{{Short description|Hong Kong gastroenterologist}} {{EngvarB|date=June 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} {{family name hatnote|Sung|Joseph Sung|Sung Jao-yiu|lang=Hong Kong}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Joseph Sung Jao-yiu | native_name = {{nobold|沈祖堯}} | native_name_lang = zh-hk | image = Joseph Sung 2015.jpg | image_size = | office = Dean of Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University | term_start = 1 April 2021<ref name="ntuappoint">{{cite press release |title=Eminent Hong Kong gastroenterologist and academic leader to join NTU as Dean of Medicine |url=http://news.ntu.edu.sg/pages/newsdetail.aspx?URL=http://news.ntu.edu.sg/news/Pages/NR2020_Aug11.aspx&Guid=b7b9af5c-3134-4c93-ab57-1b045de001e0&Category=All |location=Singapore |publisher=Nanyang Technological University |access-date=10 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410163832/http://news.ntu.edu.sg/pages/newsdetail.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ntu.edu.sg%2Fnews%2FPages%2FNR2020_Aug11.aspx&Guid=b7b9af5c-3134-4c93-ab57-1b045de001e0&Category=All |archive-date=10 April 2021 |date=11 August 2020}}</ref> | term_end = | predecessor = James Best<ref name="ntuappoint"/> | office2 = 7th Vice-Chancellor and President of the Chinese University of Hong Kong | predecessor2 = Lawrence Lau<ref name="appoint">{{cite press release |title=Professor Joseph J. Y. Sung Appointed the Seventh Vice-Chancellor of CUHK |url=https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/cpr/pressrelease/091110e.htm |location=Hong Kong |publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong |access-date=11 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212214226/http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/cpr/pressrelease/091110e.htm |archive-date=12 February 2021 |date=10 November 2009}}</ref> | successor2 = Rocky Tuan<ref>{{cite press release |title=CUHK Appoints Prof. Rocky S. Tuan as its next Vice-Chancellor and President |url=https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/english/features/appoints-next-vc.html |location=Hong Kong |publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong |access-date=12 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412143253/https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/english/features/appoints-next-vc.html |archive-date=12 April 2021 |date=2017}}</ref> | chancellor2 = Donald Tsang <br/> Leung Chun-ying <br/> Carrie Lam | term_start2 = 1 July 2010<ref name="appoint"/> | term_end2 = 31 December 2017<ref name="cuhkend">{{cite press release |title=Over 400 CUHK staff members say farewell to Prof. Joseph Sung |url=https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/over-400-cuhk-staff-members-say-farewell-to-prof-joseph-sung/ |location=Hong Kong |publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong |access-date=11 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411145608/https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/over-400-cuhk-staff-members-say-farewell-to-prof-joseph-sung/ |archive-date=11 April 2021 |date=29 December 2017}}</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1959|10|22}}<ref>{{cite news |title=鬼馬老友賀沈祖堯牛一 |url=https://news.mingpao.com/pns/%e6%b8%af%e8%81%9e/article/20141018/s00002/1413570176758/%e9%ac%bc%e9%a6%ac%e8%80%81%e5%8f%8b%e8%b3%80%e6%b2%88%e7%a5%96%e5%a0%af%e7%89%9b%e4%b8%80 |access-date=14 April 2021 |publisher=Ming Pao |date=18 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224093513/https://news.mingpao.com/pns/%e6%b8%af%e8%81%9e/article/20141018/s00002/1413570176758/%e9%ac%bc%e9%a6%ac%e8%80%81%e5%8f%8b%e8%b3%80%e6%b2%88%e7%a5%96%e5%a0%af%e7%89%9b%e4%b8%80 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |language=Chinese}}</ref> | birth_place = British Hong Kong<ref name="intro">{{cite web |title=Introduction of Professor Joseph J Y Sung SBS, MB BS, PhD, MD, FRCP (London), FRCP (Edinburgh), FRCP (Glasgow), FRACP, FAGA, FACG, FHKCP, FHKAM (Medicine) |url=http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/cpr/pressrelease/101216_vc_e.pdf |publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong |access-date=14 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414132954/http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/cpr/pressrelease/101216_vc_e.pdf |archive-date=14 April 2021 }}</ref> | children = 2 | education = University of Hong Kong (MBBS) <br/> University of Calgary (PhD) <br/> Chinese University of Hong Kong (MD)<ref name="oldbio">{{cite web |title=Biography of Professor Joseph J.Y. Sung |url=https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/wp-content/upload/resources/press/pdf/4ee083d60ef8c.pdf |publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong |access-date=13 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413143100/https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/wp-content/upload/resources/press/pdf/4ee083d61b8c7.pdf |archive-date=13 April 2021 |date=2010}}</ref> | module = {{Infobox scientist | child = yes | thesis_title = Microbial ecology of the binary system | thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/1880/24606 | thesis_year = 1991 | doctoral_advisor = J. William F. Costerton | field = Gastroenterology | workplaces = Chinese University of Hong Kong }} | module2 = {{Infobox Chinese | child = yes | t = 沈祖堯 | s = 沈祖尧 | j = Sam<sup>2</sup> Zou<sup>2</sup> Jiu<sup>4</sup> | y = Sám Jóu Yìuh }} }}
