LAM, Tai Pong

Professor
Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Professor Medicine
Biography

Tai Pong had a dream: a dream that every citizen in the world has access to a well trained family doctor whenever s/he needs to. This is what drives him in his work because there is still a relative shortage of qualified family doctors in most communities. His work at World Health Organization for ICD-11 PHC and former editorship with Asia Pacific Family Medicine and The Hong Kong Practitioner has been his major effort towards this end. He is also very interested in medical education a

Research Intrest

Qualitative Research Medical education Community Health Health Services Research

List of Publications
Sun KS, Lam TP*, Lam KF, Lo TL, Chao DV, Lam EW. Barriers of Chinese primary care attenders to seeking help for psychological distress in Hong Kong. J Affective Disorders,
Wu D, Lam TP*. Underuse of Primary Care in China: The Scale, Causes, and Solutions. The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
Wu D, Lam TP*. At a crossroads, family medicine education in China. Academic Medicine
Wu D, Lam TP*, Lam KF, Zhou XD, Sun KS. Health reforms in China: the public’s choices for first-contact contact in ur
Goldberg DP, Lam TP, Minhas F, Razzaque B, Robles R, Bobes J, Iglesias C, Fortes S, de Jesus Mari J, Gask L, Garcia JÁ, Dowell CA, Rosendal M, Reed GM. Primary care physicians’ use of the proposed classification of common mental disorders for ICD-11