Professor Juliana Chan is Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics and Director, Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital. She is a physician researcher specialised in endocrinology and clinical pharmacology.

Since 1995, she led a multidisciplinary team to change the setting and logistics and establish the Hong Kong Diabetes Register as a quality improvement program, accompanied by a biobank for multiomic analysis to improve precision of disease classification for personalized care. In 2007, she founded the Asia Diabetes Foundation to design the first web-based Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation (JADE) Technology and use data to drive decisions at patient, provider and policy levels.

Professor Chan has published 900 articles and 20 book chapters whilst the CUHK-PWH is recognized as an International Diabetes Federation Centre of Excellence in Diabetes Care. She serves on steering committees of international studies and practice guidelines and government research and healthcare policies related to diabetes and non-communicable diseases.

She is a recipient of the American Diabetes Association Harold Rifkin Award for Distinguished International Service in the Cause of Diabetes and leads The Lancet Commission Report advocating the use of data to transform diabetes care and patient lives.