Prof. Cecilia Chan is Si Yuan Professor in Health and Social Work at HKU. She is also director of the HKJC-HKU ExCEL3 Project, and Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee, The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation.

She is an experienced social worker renowned for her creative innovations of integrating eastern philosophies and practices into her integrative therapy as well as her work on psychosocial oncology, end-of-life care, health and mental health, death and bereavement studies. Prof. Chan is the editor and author of over 30 books and author of over two hundred articles and book chapters in eastern integrative empowerment intervention and outcome research, chronic illness, community rehabilitation, fertility and sterility, death and loss, bereavement and palliative care. She is also the Member of the International Workgroup on Death, Dying and Bereavement. She is an excellent speaker and has been invited to deliver named lectures and keynote addresses in major international conferences on social work and health care.