Wai-Kei Lo (Hong Kong)

Past President of the ISPD

Dr. Wai-Kei Lo is currently the Honorary Clinical Professor of the University of Hong Kong and was the Consultant Physician and director of renal service of Tung Wah Hospital. After graduation from the University of Hong Kong in 1980, his interest in peritoneal dialysis budded when he participated in the first PD program in Hong Kong as a resident in 1982. The subsequent blooming of PD in Hong Kong and his joining the University of Hong Kong in 1990 provided him more clinical and research experience in PD. He has been the principal co-coordinator of Asian Chapter since its inception in 2001 until he takes up the Presidency at the Hong Kong Congress 2006. He has many publications in the field of peritoneal dialysis and is the chief author of the ISPD guideline on solute and fluid removal.