Selected Speakers
Our speakers are all distinguished members from the IC4CH Consortium

Prof. Olga Zayts
Director, Centre for the Humanities and Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
IC4CH Member

Professor of Language and Health
Department of Culture, Communication and Media, Centre for Applied Linguistics, University College London
IC4CH Member

President’s Chair Professor in Communication Studies, Nanyang Technological University
IC4CH Member

Prof. Elena Semino
Co-Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University
IC4CH Member

Prof. Diana Slade
Director of the Institute for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH Founding Member), Australian National University
IC4CH Member

Prof. Jennifer Watermeyer
Director, Health Communication Research Unit (IC4CH Member), University of the Witwatersrand
IC4CH Member

Prof. SHUANGYU LI
Director of King’s Cultural Competency, King’s College London

Prof. Elizabeth Rider
Director, Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School Faculty Fellowships in Humanism & Professionalism, and Interprofessional Leadership
IC4CH Affiliate Member

Prof. Jo Angouri
Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Warwick

Prof. Yihong Gao
School of Foreign Languages, Peking University

Prof. Mariana Lazzaro-Salazar
Associate Professor, Centro de Investigación de Estudios Avanzados, Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile
organizing committee
Prof. olga zayts

Chair of the Organizing Committee
Director
Centre for the Humanities and Medicine
Faculty of Arts
The University of Hong Kong
Dr. brian king

Associate Director
Centre for the Humanities and Medicine
Faculty of Arts
The University of Hong Kong
Prof. Paul Wong

Associate Professor
Department of Social Work and Social Administration
Faculty of Social Sciences
The University of Hong Kong
dR. VINCENT TSE

Senior Research Assistant
Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare
School of English
The University of Hong Kong
Mr. ANGUS CHAN
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Symposium Manager
Research Manager
PA to Professor Olga Zayts
Centre for the Humanities and Medicine
Faculty of Arts
The University of Hong Kong
mS. FLORA LAM

Assistant Project Officer
Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare
School of English
The University of Hong Kong
mR. Farrukh AKHMEDOV

Student Ambassador
Research and Impact Initiative on Communication in Healthcare
School of English, The University of Hong Kong
