The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Professor Jacqueline Yuen joined the University of Hong Kong as Clinical Assistant Professor at the School of Clinical Medicine in 2019. She is jointly appointed by the HKU Department of Medicine and School of Public Health. Professor Yuen is a specialist in geriatrics and palliative medicine, medical educator and researcher with particular interest in end-of-life care and doctor-patient communication. Her current research focuses on enhancing end-of-life care for patients with advanced dementia and advance care planning in older adults with life-limiting illnesses.

Before returning to her native Hong Kong, she was Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong as Clinical Lecturer from 2017-2018 and was awarded the University Education Award. She is a Senior Faculty of VitalTalk, a nonprofit organization devoted to improving relationships between clinicians and seriously ill patients and their families through communication skills training. She is a member of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Professionalism and Ethics Committee Task Force on Advance Directives and a co-opted member of the Hong Kong Geriatrics Society. She serves on the Expert Panel on Hong Kong Reference Frameworks in Primary Care Settings for the Health Bureau.

Professor Yuen earned her Bachelor of Arts in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University and her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Michigan Medical School. She completed her internal medicine residency at the New York Presbyterian Hospital at Weill Cornell, her geriatrics fellowship at the University of California San Francisco, and her hospice and palliative medicine fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.