Dr. Joyce Wing Yan Mak is currently the Consultant at Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at Prince of Wales Hospital. She is also the Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 2008 and trained as a gastroenterologist. She was elected to be the Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Physicians in 2015. She is passionate about inflammatory bowel disease and gut microbiota. She worked as an honorary clinical research fellow in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Unit in St. Marks Academic Institute, London and honorary research fellow in IBD Unit in University of Chicago. She further obtained her PhD in Medical Sciences in inflammatory bowel disease in CUHK in 2022. She has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals on inflammatory bowel disease and gut microbiota, including Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology and 3 book chapters on inflammatory bowel disease. She is the Immediate Past President of the Hong Kong IBD Society and is currently an Associate Editor for Frontline Gastroenterology and Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Open, and editorial board member of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics (APT) and Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis Plus. She is also a governing board member of the Asian Organisation of Crohn’s and Colitis (AOCC).