'''Joseph Sung Jao-yiu''' {{post-nominals|country=HKG|SBS|JP}} ({{zh|t=沈祖堯|j=Sam2 Zou2 Jiu4}}, born 22 October 1959) is a Hong Kong physician and gastroenterologist, and the current dean of Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), also serving as the Senior Vice President (Health and Life Sciences) of NTU.<ref name="dean">{{cite web |title=Prof Joseph Sung |url=https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/cris/rp/rp01310 |publisher=Nanyang Technological University |access-date=10 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410161957/https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/cris/rp/rp01310 |archive-date=10 April 2021}}</ref> Previously, he was the vice-chancellor and president of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).<ref name="oldbio"/>
== Early life and education == Sung is of Ningbo, Zhejiang ancestry and was born in Hong Kong. His father was an optometrist in Shanghai before World War II. When war broke out, he moved to Hong Kong in 1937 and continued his practice.<ref name="intro"/><ref name="synapsemag">{{cite magazine |last=Mackay |first=John |date=August 2016 |title=Professor Joseph Jao-yiu Sung SBS JP |url=http://www.hkcp.org/docs/Synapse/synapse201608.pdf |magazine=Synapse |location=Hong Kong |publisher=Hong Kong College of Physicians |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420142542/http://www.hkcp.org/docs/Synapse/synapse201608.pdf |archive-date=20 April 2021 |access-date=20 April 2021}}</ref>
The junior Sung was born in 1959; he went to the Chinese Children Institute for elementary school and entered Queen's College in 1971, finishing in 1976 after secondary five.<ref name="synapsemag"/><ref>{{cite news |title=抗沙士英雄 唯一校長候選人 沈祖堯獲薦掌中大 |url=https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20091021/ZNDGDIVLHALV67UWKYOMFIUC5A/ |access-date=14 April 2021 |publisher=Apple Daily |date=21 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224093514/https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20091021/ZNDGDIVLHALV67UWKYOMFIUC5A/ |archive-date=24 February 2021 |language=Chinese}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Speech by Prof. Joseph Jao-yiu SUNG |url=https://www.spkc.edu.hk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Speech-of-Prof-Sung.pdf |publisher=Stewards Pooi Kei College, Hong Kong |access-date=28 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129125046/https://www.spkc.edu.hk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Speech-of-Prof-Sung.pdf |archive-date=29 January 2022}}</ref> After his internship at Queen Mary Hospital, spending six months each in medicine and orthopaedic surgery, he received his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1983. He then went to Canada to study microbial ecology in 1989, after being awarded a Croucher Foundation Fellowship. The 1-year scholarship was extended by six months only, but he was then awarded the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, the most prestigious graduate award in the University of Alberta, to cover the rest of his 3-year stay.<ref name="synapsemag"/><ref name="umacau">{{cite web |title=Announcement of the Conferment of Honorary Degrees on Doctor Aaron J. Ciechanover, Mr Lao Ngai Leong, Doctor Anthony Lau Siu Wing, Professor Joseph Sung Jao-yiu, and Professor Wang Anyi |url=https://um2.umac.mo/apps/com/bulletin.nsf/cbec67391a113f1a48257b0b003b6b07/b52e39e19e721084482582a60029f529?OpenDocument&TableRow=4.1&Click= |publisher=University of Macau |access-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420151401/https://um2.umac.mo/apps/com/bulletin.nsf/cbec67391a113f1a48257b0b003b6b07/b52e39e19e721084482582a60029f529?OpenDocument=&TableRow=4.1&Click= |archive-date=20 April 2021 |date=8 June 2018}}</ref>
Sung obtained his PhD from the University of Calgary in 1991, and his Doctor of Medicine from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1997.<ref name="shaw">{{cite press release |title=Professor Joseph Sung appointed as Head of Shaw College of The Chinese University of Hong Kong |url=https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/professor-joseph-sung-appointed-as-head-of-shaw-college-of-the-chinese-university-of-hong-kong/ |location= |publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong |agency= |access-date=14 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414142942/https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/professor-joseph-sung-appointed-as-head-of-shaw-college-of-the-chinese-university-of-hong-kong/ |archive-date=14 April 2021 |date=1 November 2007}}</ref>
== Career == Before he went to Canada, Sung had joined the newly-opened Prince of Wales Hospital in 1984, first as a registrar in pathology, then as a medical officer in the medical department, and then as a fellow specialising in hepatology and gastroenterology.<ref name="synapsemag"/>
