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Director, Centre for Sports and Exercise

Dr. Michael Tse is the Director of the Centre for Sports and Exercise. His role is to lead, manage and enhance the Centre’s core areas in sport, health & wellbeing, exercise medicine and the provision and operation of top notch sports facilities with the aim of enhancing student and staff experiences and participation in sport and physical activity, as well as to engage the community and address HKU’s outreach in these areas. Additionally, his role encompasses broadening sport and recreation program services and facility developments across the campus to provide world-class opportunities and sports facility provisions for students that will help to positively influence them across a lifespan.

Having guided the establishment of the Active Health Clinic (AHC) at the University of Hong Kong, the Clinic has been instrumental in enhancing campus physical activity levels through the Exercise is Medicine on Campus (EIMOC) platform. The work done by AHC in promoting EIMOC together with the University’s UHS team has brought the ACSM Gold Level Campus Recognition to HKU for the past 3 years. The Clinic has also served as a hub for exercise-related academic and service collaborations with many University faculties. Dr. Tse’s research interests are focused around exercise and use of “exercise as a medicine” in various populations including elderly, diabetics, cancer patients, and high performance athletes, collaborating with top HKU scientists in medicine, social sciences and engineering to discover ways to improve health outcomes through scientific technologies.

Additionally, with over a decade of experience as the Head of Strength and Conditioning Department at the Hong Kong Sports Institute, Michael was involved in training athletes and consulting coaches in all the Institute’s sports. During his stint he worked with most of Hong Kong's top athletes, including Olympic, world champion and Asian Games medalists from sports such as cycling, fencing, rowing, swimming, track & field, triathlon, windsurfing, wushu, and numerous racket and other ball sports. Michael was a pioneer in the field of strength and conditioning in Hong Kong and Asia and is frequently invited as a speaker at various conferences and symposia both in the Asian region and overseas.

Besides extensive background in both management and coaching, Michael was himself a member of the Hong Kong National Rowing team from 1993 to 1999, during which time 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 medallist in the single scull at the Asian Rowing Championships in 1995 and 1997. He was also a finalist in the 1994 and 1998 Asian Games. He also played American football, lacrosse and earned a black belt in Karate in Japan. He continues to engage in exercise and sports performance as part of an active lifestyle.

Dr. Tse is a board member of the Hong Kong Sports Institute, member of the SF&OC’s Hong Kong Olympic Academy, the first international member of the ACSM EIMOC Committee, an honorary advisor for The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation and honorary research fellow with the Sau Po Centre on Aging. He is also a member and Director of Studies of the Hong Kong Olympic Academy of the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China and President of the Hong Kong Olympians Association. He holds a PhD in exercise science, an MBA and a BSc in sport and physical education. Michael is also ACSM Clinical Exercise Physiologist certified, and holds NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and Certified Personal Trainer certifications.

Email: matse@hku.hk

Operations and Business Development Manager and Acting Head of Sports and Recreation

Chi Wah is the Operations and Business Development Manager of the Centre for Sports and Exercise. Her role is to manage the effective and efficient operations of the CSE facilities for the delivery of high level events and programs.

Besides being one of the core staff established the Active Health Clinic under CSE, her over 20-year career has spanned various arms of the Hong Kong sporting sector, working in event organization, sports administration and management.

She holds a Masters Degree in Exercise Science (Strength & Conditioning) from the Edith Cowan University. As a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist for over 15 years, she is also an ACSM Certified Cancer Exercise Trainer and ISCD Certified Bone Densitometry Technologist (CBDT). With the background of being a national elite gymnast in her young age, she is also a certified international gymnastics judge and technical committee member in the Gymnastics Association of Hong Kong, China.

Email: chiwah_lau@hku.hk

Exercise Physiologist
Head of Active Health Clinic

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