Director, Centre for Sports and Exercise
Honorary Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy
Honorary Research Fellow, Sau Po Centre on Ageing

Michael is the Director of the Active Health Clinic and the Assistant Director at the Centre for Sports and Exercise. His role is to develop special projects within the Institute and overseeing the Active Health Clinic. Michael has over 20 years of experience in the health & fitness industries, having worked in numerous countries such as Germany, Japan, Hong Kong and the USA.

Having worked as the Head of Strength and Conditioning Department in Hong Kong Sports Institute for over 14 years, Michael was involved in training and assisting all of HK's top athletes at that time, including athletes from the sports of swimming, cycling, track & field, triathlon, windsurfing, rowing, soccer, and numerous racket sports. Michael is a leading expert in the field of strength and conditioning in Asia and is frequently invited as a speaker at various conferences and symposia both in the Asian region and overseas.

Besides extensive coaching background, Michael himself is also an accomplished athlete in Hong Kong. While he was competing for the Hong Kong National Rowing team from 1993 to 1999, he was the number one ranked single-sculler in Hong Kong. Some highlights of his rowing career include qualification for the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, and two-time silver medalist at the Asian Rowing Championships in 1995 & 1997. He was also a finalist in the 1994 and 1998 Asian Games, and won other numerous accolades at Hong Kong Rowing Championships. He also competed at collegiate level American Football, played Lacrosse and has a black belt in Karate.

Michael is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, NSCA-Certified Personal Trainer, and is ACSM Exercise Physiologist certified.

Email: matse@hku.hk

Assistant Director

Mee Lee Chan joined the University from the Christian Alliance S C Chan Memorial College in Tuen Mun in 1992.

As an Assistant Director, she manages all sports facilities of HKU located at Pokfulam and Sandy Bay. She is an active age-group swimming coach and holds Level 3 coaching accreditation from both the Hong Kong and American Swimming Coaches Associations. She served as a coach with the Hong Kong team at the International Age Group Invitation in Taiwan, June 1999, as coach and team manager of the team which competed in FINA World Cup competitions in Europe, February 2000 and as coach with the Hong Kong age-group team at the Asian Swimming Championships in August 2000. She was awarded the Coach of the year in 1997 and 2002 by the Hong Kong Swimming Coaches Association.

Ms Chan presented a paper focusing on the causal attributions for success and failure in academics of age-group swimmers at the International Sports Medicine Congress, held in Hong Kong in January 1997. She holds a BPE degree from Springfield College (1991), an Med from the University of Hong Kong (1996) and the Doctor of Education from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014).

Email: mlchana@hku.hk

Exercise Physiologist
Honorary Assistant Professor

Glen is the Exercise Physiologist at the Active Health Clinic. Part of his role is to develop and run services provided by the AHC including health and wellness, sports performance and physical fitness.

Glen holds a Masters degree in Sport and Exercise Science with Honours from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. In his time there he also provided sports science services in biomechanics, exercise physiology, strength and conditioning and anthropometry with New Zealand's National teams including such sports as softball, basketball, golf, rugby league, soccer, and Paralympics. He also has experience working with rehabilitation and corporate health and fitness providing such services as sport and work injury rehabilitation, pre-employment health screening and workstation assessment.

Having been involved in his chosen sport of basketball for more than 20 years, Glen has played professionally in New Zealand and China and currently in Hong Kong.

Email: glenj@hku.hk