After his PhD, in 1992, he became a lecturer at the Department of Medicine of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).<ref name="oldbio"/> He was later promoted to Chair Professor at the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the same department (until 2006) in 1998,<ref name="oldcv">{{cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae of Professor Joseph Jao-Yiu SUNG |url=https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/resources/press/pdf/4c3fc4c1c933f.pdf |publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong |access-date=13 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213135908/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AcFNNUb2U7R0J%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk%2Fresources%2Fpress%2Fpdf%2F4c3fc4c1c933f.pdf+&cd=2&hl=zh-TW&ct=clnk&gl=hk |archive-date=13 February 2021 |date=2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> and became the Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics next year,<ref name="oldbio"/> until stepping down in 2010 when he assumed the role of president and vice-chancellor of CUHK.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Professor Joseph Sung meets staff and student on his first work day |url=https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/professor-joseph-sung-meets-staff-and-student-on-his-first-work-day/ |location=Hong Kong |publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong |access-date=2022-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531072021/https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/professor-joseph-sung-meets-staff-and-student-on-his-first-work-day/ |archive-date=2022-05-31 |date=2010-07-02}}</ref> Prior to that, Sung was also successively the associate dean (clinical) (2002–2004) and associate dean (general affairs) (2004–2009) of the CUHK Faculty of Medicine, and head of Shaw College (2008–2010).<ref name="oldbio"/> Sung was also appointed Mok Hing Yiu Professor of Medicine in 2007.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=2017 |title=Farewell to Professor Joseph Sung |url=https://www.iso.cuhk.edu.hk/images/publication/archive/bulletin/201702/html5/english/files/assets/common/downloads/files/bulletin201702en.pdf |magazine=Chinese University of Hong Kong Bulletin |location=Hong Kong |publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong |access-date=31 May 2022}}</ref>
=== Presidency at The Chinese University of Hong Kong === Sung's seven-year presidency at CUHK began in 2010. His first few years oversaw the transition from the English 3-2-2-3 system to the current 3-3-4 system. As the new university entrance examination, the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education, would debut in 2012, that year would see CUHK beginning its 4-year curriculum and a surge of undergraduate students. The first intake of students for the five new colleges, which were founded in 3–4 years prior for this transition, occurred between 2010 and 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Colleges |url=https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/english/college/info.html |publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong |access-date=23 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423150757/https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/english/college/info.html |archive-date=23 April 2021}}</ref>
Sung also led the establishment of CUHK'''–'''Shenzhen in 2014, the planning for the CUHK Medical Centre<ref>{{cite press release |title=CUHK Holds Ground Breaking Ceremony of CUHK Medical Centre |url=https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/cuhk-holds-ground-breaking-ceremony-of-cuhk-medical-centre/ |location= |publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong |agency= |access-date=23 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423150757/https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/english/college/info.html |archive-date=23 April 2021 |date=8 December 2016}}</ref> and the CUHK Strategic Plan 2016–2020.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sung |first1=Joseph JY |title=Foreword from the Vice-Chancellor and President |url=https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/strategicplan/2016/en/foreword.html |publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong |access-date=23 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423163130/https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/strategicplan/2016/en/foreword.html |archive-date=23 April 2021}}</ref>
