Philip Tsang was a senior academic member of staff at the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK).
He was conferred the OUHK President's Award for Excellent Teaching and Research in 2006, 2007 and
in 2009. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE. Prof. Tsang
has published widely in SCI journals. He is author of eight ICT and education books. He was a graduate
of Washington University, USA. Dr Tsang has been the conference chair of the Int’l ICT conference
series: Enhancing Healthcare Education, Research and Practice since 2006. He is editor of five international journals in the areas of Teaching & Learning, Mobile Communications, Education, Finance and
Health. Dr Tsang is an advisor of the Hong Kong Doctors’ Union. Dr Tsang is Chair Professor and Vice
President (Academic and Research) of the Caritas Francis Hsu College, and Caritas College of Careers.
One of his current projects is to amalgamate Caritas’ 4-year and 2-year colleges to lay the foundation
for the first Catholic University in Hong Kong, SAR, China. Philip would like to give special thanks to
his wife Dr Sandy Tse for her support during the project activities in the past 12 months. This project
has also benefited from the research grants (27/QEGS/A-08-09) from the Quality Enhancement Grant
Scheme of the Education Bureau; (6/21)(R189-2)(ST-08/09-2) from The Open University of Hong Kong;
and (HK-R1209) from Johnson & Johnson. For these, Philip wants to thank the Education Bureau,
Caritas-HK, and Diabetes Team of the United Christian Hospital, The Open University of Hong Kong,
and Johnson & Johnson research committees.