Professor Gary Wong obtained his undergraduate medical education from the University of Alberta, Canada. He subsequently received fellowship training at the Children’s Hospital of British Columbia and visiting Fellowship at the Children’s Hospital at Munich, Germany. Prof Wong’s main research interests are treatment, control and prevention of respiratory disorders including asthma, wheezing illness and respiratory infections in children. He has published over 400 indexed original research articles and review articles in his field. He is a Past President of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Pediatric Allergy, Respirology and Immunology (APAPARI). He has been one of the Board of Directors of the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA). He is one of the current Board of Directors of the World Allergy Organization, one of the steering committee members of the ISAAC (International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood) research group. Among other duties within many editorial boards, he is also an associate editor of New England Journal of Medicine.
