Associate Consultant, Department of Anaesthesiology, Queen Mary Hospital
Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor, The University of Hong Kong

vtang131@hku.hk

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
University of Adelaide, Australia.

Clinical Duties
Provide clinical anaesthetic services at tertiary hospital
Provide paediatric and neonatal anaesthesia
Provide clinical anaesthesia for paediatric and adult liver transplant

Non-Clinical and Administrative Duties
Coordinator for Departmental Regular CME meeting (2005 - 2008)
Coordinator for Clinical Audit: Hospital Authority QA Sub-committee (Anaesthesiology) (2006 - 2008)
Member of organizing committee of Annual Scientific Meeting in Anaesthesiology (Hong Kong) 2007 of HKCA (2007)
Member of organizing committee of Annual Scientific Meeting in Anaesthesiology (Hong Kong) 2008 of HKCA (2008)
Supervisor of Training, Department of Anaesthesiology, Queen Mary Hospital (May 2008-present)

My research interest is perioeprative anxiety in children and the use of preoperative intranasal dexmedetomidine in children to alleviate preoperative anxiety. Perioperative anxiety is common in children and anaesthetic induction can be a stressful period for children, parents and medical staff. Often children worry about needle and injection. Moreover, children of preschool age do not accept mask induction as readily as the school age children who can understand more about the perioperative procedures. With the use of intranasal dexmedetomidine we may reduce anxiety and distress relating to anaesthetic induction. In our future studies we aim to identify the optimum dose and time of intranasal dexmedetomidine as preoperative sedative in children.

Book Chapter: Dexmedetomidine in Paediatric Anaesthesia. In: Dexmedetomidine: A handbook of clinical applications. (MG Irwin and GTC Wong, ed.) Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2006