Sung has also been noted for his response to student activism. During the 2014 Hong Kong protests, Sung and Peter Mathieson, the then-president and vice chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, visited and talked to student protestors,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ng |first1=Ka-chung |title=Protest talks thrust popular scholar Joseph Sung into political limelight |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1630693/protest-talks-thrust-popular-scholar-joseph-sung-political-limelight |access-date=23 April 2021 |publisher=South China Morning Post |date=3 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423160707/https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1630693/protest-talks-thrust-popular-scholar-joseph-sung-political-limelight |archive-date=23 April 2021}}</ref> in the hope of calming them down and preventing conflict, not to send any political message.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zhao |first1=Shirley |title=Outgoing Chinese University chief Joseph Sung, hailed as 'Asian hero' in 2003 Sars fight, warns of dangers of a polarised Hong Kong |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2126200/outgoing-chinese-university-chief-joseph-sung-hailed-asian |access-date=23 April 2021 |publisher=South China Morning Post |date=29 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423161012/https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2126200/outgoing-chinese-university-chief-joseph-sung-hailed-asian |archive-date=23 April 2021}}</ref> Towards the end of his vice-chancellorship, he asked the CUHK Student Union to remove pro-independence posters from message boards, and warned that the university would remove them if the Student Union refused.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cheng |first1=Kris |title=Chinese University head vows removal of pro-independence slogans if student union fails to act |work=Hong Kong Free Press |url=https://hongkongfp.com/2017/09/15/chinese-university-head-vows-removal-pro-independence-slogans-student-union-fails-act/ |access-date=23 April 2021 |date=15 September 2017 }}</ref>
Although reappointed for a second term until 2018,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ng |first1=Ka-chung |title=Protest talks thrust popular scholar Joseph Sung into political limelight |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1630693/protest-talks-thrust-popular-scholar-joseph-sung-political-limelight |access-date=31 May 2022 |work=South China Morning Post |date=3 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531082415/https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1630693/protest-talks-thrust-popular-scholar-joseph-sung-political-limelight |archive-date=31 May 2022}}</ref> he left his presidency early in 2017 and returned to the medical field.<ref name="cuhkend"/>
=== Post-presidency === Sung sat on the 2019 Lui Che Woo Prize Welfare Betterment Prize Selection Panel.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Welfare Betterment Prize Selection Panel in 2019 |url=http://www.luiprize.org/en/pages/display/the-prize/2019-welfare-betterment-selection-panel/ |publisher=Lui Che Woo Prize |access-date=27 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427145901/http://www.luiprize.org/en/pages/display/the-prize/2019-welfare-betterment-selection-panel/ |archive-date=27 April 2021}}</ref>
In 2020, Sung was appointed as the Dean of Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at NTU and Senior Vice President (Health and Life Sciences) at NTU;<ref>{{cite news|title=Joseph Sung, 2003 Sars hero and former Chinese University president, to lead medical school at Singapore's NTU |author= Ho-him Chan |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3096962/joseph-sung-2003-sars-hero-and-former-chinese-university |publisher=South China Morning Post |date=11 August 2020| access-date=2 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602022920/https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3096962/joseph-sung-2003-sars-hero-and-former-chinese-university |archive-date=2 June 2022}}</ref> he took up the roles on 1 April 2021.<ref name="ntuappoint"/> He remains an Emeritus Professor at CUHK.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr SUNG Jao Yiu, Joseph |url=https://www.cuhkmc.hk/professionals/dr-joseph-sung-jao-yiu |publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong |access-date=30 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220530084702/https://www.cuhkmc.hk/professionals/dr-joseph-sung-jao-yiu |archive-date=30 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Prof Joseph J.Y. Sung |url=https://www.idd.cuhk.edu.hk/people/ |publisher=Institute of Digestive Diseases, Chinese University of Hong Kong |access-date=2 June 2022 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210622232752/https://www.idd.cuhk.edu.hk/people/ |archive-date=22 June 2021}}</ref>
== Research == During the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak, as the Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, CUHK Faculty of Medicine and Chief of Service at the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital,<ref>{{cite web |title=Select Committee to inquire into the handling of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome outbreak by the Government and the Hospital Authority |url=https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr03-04/english/sc/sc_sars/reports/sars_rpt.htm |publisher=Legislative Council of Hong Kong |access-date=19 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419143128/https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr03-04/english/sc/sc_sars/reports/sars_rpt.htm |archive-date=19 April 2021}}</ref> Sung led the hospital in its response and studied the epidemiology and clinical aspect of the SARS virus, despite not being a respiratory system expert.<ref name="shaw"/> The hospital was one of the epicenters, after an infected patient was treated there.<ref name="lancet">{{cite journal |last1=Holmes |first1=David |title=Joseph Sung: marking the tenth anniversary of SARS |journal=The Lancet |date=2013 |volume=381 |issue=9869 |pages=797 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60616-9 |pmid=23668501 |url= |pmc=7138114}}</ref> Holding a Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, he went on a 6-month sabbatical in 2004 at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; he became the Founding Director and Advisor of the CUHK Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases upon returning.<ref name="synapsemag"/>
