The year 2025 sees the 50th anniversary of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), and 2026 marks the 20th anniversary of the formation of the Biomedical Discipline in HKIE. I feel honoured to be elected as the Chairman of the Biomedical Division (BMD) for the Session 2025/2026, to wend and witness the journey with my fellow engineers across these memorable milestones. 

 

Engineering touches people’s everyday life.  As biomedical engineers, we serve to enhance people’s health and well-being by applying engineering principles for medical purposes.  Compared to other professionals, biomedical engineers may be small in number, but we are never alone in our quest for technological excellence.  Because of its inter-disciplinary nature, diversity of applications, and rapidity in advancement, biomedical engineering is one of the professions which often conceive innovations and new technologies. BMD would continue to attract new blood, muster biomedical engineering experts, connect academia, trades and industries, liaise with the public sector, and outreach mainland counterparts with a view to fostering a healthy growth of biomedical engineering profession, as well as driving the smart and sustainable application of innovations and technologies (I&T) in the Greater Bay Area and worldwide. 

 

This session, through organising a wide spectrum of activities including membership drive campaigns, networking events, career seminars and technical visits to Mainland China, BMD will continue to widen the discipline’s exposure and enrich the services to our members.  In an era of rapid technological advancement, the Biomedical Conference 2026 scheduled for early 2026, as a commemorative event for the 20th anniversary of HKIE Biomedical Discipline, will provide an excellent platform for experts in regulation, research and entrepreneurship to connect and explore possibilities for advancement of healthcare technologies and development of biomedical engineering solution.

 

As an international city and an aging society, Hong Kong relies on the expertise of many professionals, including biomedical engineers, to make our healthcare system affordable, reliable, and sustainable. Descrying the possible enactment of legislation for medical device regulation, BMD will continue to proactively voice our opinions on this topic and manoeuvre to have the contribution of biomedical engineers perceived.

 

Meeting our targets will not be successful without you. Please render your support to make pleasant the BMD journey.  Thank you.

 

Ir CHOW Yuk Ki, Yorkie

Chairman of Biomedical Division

Session 2025/2026