Co-Director (Data Science), Medical Data Analytics Centre (MDAC)
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
| Education | BSc (CUHK), MPhil (CUHK), PhD (CUHK) |
| Expertise | chronic viral hepatitis, MASLD/MAFLD, risk modelling, routinely collected health data |
| Research Interests | Epidemiology of chronic liver diseases by healthcare databases and big data approaches |
| Researcher ID | ABH-3221-2021 |
| ORCID iD | 0000-0002-1819-2464 |
| tcfyip@cuhk.edu.hk | |
| @TerryYip12 | |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-cheuk-fung-yip |
Terry obtained his BSc in Statistics with First Class Honours, MPhil in Risk Management Science, and PhD in Medical Sciences from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. During his PhD, he served as a visiting research fellow at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore. Since 2014, he has been devoted to large-scale real-world clinical data research to understand the epidemiology, natural history, assessment, treatment, and clinical outcome prediction of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) through cutting-edge statistical analyses and data analytics. He established one of the largest cohorts of patients with CHB who achieved hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) seroclearance with long-term follow-up (J Hepatol 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023). He is also a Principal Investigator in the VCTE-Prognosis study, an international multicenter cohort study currently involving 16 centers with 18,000 patients with MASLD, focusing on the use of vibration-controlled transient elastography (VCTE) and other non-invasive tests for long-term clinical outcome predictions (JAMA 2024, Gut 2024, J Hepatol 2025). He has over 190 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
His achievements include receiving the Young Investigator Award of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) Annual Meetings in 2018, 2022, and 2023, as well as the Early Career Investigator Award in Clinical/Translational Science of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) Meeting in 2020, and The Best Poster Presentation Award: Viral Hepatitis - Clinical of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) Congress in 2024.
He is currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Hepatology and serves on the editorial boards of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, and Hepatology Communications. Additionally, he is now the Communication Lead for the AASLD HBV SIG, a Baveno VIII panelist on cirrhosis recompensation, and the co-organiser of the AASLD-APASL Young Investigator Workshop in the APASL Annual Meeting.