As a gastroenterologist, his research spans intestinal bleeding, ''Helicobacter pylori'' infection, peptic ulcer, and gastrointestinal cancer. His team was the first in showing a 1-week course of antibiotic therapy can cure ''H. pylori'' infection, treat peptic ulcer and minimize its relapse. He also pioneered the use of endoscopic procedure in treating ulcer bleeding, reducing the need for surgery.<ref>{{cite web |title=Professor Joseph Sung |url=https://www.ntu.edu.sg/about-us/leadership-organisation/profiles/professor-joseph-sung |publisher=Nanyang Technological University |access-date=21 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421152420/https://www.ntu.edu.sg/about-us/leadership-organisation/profiles/professor-joseph-sung |archive-date=21 April 2021}}</ref> Sung also chaired the Asia Pacific Working Group on Colorectal Cancer, founded in 2004 with the goal to set up regional guidelines on the prevention and screening for colorectal cancer.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sung |first1=JJY |last2=Lau |first2=JYW |last3=Young |first3=GP |last4=Sano |first4=Y |last5=Chiu |first5=HM |last6=Byeon |first6=JS |last7=Yeoh |first7=KG |last8=Goh |first8=KL |last9=Sollano |first9=J |last10=Rerknimitr |first10=R |last11=Matsuda |first11=T |last12=Wu |first12=KC |last13=Ng |first13=S |last14=Leung |first14=SY |last15=Makharia |first15=G |last16=Chong |first16=VH |last17=Ho |first17=KY |last18=Brooks |first18=D |last19=Lieberman |first19=DA |last20=Chan |first20=FKL |last21=Asia Pacific Working Group on Colorectal |first21=Cancer |title=Asia Pacific consensus recommendations for colorectal cancer screening. |journal=Gut |date=August 2008 |volume=57 |issue=8 |pages=1166–1176 |doi=10.1136/gut.2007.146316 |pmid=18628378 |hdl=10722/60558 |url=https://core.ac.uk/reader/37895907 |access-date=22 April 2021 |s2cid=19091069|hdl-access=free }}</ref>
Sung has published over 1700 scientific articles,<ref>{{cite web |title=Joseph J. Y. Sung |url=https://publons.com/researcher/1862417/joseph-j-y-sung/ |publisher=Publons |access-date=22 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422154642/https://publons.com/researcher/1862417/joseph-j-y-sung/ |archive-date=22 April 2021}}</ref> and was listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in 2018,<ref>{{cite web |title=Award Winning Research 2018 |url=https://www.med.cuhk.edu.hk/award-winning-research/2018 |publisher=CUHK Faculty of Medicine |access-date=22 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422154010/https://www.med.cuhk.edu.hk/award-winning-research/2018 |archive-date=22 April 2021}}</ref> 2019<ref>{{cite press release |date=26 November 2019 |title=Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2019 |url=https://www.med.cuhk.edu.hk/research/clarivate-analytics-highly-cited-researchers-2019 |publisher=CUHK Faculty of Medicine |access-date=22 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422153804/https://www.med.cuhk.edu.hk/research/clarivate-analytics-highly-cited-researchers-2019 |archive-date=22 April 2021}}</ref> and 2020.<ref>{{cite press release |date=18 November 2020 |title=Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2020 |url=https://www.med.cuhk.edu.hk/research/clarivate-analytics-highly-cited-researchers-2020 |publisher=CUHK Faculty of Medicine |access-date=22 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119084522/https://www.med.cuhk.edu.hk/research/clarivate-analytics-highly-cited-researchers-2020 |archive-date=19 January 2021}}</ref> He has edited or authored more than 15 books,<ref name="croucher">{{cite web |title=Professor Joseph SUNG Jao Yiu |url=https://croucher.org.hk/chan-siu-man |publisher=Croucher Foundation |access-date=10 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410154657/https://croucher.org.hk/chan-siu-man |archive-date=10 April 2021}}</ref> including ''Principles and Practice of Clinical Medicine in Asia'' (2nd ed.),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sung |first1=Joseph Jao Yiu |last2=Wong |first2=Lawrence KS |last3=Li |first3=Philip KT |title=Principles and practice of clinical medicine in Asia: treating the Asian patient |date=2002 |publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |location=Hong Kong |isbn=9789623560306 |edition=2nd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z9wRyBkMfA4C |access-date=22 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423123027/https://books.google.com.hk/books/about/Principles_and_Practice_of_Clinical_Medi.html?id=z9wRyBkMfA4C |archive-date=23 April 2021}}</ref> ''Gastrointestinal Bleeding'' (2nd ed.) <ref>{{cite book |last1=Sung |first1=Joseph JY |last2=Kuipers |first2=Ernest J |last3=Barkun |first3=Alan N |title=Gastrointestinal Bleeding |date=2012 |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |location=Hoboken, New Jersey |isbn=9781405195553 |edition=2nd |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444398892 |access-date=22 April 2021 |doi=10.1002/9781444398892}}</ref> and ''Atlas of Clinical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy'' (3rd ed.).