¹Department of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Hung-Fat Tse, MD, was born in Hong Kong and earned his medical degree from the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong. He completed his postgraduate training on Internal Medicine and Cardiology in the Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong. He also completed his cardiac electrophysiology training fellowship in the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He awarded the Sir Patrick Manson Gold Medal for his MD Thesis. He held academic appointments at the University of Hong Kong since 1996 and is currently the Associate Professor in Medicine and Director, Sun Chieh Yeh Cardiovascular Research and Training Laboratory, The University of Hong Kong. Dr Tse has been involved in cardiovascular research for the past 10 years. His current research interests include cardiac pacing, mechanisms and nonpharmacological treatment for atrial fibrillation (including dual-site atrial pacing, implantable atrial defibrillator and transvenous cryoablation), and basic and clinical researches on stem cells therapy for treatment of heart diseases. He has published over 100 original scientific articles in international journals.