Indian Hand Surgery Society in 2015, Invited Lecturer to the 88th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association in 2015, Honored Professor to the Philadelphia Hand Rehabilitation Foundation in 2017 and 2022, Plenary Speaker of 11th APFSSH Congress 2017 in Cebu, Plenary Speaker of East Japan Society for Surgery of the Hand Meeting 2019 in Niigata, Inaugural Speaker of Master Classes in Hand Surgery at University of Pittsburgh in 2021, International Guest Presenter at Australian Hand Surgery Society ASM in 2021, Buck-Gramcko Lecturer at 62nd Annual Congress of German Hand Surgery Society (DGH) in 2022, Founder’s Lecturer at 7th Annual Congress of APWA in Pune 2022, Honorary President of the Lyon International Wrist Meeting in 2023 and as the keynote speaker in numerous national hand surgery and orthopaedic societies including Singapore, Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, India,  Argentina, USA, France, Romania, Poland, Estonia, Germany and Portugal since 2002. He has made 153 publications (99 in wrist surgery), conducted 129 cadaveric courses in 26 international centers, and delivered 150 local & 676 international lectures in 109 cities of 38 countries worldwide (including 105 webinars). He is the director of the Hong Kong International Wrist Arthroscopy Workshop and Seminar since 2008.

Professor Michael Tonkin

Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine.

Emeritus Surgeon Royal North Shore Hospital, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, North Shore Private Hospital, Sydney.

Previously: Head of Dept of Hand Surgery at above hospitals. Founder Department of Hand Surgery, RNSH.

Previous President of AHSS 2006-2008, President APFSSH 2002-2004, President IFSSH 2013-2016.

Co-Editor/Assistant Editor of A-P Journal of Hand Surgery 1995-2016. Editor of JHSE 2018/2019

IFSSH Pioneer in Hand Surgery, London 2022.

Honorary  membership of NSW HSA, AHSS, NZHSS, SAHSS, BSSH

Member of the Order of Australia (AM) 2023.

Major Interests: Congenital hand surgery, BPI, NBBP, Dupuytren Disease, Cerebral Palsy, Education in Hand Surgery.

Over 140 peer reviewed publications: over 40 book chapters.