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilcox |first1=Charles Melbern |last2=Munoz-Navas |first2=Miguel |last3=Sung |first3=Joseph JY |title=Atlas of clinical gastrointestinal endoscopy |date=2012 |publisher=Saunders |location=Philadelphia, PA |isbn=9781437719093 |edition=3rd |url=https://www.eu.elsevierhealth.com/atlas-of-clinical-gastrointestinal-endoscopy-9781437719093.html |access-date=22 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423123848/https://www.eu.elsevierhealth.com/atlas-of-clinical-gastrointestinal-endoscopy-9781437719093.html |archive-date=23 April 2021}}</ref> Sung has penned many chapters in major textbooks as well, including the ''Oxford Textbook of Medicine'' (6th ed.),<ref>{{cite book |last=Sung |first=Joseph |editor-last1=Firth |editor-first1=John |editor-last2=Conlon |editor-first2=Christopher |editor-last3=Cox |editor-first3=Timothy |title=Oxford Textbook of Medicine |date=March 2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780198746690 |edition=6th |url=https://oxfordmedicine.com/view/10.1093/med/9780198746690.001.0001/med-9780198746690 |access-date=22 April 2021 |chapter=Peptic ulcer disease |chapter-url=https://oxfordmedicine.com/view/10.1093/med/9780198746690.001.0001/med-9780198746690-chapter-295 |doi=10.1093/med/9780198746690.001.0001}}</ref> ''Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease'' (8th ed.) <ref>{{cite book |last1=Sung |first1=Joseph JY |editor1-last=Feldman |editor1-first=Mark |editor2-last=Friedman |editor2-first=Lawrence S |editor3-last=Brandt |editor3-first=Lawrence J |title=Sleisenger & Fordtran's gastrointestinal and liver disease : pathophysiology, diagnosis, management |date=2006 |publisher=Saunders |location=Philadelphia |isbn=9781416002451 |edition=8th |chapter=Helicobacter pylori |oclc=60500884 }}</ref> and ''Textbook of Gastroenterology'' (5th ed.).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leung |first1=Wai K |last2=Ng |first2=Enders KW |last3=Sung |first3=Joseph JY |editor1-last=Yamada |editor1-first=Tadataka |editor2-last=Alpers |editor2-first=David H |editor3-last=Kalloo |editor3-first=Anthony N |editor4-last=Kaplowitz |editor4-first=Neil |editor5-last=Owyang |editor5-first=Chung |editor6-last=Powell |editor6-first=Don W |title=Textbook of Gastroenterology |date=October 2011 |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |isbn=9781444359411 |edition=5th |url=https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Textbook+of+Gastroenterology%2C+5th+Edition-p-9781444359411 |access-date=22 April 2021 |chapter=Tumors of the Stomach |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423124849/https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Textbook+of+Gastroenterology%2C+5th+Edition-p-9781444359411 |archive-date=23 April 2021}}</ref>
== Personal life == Sung and his wife, an obstetrician and gynecologist, were both MBBS students at the University of Hong Kong, and they went to the same hospital for internship training.<ref>{{cite news |title=政情：沈祖堯靠筆記追老婆 |url=http://the-sun.on.cc/cnt/news/20091123/00408_004.html |access-date=24 April 2021 |work=The Sun |date=23 November 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210424154840/http://the-sun.on.cc/cnt/news/20091123/00408_004.html |archive-date=24 April 2021 |language=zh}}</ref> They got married on 1 January 1989.<ref>{{cite news |title=沈祖堯透露人生三次急難 勉港人疫境看上帝掌風雲 |url=https://chinese.gospelherald.com/articles/29078/20200811/%E6%B2%88%E7%A5%96%E5%A0%AF%E9%80%8F%E9%9C%B2%E4%BA%BA%E7%94%9F%E4%B8%89%E6%AC%A1%E6%80%A5%E9%9B%A3-%E5%8B%89%E6%B8%AF%E4%BA%BA%E7%96%AB%E5%A2%83%E7%9C%8B%E4%B8%8A%E5%B8%9D%E6%8E%8C%E9%A2%A8%E9%9B%B2.htm |access-date=24 April 2021 |work=The Gospel Herald |date=11 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923193055/https://chinese.gospelherald.com/articles/29078/20200811/%E6%B2%88%E7%A5%96%E5%A0%AF%E9%80%8F%E9%9C%B2%E4%BA%BA%E7%94%9F%E4%B8%89%E6%AC%A1%E6%80%A5%E9%9B%A3-%E5%8B%89%E6%B8%AF%E4%BA%BA%E7%96%AB%E5%A2%83%E7%9C%8B%E4%B8%8A%E5%B8%9D%E6%8E%8C%E9%A2%A8%E9%9B%B2.htm |archive-date=23 September 2020 |language=zh}}</ref> Both of them are Christians.<ref>{{cite news |title=醫者校長心 沈祖堯 |url=http://spyan.jour.hkbu.edu.hk/2013/02/22/%E9%86%AB%E8%80%85%E6%A0%A1%E9%95%B7%E5%BF%83%E3%80%80%E6%B2%88%E7%A5%96%E5%A0%AF/ |access-date=24 April 2021 |work=The Young Reporter |publisher=Hong Kong Baptist University |date=22 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424160937/http://spyan.jour.hkbu.edu.hk/2013/02/22/%E9%86%AB%E8%80%85%E6%A0%A1%E9%95%B7%E5%BF%83%E3%80%80%E6%B2%88%E7%A5%96%E5%A0%AF/ |archive-date=24 April 2021 |language=zh}}</ref>
