Dennis Lam

Dennis Lam Shun-chiu, JP (Chinese: 林順潮; born 1960) is a prominent Hong Kong ophthalmologist, businessman and politician. He has been a Hong Kong deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC) since 2008 and a member of the Election Committee.[1]

Biography

Lam was born in Hong Kong in 1960 and was educated at the King's College and was graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1984 and became a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.[2] He became chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 1998.[3]

He founded the C-MER Eye Care Holdings and became the company's chairman and chief executive. By 2017, C-MER Eye Care had eight ophthalmologists in Hong Kong and 24 physicians at Shenzhen hospital which brought him more than HK$80 million revenue in 2016.[4]

He was awarded Ten Outstanding Young Persons Selection of Hong Kong in 1994 and Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World in 1995. He was first elected to the Election Committee through the Medical Subsector in 1998 and was elected again in 2006. In the 2008 election, he was elected as Hong Kong deputy of the National People's Congress (NPC) in 2008 and became an ex officio member of the Election Committee since 2008. He was picked as one of the torchbearers in the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay in Hong Kong.[5]

During the historic 2019 pro-democracy protests, Lam and few hundreds Hong Kong doctors and nurses signed a letter expressing support for the Hong Kong Police Force's crackdown on the protesters, as a counter campaign against a group of medical workers staged a protest against the police brutality.[6]

Lam first ran in the Legislative Council election in 2000 in the Medical functional constituency but was defeated by Lo Wing-lok. He became one of the 51 candidates running in the 40-seat Election Committee in the newly overhauled 90-seat Legislative Council of Hong Kong in the 2021 election.[7]

Personal life

He married to Li Xiaoting, a participant of the 2004 Miss Chinese International Pageant who is 19 years younger than him.[4]

References
  1. "Lam, Dennis Shun Chiu 林順潮". Webb-site Who's Who.
  2. "Dr. Dennis Lam Shun Chiu". BookDoc.
  3. "CUHK Brings New Hope to Glaucoma Patients". The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2010.
  4. "One man money machine". The Standard. 18 September 2017.
  5. "Name List of Torchbearers in Hong Kong Torch Relay". Leisure and Cultural Services Department.
  6. "HK medical staff divided over police conduct". Asia Times. 17 September 2019.
  7. "2021 Legco Election Nominations". TVB News. 2021-11-03.
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