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Dr Stephen K S Foo

Dr Stephen K S Foo


Stephen K S Foo is a specialist in family medicine in private practice in Hong Kong. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor in Family Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, as well as Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, the University of Hong Kong.


Dr Foo is honorary fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and also of the Academy of Family Medicine of Malaysian Physicians, and the Hong Kong College of Family Physicians. He was Honorary Consultant in Primary Care, Department of Health, HKSAR government.


Dr Foo has been instrumental in uniting and elevating the status of family physicians in Hong Kong to a level on par with other specialties and clinical disciplines. He assisted in founding the Hong Kong College of Family Physicians (HKCFP) in 1977 and was its president from 1992 to 1998. In 1992, he successfully made the College one of the 12 founding colleges of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, and Family Medicine a specialty. Three years later, in 1995, Dr Foo organized the 14th World WONCA Conference in Hong Kong. The Conference was a milestone for the development of family medicine practice in Hong Kong.


Currently, he is the honorary treasurer of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, censor of HKCFP and member of the Preliminary Investigation Committee of the Hong Kong Medical Council. Despite a busy practice, regular academic engagements and commitment to many causes, Dr Foo still finds time to speak at symposia and has published numerous papers and articles. He has been an examiner for the Conjoint Fellowship Examination of the HKCFP with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners since 1987, and currently is the course director of the Diploma of Family Medicine, HKCFP.
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