Sung's two daughters both pursued medicine. His elder daughter went to Diocesan Girls' School, and was admitted into CUHK Faculty of Medicine in 2011.<ref>{{cite news |title=末代尖子 港大取錄近半數 |url=https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20110408/YJBP4R2JSWH3Y5XZTGDE6DTNTM/ |access-date=25 April 2021 |publisher=Apple Daily |date=8 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425135852/https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20110408/YJBP4R2JSWH3Y5XZTGDE6DTNTM/ |archive-date=25 April 2021 |language=zh}}</ref> His younger daughter was an MBChB student in the Global Physician-Leadership Stream at CUHK, as of 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty Prizes 2017-18 and Scholarships 2018-19 |url=https://www.med.cuhk.edu.hk/f/scholarships/60/5797/Notice-Faculty-Prizes-201718-and-Scholarships-201819.pdf |publisher=CUHK Faculty of Medicine |access-date=25 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425143103/https://www.med.cuhk.edu.hk/f/scholarships/60/5797/Notice-Faculty-Prizes-201718-and-Scholarships-201819.pdf |archive-date=25 April 2021}}</ref> In 2016 at her Year 2, she received the Innovation and Technology Scholarship Award from the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups,<ref>{{cite web |title=Award Presentation Ceremony 2016 |url=https://innotechscholarship.hkfyg.org.hk/en/2016/04/21/eng-15/ |publisher=Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups |access-date=25 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425140906/https://innotechscholarship.hkfyg.org.hk/en/2016/04/21/eng-15/ |archive-date=25 April 2021}}</ref> and went to study at the Centre for Integrative Medicine at the University of Toronto.<ref>{{cite news |last1=甄 |first1=挺良 |title=沈祖堯幼女獲頒獎學金 負笈加拿大揉合中西醫學 |url=https://www.hk01.com/%E7%A4%BE%E6%9C%83%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E/17617/%E6%B2%88%E7%A5%96%E5%A0%AF%E5%B9%BC%E5%A5%B3%E7%8D%B2%E9%A0%92%E7%8D%8E%E5%AD%B8%E9%87%91-%E8%B2%A0%E7%AC%88%E5%8A%A0%E6%8B%BF%E5%A4%A7%E6%8F%89%E5%90%88%E4%B8%AD%E8%A5%BF%E9%86%AB%E5%AD%B8 |access-date=25 April 2021 |language=zh |publisher=HK01 |date=21 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425142617/https://www.hk01.com/%E7%A4%BE%E6%9C%83%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E/17617/%E6%B2%88%E7%A5%96%E5%A0%AF%E5%B9%BC%E5%A5%B3%E7%8D%B2%E9%A0%92%E7%8D%8E%E5%AD%B8%E9%87%91-%E8%B2%A0%E7%AC%88%E5%8A%A0%E6%8B%BF%E5%A4%A7%E6%8F%89%E5%90%88%E4%B8%AD%E8%A5%BF%E9%86%AB%E5%AD%B8 |archive-date=25 April 2021}}</ref>
== Honours and awards == {{columns-list|colwidth=35em| * Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1995)<ref name="ceid">{{cite web |title=Founding Director and Advisor |url=https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/med/ceid/people__jysung.htm |publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong |access-date=28 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128070045/https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/med/ceid/people__jysung.htm |archive-date=28 January 2022}}</ref> * Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1997)<ref name="ceid"/> * Outstanding Staff and Team Award, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong (1998)<ref name="ashk">{{cite web |title=Prof Joseph J Y SUNG, SBS, JP |url=http://www.ashk.org.hk/en/ourMembers/details/30 |publisher=Hong Kong Academy of Sciences |date=April 2021 |access-date=26 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426155451/https://www.ashk.org.hk/en/ourMembers/details/30 |archive-date=26 April 2021}}</ref> * Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology (1999)<ref name="ceid"/> * Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (2000)<ref name="ceid"/> * Asian Hero, ''Time'' magazine (2003)<ref name="lancet"/> * CUHK Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award (2003)<ref>{{cite web |title=Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award 2003 |url=https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/vc-exemplary-teaching-award/english/award2003.html |publisher=Chinese University of Hong Kong |access-date=26 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426150922/https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/vc-exemplary-teaching-award/english/award2003.html |archive-date=26 April 2021}}</ref> * Silver Bauhinia Star, Hong Kong (2004)<ref>{{cite web |title=2004 Honours List |url=https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200407/01/0630371.htm |publisher=Government of Hong Kong |access-date=26 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426151251/https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200407/01/0630371.htm |archive-date=26 April 2021}}</ref> * Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (2005)<ref name="ceid"/> * Second Prize, Cheung Kong Scholars Program (2005)<ref>{{cite press release |title=Ceremony Honours 2005 Cheung Kong Scholars |url=https://www.lksf.org/20060329/ |location=Hong Kong |publisher=Li Ka Shing Foundation |access-date=27 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127140740/https://www.lksf.org/20060329/ |archive-date=27 November 2020 |date=29 March 2006}}</ref> * Cheung Kong Achievement Award, Cheung Kong Scholars Program (2005)<ref>{{cite news |title=香港教授首获长江学者奖 |url=https://www.bioguider.com/m/view.php?aid=9040 |access-date=6 June 2022 |work=Beijing Times |date=30 March 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220606033541/https://www.bioguider.com/m/view.php?aid=9040 |archive-date=6 June 2022 |language=zh}}</ref> * Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association (2006)<ref name="ceid"/> * Second Prize, State Scientific and Technological Progress Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, China (2007)<ref>{{cite web |title=2007年度国家科学技术进步奖获奖项目 |url=http://www.most.gov.cn/ztzl/gjkxjsjldh/jldh2007/jldh07jlgg/200801/t20080108_58277.htm |publisher=Ministry of Science and Technology |access-date=26 April 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210426153611/http://www.most.gov.cn/ztzl/gjkxjsjldh/jldh2007/jldh07jlgg/200801/t20080108_58277.htm |archive-date=26 April 2021 |language=zh}}</ref> * Prevent Cancer Foundation Laurel Award - International Leadership (2008)<ref>{{cite press release |title=Cancer Prevention Laurels: Celebrating 8 Years of Award Winners! |url=https://www.preventcancer.org/2010/10/cancer-prevention-laurels-celebrating-8-years-of-award-winners/ |publisher=Prevent Cancer Foundation |access-date=27 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427142845/https://www.preventcancer.org/2010/10/cancer-prevention-laurels-celebrating-8-years-of-award-winners/ |archive-date=27 April 2021 |date=7 October 2010}}</ref> * Ho Leung Ho Lee Advancement Prize, Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation (2011)<ref name="profilecroucher">{{cite web |title=Joseph Sung 沈袓堯教授 |url=https://scholars.croucher.org.hk/scholars/joseph-sung |publisher=Croucher Foundation |access-date=28 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128042135/https://scholars.croucher.org.hk/scholars/joseph-sung |archive-date=28 January 2022}}</ref> * Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering (2011)<ref>{{cite web |title=沈祖尧 |url=https://www.cae.cn/cae/html/main/colys/68565990.html |publisher=Chinese Academy of Engineering |access-date=26 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426154544/https://www.cae.cn/cae/html/main/colys/68565990.html |archive-date=26 April 2021 |language=zh}}</ref> * Non-official justice of the peace, Hong Kong (2012)<ref>{{cite web |title=Persons appointed under Section 3(1)(b) of the Justices of the Peace Ordinance (Cap. 510) (commonly known as "Non-official JPs") |url=https://www.info.gov.hk/jp/en/JPList_g_31b.htm|publisher=Government of Hong Kong |access-date=30 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430145533/https://www.info.gov.hk/jp/en/JPList_g_31b.htm |archive-date=30 April 2021}}</ref> * Master of the World Gastroenterology Organisation Award (2013)<ref>{{cite web |title=Masters of the WGO |url=https://www.worldgastroenterology.org/who-we-are/awards/masters-of-the-wgo |publisher=World Gastroenterology Organisation |access-date=27 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427145142/https://www.worldgastroenterology.org/who-we-are/awards/masters-of-the-wgo |archive-date=27 April 2021}}</ref> * World Outstanding Chinese Award, World Chinese Business Investment Foundation (2013)<ref>{{cite news |title=政壇：沈祖堯范上達獲頒傑出華人獎 |url=http://the-sun.on.cc/cnt/news/20130505/00408_002.html |access-date=28 January 2022 |work=Oriental Daily News |date=5 May 2013 |language=zh |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128062039/http://the-sun.on.cc/cnt/news/20130505/00408_002.html |archive-date=January 28, 2022}}</ref> * Fulbright Hong Kong Distinguished Scholar Award (2014)<ref>{{cite press release |title=CUHK Vice-Chancellor Prof. Joseph Sung Receives Fulbright Hong Kong Distinguished Scholar Award |url=https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/cuhk-vice-chancellor-prof-joseph-sung-receives-fulbright-hong-kong-distinguished-scholar-award/ |location=Hong Kong |publisher=Chinese University Hong Kong |access-date=30 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430143755/https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/cuhk-vice-chancellor-prof-joseph-sung-receives-fulbright-hong-kong-distinguished-scholar-award/ |archive-date=30 April 2021 |date=8 June 2014}}</ref> * Founding Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences (2015)<ref name="ashk"/> * First-class Award in Natural Sciences, Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology), Ministry of Education, China (2015)<ref>{{cite press release |title=CUHK Received Eight Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards, The Highest Share among Hong Kong Institutions |url=https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/cuhk-received-eight-ministry-of-education-higher-education-outstanding-scientific-research-output-awardsthe-highest-share-among-hong-kong-institutions-2/ |location=Hong Kong |publisher=Chinese University Hong Kong |access-date=30 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430141846/https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/cuhk-received-eight-ministry-of-education-higher-education-outstanding-scientific-research-output-awardsthe-highest-share-among-hong-kong-institutions-2/ |archive-date=30 April 2021 |date=7 May 2015}}</ref> }}
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