Luen Bik To

Background

To, Luen Bik was born on July 14, 1949 in Hong Kong. Son of Sik Ling and Sui Ying To. arrived in Australia, 1975.

Education

B.M.B.S., U. Hong Kong, 1973; Doctor of Medicine, U. Adelaide, South Australia, 1985.

Career

Intern, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, 1973-1974; medical officer, United Christian Hospital, Kwuntong, Hong Kong, 1974; temporary lecturer internal medicine, U. Hong Kong, 1974-1975; basic physician trainee, Royal Adelaide Hospital, 1975-1979; locum in general practice, Adelaide, 1979; medical registrar, Royal Adelaide Hospital, 1979-1980; registrar division haematology, Institute Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, 1980-1981, 83-87; research fellow division haematology, Institute Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, 1981-1983; senior registrar, Institute Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, 1987; haematologist-in-charge Leukaemia Research Unit, Institute Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, 1987-1991; director Leukaemia Research Unit, Hanson Center for Cancer Research, Adelaide, 1992-1994; director clinical science and research division haematology, Hanson Center for Cancer Research, Adelaide, 1994-1995; acting clinical director, Hanson Center for Cancer Research, Adelaide, 1995-1996; acting head haematology, IMVS/Royal Adelaide Hospital, since 1995. Senior visiting haematologist Royal Adelaide Hospital, 1992-1994. Clinical senior lecturer department medicine U. Adelaide, since 1989.

Visiting research associate section haematology/oncology University of Chicago Medical Center, 1989. Visiting scientist Applied Cellular Bioloty Center, Baxter healthcare corporation, Round Lake, Illinois, 1989. Vis.Stephen Chang professor medicine U. Hong Kong, 1992-1993, visiting professor medicine, 1996-1997.

Consultant on hemopoietic cell therapy Immunotherapy Group, Baxter healthcare corporation, 1994-1995. Member reviewer panel National Health andMed. Research Council, State Anti-Cancer Foundation of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia, others.

Member international science committee of 1st Symposium on Peripheral Bllood Autografting, 1989, 2d, 1991, 3d, 1993, 5th, 1997. Co-chairman 4th International Symposium on Blood Cell Transplantation, Adelaide, 1996, others. Member Autologous Bone Marrow Transplant registry Breast Cancer Working Committee, since 1996, Multiple Myeloma Working Committee, since 1996.

Member working party on bone marrow transplantation Australian Health Technology Advisory Committee of National Health and Medical Research Council, 1996. Lecturer in field.

Achievements

• Luen Bik To has been listed as a noteworthy Haematologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Royal College Pathologists of Australasia (education and science subcom.1987-1989), Royal Australasian College Physicians. Member Royal College Physicians of United Kingdom, Haematology Society of Australia (A.J. Baikie Memorial Medal 1983), International Society Experimental Haematology, International Society Hematotherapy and Graft Engineering (vice president Pacific Region since 1993, co-chairman graft evaluation subcommittee since 1994), American Society Haematology, Australian Leukemia Study Group, Apheresis Association Australia, Health Informatic Society South Australia.

Connections

Married Che Hang Lau. 3 children.

Father:

Sik Ling

Mother:

Sui Ying To

Spouse:

Che Hang Lau