Leadership roles:
PMI Fellow supervisor
Specialist interests:
Peritoneal Malignancy
Colorectal
General Surgery
Training and education:
1. JAG Accreditation for colonoscopy -June 2025
2. Certificate of training in the technique of Pressurised IntraPeritoneal Aerosol Chemotherapy (PIPAC) – Apr 2025
3. Joint Committee on Intercollegiate Examinations -Intercollegiate Specialty Board in General Surgery Part 1 & 2 examination (Pass) (Feb 2024)
4. Fellowship of in the Specialty of General Surgery (FRCSEd (Gen.Surg)) (2024) (The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh)
5. European School of Peritoneal Surface Oncology Training Programme -completed (2024-2025)
6. Master of Science: Master of Health Service Management (2019-2021) (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
7. Advanced in Medicine Diploma (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)(PASS)
8. Da Vinci Xi Console Surgeon Training -Intuitive (Hong Kong) (Nov 2019)
9. Colorectal Surgery Subspecialty Training – Completed (2016-18) (The College of Surgeons of Hong Kong)
10. Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor The University of Hong Kong & The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2016-2022)
11. Overseas training in Colorectal Surgery (2017)
• The University of Oxford (United Kingdom) (Sept-Oct 2017)
• The National Cancer Centre (Japan) (Aug 2017)
• The Osaka Medical Centre for Cancer (Japan) (Jul 2017)
• The Osaka Medical College (Japan) (June 2017)
12. Fellowship in the Specialty of General Surgery (FRCSEd(Gen)) (2015)
(The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, The College of Surgeons of Hong Kong)
13. Membership of General Surgery (MRCS) (2007-2010) (The College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Hong Kong)
14. Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (2002-2007) (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Registrations:
• GMC reference number: 7839387
• GMC Specialist Registration (General Surgery) since 27 June 2024
• The Medical Council of Hong Kong
o Specialist Registration (General Surgery) Registration no: S28-0540 since 4 Nov 2015
o General Registration no: M15725 since 2 Aug 2008
Memberships:
• Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland - Member
• European Society of Coloproctology -Member
• The European Society of Surgical Oncology – Member
• Hong Kong Society for Coloproctology –Member
• Hong Kong Society of Minimal Access Surgery-Member
• Asian Peritoneal Surface Malignancy Group-Member
Peer reviewed papers:
- Cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy can be safely combined with nephrectomy in patients with appendiceal malignancy and synchronous renal cell carcinoma 2025
Accepted by Journal of Surgical Case Report
Siu Yan KOK, F. Mohamed, B.J. Moran, S. Dayal, A. Tzivanakis, R Hindley, A Emara, T Cecil
- The safety and efficacy of selective splenic flexure mobilisation in rectal cancer surgery -Experience from a tertiary hospital
Colorectal Cancer: Open Access Vol.10 No.1:04 (2024)
Siu Yan KOK, Jie Kun LIN, Kin Ming JOENG
- Bridging stenting for stenotic left-sided Colorectal tumor vs Emergency Colectomy
Colorectal Cancer: Open Access Vol.8 No.5:3 (2022)
James Tak-Kwan FUNG and Siu Yan KOK
- Improving Psychological Distress Screening in Colorectal Cancer Patients: A Mental Health Quality Improvement Project
Colorectal Cancer: Open Access Vol.7 No.5:1 Oct 2021
Siu Yan KOK, Chui Ping Florey LAM, Pui Yin TANG
- To evaluate the efficacy of intravenous iron therapy in optimizing anemia in colorectal cancer patients and closed loop audit of this pilot programme
Colorectal Cancer: Open Access 2021
Siu Yan KOK, Chui Ping Florey LAM, Pui Yin TAN
- Carbon Dioxide Embolism Associated With Total Mesorectal Excision Surgery: A Report from the International Registries
on behalf of the International TaTME Registry Collaborative
Diseases of the Colon & Rectum: Jul 2019 -Volume 62-Issue 7-p794-801
*Dr Siu Yan KOK, United Christian Hospital as one of the TaTME Registry Collaborative members and centres
- Local Recurrence and Disease-Free Survival After Transanal Total Mesorectal Excision: Results From the International TaTME Registry
Sapho X. Roodbeen, MD1; Marta Penna, MBBS, MRCS2; Susan van Dieren, PhD3; Brendan Moran, MD, FRCS4;
Paris Tekkis, MD (Lon), HonD, FRCS5; Pieter J. Tanis, MD, PhD1; and Roel Hompes, MD, PhD1;
on behalf of the International TaTME Registry Collaborative
Roodbeen. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN (2021) ISSN: 1540-1405 Online ISSN: 1540-1413
*Dr Siu Yan KOK, United Christian Hospital as one of the TaTME Registry Collaborative members and centres
- Transanal Endoscopic Operation (TEO) for Early Rectal Neoplasm—Experience from a tertiary centre
Online publication in the Colorectal Disease supplement 2020 -p199
Amy SY KOK
United Christian Hospital
First published: 21 September 2020
https://ezproxy2.corp.ha.org.hk:2109/10.1111/codi.15332
- The role of human papillomavirus in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: A case control study on a southern Chinese population
J Med Virol. 2016 May;88(5):877-87
Chor JS, Vlantis AC, Chow TL, Fung SC, Ng FY, Lau CH, Chan AB, Ho LC, Kwong WH, Fung MN, Lam EW, Mak KL, Lam HC, Kok AS, Ho WC, Yeung AC, Chan PK.J Med Virol. 2016 May;88(5):877-87. doi: 10.1002/jmv.24405. Epub 2015 Nov 3.PMID: 26467027
- The selective use of laparoscopic repair is safe in high-risk patients suffering from perforated peptic ulcer
World Journal of Surgery 2015 39:740–745
2015 Mar;39(3):740-5.doi: 10.1007/s00268-014-2851-1
TEOH AYB, CHIU PWY, KOK SY, WONG SKH, NG KW, Prince of Wales Hospital
- MRI as the initial investigation for patients with clinically suspected NPC
AJNR Am J Neuroradio 27:1288-91
A.D.KING, AC VLANTIS, TSANG RKY, TMK GARY, KOK SY, Prince of Wales Hospital
- Practice of breastfeeding and factors that affect breastfeeding in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Med J Vol 12 No.6 2006
CW WONG, KOK SY Prince of Wales Hospital