The following consultants will provide consultation service to colleagues and students who need the advice on the following expertise when conducting health-related research, including clinical trials and other observational studies such as cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, and mixed-method studies.
Consultation Sessions
Consultant of FHSS Clinical Trials Unit
Dr Fan LI,
Associate Professor,
Department of Biostatistics,
School of Public Health,
Yale University
Dr Fan Li is a biostatistician specializing in causal inference, clinical trial design, and advanced statistical methods for complex health data. His research focuses on developing rigorous methodology for pragmatic clinical trials, cluster randomized trials, and comparative effectiveness research, with particular emphasis on study design, treatment effect estimation, mediation analysis, and heterogeneous treatment effects. His original work addresses methodological challenges arising in real-world clinical research, biomedical science, and public health and has led to the development of numerous statistical software. He has published more than 200 articles in leading biostatistical methods and biomedical application journals as lead, corresponding author, or coauthor. He serves as Associate Editor for Statistics in Medicine, Clinical Trials, Annals of Applied Statistics, and ASA Discoveries, and as Co-Editor in Chief of Epidemiologic Methods.
Consultant of FHSS Clinical Trials Unit
Dr Carlos WONG,
Associate Professor,
Leicester Real World Evidence Unit,
Leicester Diabetes Centre,
University of Leicester
Dr Carlos Wong is a health data scientist specialising in health economic analysis and routine-collected data analysis using electronic health records with over a decade of experience in these fields, and recently in development and application of AI in clinical setting. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Leicester Diabetes Centre (LDC). Prior to joining LDC, he served as an Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Senior Research Director at the Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health (D24H) and Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has published more than 300 articles in top-tier journals - including The Lancet, Nature Medicine, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of Hepatology, Diabetes Care, PLOS Medicine, BMC Medicine, Annals of Surgery- as leading or corresponding author. He is a member of the EuroQol Group, a Statistical Editor at the Hong Kong Medical Journal, and an Editorial Board Member at Primary Care Diabetes.
To request consultation service from our Unit, please complete the online form here. Upon receipt of your application, we will conduct a preliminary review and subsequently contact you to arrange a consultation session with the relevant consultant. The consultation session is sponsored by the Unit, and no additional cost will be charged to colleagues.
For enquiries, please contact Dr Violet Xu, Scientific Officer, by email at fhss.ctu@polyu.edu.hk.
FHSS-CTU Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Sub-Committee provides support for PPIE activities in health research.
For details, please click here.
