Ms. Chu completed her Bachelor of Pharmacy and Master of Clinical Pharmacy degree at the University of South Australia, she has worked as a senior clinical pharmacist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Repatriation General Hospital in South Australia where she has gained extensive clinical experiences in various clinical areas.

Since joining the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy in 2013, Ms. Chu has taken up major teaching and administrative responsibility as a key member of the clinical teaching team. As the HKU BPharm Program Director, Ms. Chu coordinated the implementation and ongoing evaluation of the major curricular revamp of the HKU BPharm curriculum from the academic year of 2020/21.

Ms. Chu is a Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP) and Pharmacotherapy Specialist (BCPS), as well as a fellow of Advanced Higher Education (FHEA).

Ms. Chu received a Teaching Development Grant in 2022 for the implementation of a Professional Development Programme for BPharm students which has now been incorporated into the curriculum, her current focus emphasized on professional identity development of students and interprofessional education in primary healthcare setting.

Office: 2/F, 21 Sassoon Road, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, Hong Kong SAR, China.

Memberships & Editorships

Memberships:

• Registered Pharmacist in Hong Kong (Hong Kong Pharmacy and Poisons Board)
• Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist, Board of Pharmacy Specialties (USA)
• Board Certified Pharmacotherapy Specialist, Board of Pharmacy Specialties (USA)
• Member, Society of Hospital Pharmacist, Hong Kong

Honours and Awards

• Gold Award, QS Reimagine Education, Hybrid Learning, Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice, Team Award (2021)
• Fellow, Advanced Higher Education FHEA (2020)
• Early Career Teaching Award, The University of Hong Kong (2017)

• Professional identity development in pharmacy students
• Interprofessional education for effective collaborative practice in Primary Healthcare
• Infectious diseases and evaluation of antimicrobial usage
• Antifungal usage evaluation in immunosuppressed patients
• Antibiotic Stewardship Program of antimicrobial agents
• Medication safety
• Geriatric medicines

Selected Publications

• Krishnamoorthy S, Li GHY, Ho KSC, Chau YP, Mak C, Ng D, Chung AKK, Chu JKP, Tan KCB, Hoo LC, Cheung CL. Illicit drug use is associated with lower bone mineral density and bone strength. Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia. Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia 2023 Sep; 9(3): 88–93.
• Ganotice F Jr, Zheng B, Ng PY, Leung SC, Chu KPJ...Towards a global partnership model in interprofessional education for cross-sector problem-solving. BMC Med Educ. 2023 Jun 20;23(1):457.
• Li GH, Lam SK, Wong IC, Chu JKP, Cheung CL. Education Attainment, Intelligence and COVID-19: A Mendelian Randomization Study. J Clin Med. 2021 Oct 22;10(21):4870.
• Chan LK, Ganotice F Jr, Wong FKY, Lau CS, Chu JKP... Implementation of an interprofessional team-based learning program involving seven undergraduate health and social care programs from two universities, and students' evaluation of their readiness for interprofessional learning. BMC Med Educ. 2017 Nov 21;17(1):221.
• Chan, PTY, Chu, JKP. A Drug Use Evaluation of Amoxicillin/Clavulanate in Hospital Setting: a Focus on Prescribing Patterns, HKPJ, 2017; 24 (1): 11-17.
• Sing, CW, Woo, YC, Lee, AC, Lam, JK, Chu, JKP, Wong, ICK, Cheung, CL. Validity of major osteoporotic fracture diagnosis codes in the Clinical Data Analysis and Reporting System in Hong Kong. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2017 Apr 3.
• Sing, CW, Wong, ICK, Cheung, BMY, Chan, JCY, Chu, JKP, Cheung, CL. Incidence and risk estimate of drug-induced agranulocytosis in Hong Kong Chinese. A population-based case-control study. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2017 Mar;26(3):248-255.
• Mak, CY, Chu, JKP. Antibiotic Stewardship Programme: Focusing on Ciprofloxacin. HKPJ. 2016; 23(4): 127-131.
• Chu, KPJ, Avent, M, Shaw R. Evaluation of Antifungal Treatment Guidelines for Immunosuppressed Patients. J Pharm Pract Res. 2010;40(2):119-123.
• Australian and New Zealand Antifungal Guidelines. (Member of the Guidelines Writing Committee). Internal Med. 2008;38:496-520.
• Chu, KPJ, Nyfort-Hansen K. Hypothermia associated with olanzapine. J Pharm Pract Res. 2005;35:216-8.

Selected Grants and Funding as Principal Investigator or co- investigator*

• Teaching Exchange Fellowship Grant to University of Queensland (2023)
• Teaching Development Grant, HKU (2023)*
  Creation and Integration of an Electronic Health Record Platform in Healthcare Education
• Teaching Development Grant, HKU (2023)*
  Journal Database to Strengthen Vertical Integration between Basic Sciences and Clinical Medicine across Multiple Curricula
• Teaching Development Grant, HKU (2022)
  An Integrative Module for First-year Pharmacy Students: Increasing Clinical Exposure and Enhancing Professional Identity
• Common Core Teaching Development Grant, HKU (2017)
  Development and Evaluation of Common Core Course CCST 9059 Poisons

Regular Student Consultation Hours