Wendy Wing Tak Lam

Dr. Wendy WT Lam is an Associate Professor and the head of the Division of Behavioural Sciences at the School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong.

She is an academic director of the Master of Public Health Program. Wendy is the founding director of the HKU Jockey Club Institute of Cancer Care (JCICC). She is an active contributor to the International Psycho-oncology Society, currently the President of IPOS. She was awarded the 2007 Hiroomi Kawano Young Investigator Award by the International Psycho-Oncology Society for her work on Chinese women with breast cancer.

She was also awared the 2023 Distinguished Merit Award by the International Society of Nurses Cancer Care. Her research interests focus on psychosocial adaptation patterns and service optimization in cancer patients. She is the principal investigator in research programs, including studies on fear of cancer recurrence and progression for cancer survivors and patients living with advanced cancer, return to work and activity impairment after cancer diagnosis, implementation of symptom distress screening, and optimization of cancer survivorship.

She is currently leading the JCICC team to develop a care model that integrates psychosocial services into routine cancer care. Under her directorship, JCICC recently established the first cancer survivorship clinic in Hong Kong offering support in managing post-treatment symptoms, as well as personalized diet and physical activity advice. She has produced over 200 outputs. She is the co-editor of the 4th Edition of Psycho-oncology Textbook. She is appointed Associate Editor for Psycho-oncology and for Patient Education and Counseling.