Dr. Lau is a Conjoint Senior Lecturer, UNSW; a Senior Endocrinologist & Consultant with Liverpool Hospital and a Senior Fellow with the Liverpool Diabetes Collaboration, Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Research.
He has clinical expertise in cardio-metabolic medicine including complex obesity and diabetes management, diabetes in the hospital, diabetic foot diseases and endocrinology.
He is engaged with research exploring management of...view more
Dr. Lau is a Conjoint Senior Lecturer, UNSW; a Senior Endocrinologist & Consultant with Liverpool Hospital and a Senior Fellow with the Liverpool Diabetes Collaboration, Ingham Institute of Applied Medical Research.
He has clinical expertise in cardio-metabolic medicine including complex obesity and diabetes management, diabetes in the hospital, diabetic foot diseases and endocrinology.
He is engaged with research exploring management of in-patient hyperglycaemia, assessing and reducing cardio-metabolic, drug therapies for diabetic complications, and novel treatments of complex diabetic foot disease. His prior doctoral research explored appetite and satiety hormones and macronutrients in regulating food intake, body weight & overweight and obesity in the area of obesity related weight loss and weight maintenance and he maintains a strong clinical interest in management of weight in cardio-metabolic conditions.
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My Qualifications
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Medical Science (Hons), FRACP, PhD
My Research Supervision
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Areas of supervision
Independent Learning Project (Honours), Masters, PhD
Currently supervising
Supervision
From 2014 to current time, I have supervised to completion over half dozen UNSW ILP and Honours candidates and three externally enrolled Masters candidates.
From 2019 to current time, have supervised multiple groups of WSU Undergraduate Medical Programme research project candidates
From 2021 to 2024: primary supervisor of UNSW HDR research candidate.
From 2011 - 2014, supervised several USyd Medical Programme research candidates through to completion.
Active projects:
We are currently running multiple projects in complex diabetes & diabetic foot including data driven diabetic foot outcomes; assessing cardio-metabolic risk; measuring social factors and impact on disease progression, in-patient glycaemic metrics and tracking in-patient related diabetes events.
With Ingham colleagues, I am involved in projects examining the microbiome of diabetic foot diseases.
Opportunities for prospective ILP candidates:
Be supported in your transition from student to junior researcher in terms of learning good clinical practice, data entry and cleaning, implementation of protocols, entry level bio-statistics and support in manuscript writing.
Involvement in the above active projects that have already received regulatory clearance, are already up and running and where you can work with other researchers in a collaborative team environment.
We have ample amounts of collected and cleaned data into diabetic foot clinical outcomes, their microbial profiles, cardio-metabolic risk, medication adherence and diabetic foot during Covid and afterwards that is very suitable for a (supported) junior researcher to analyse and craft into papers suitable for presentation at national diabetes and wound conferences. Significant junior research work will be acknowledged in the publications and manuscripts that may arise from our projects.
Supervision includes access to our research space in the Ingham institute, admin support, support from our own research staff and regular access to and support from supervisors with a strong track record working with junior staff.
My Teaching
Undergraduate Medical Programme, South West Sydney Clinical School, UNSW
Junior Medical Officer Education Programme, Liverpool Hospital
Basic Physician Trainee Programme, Liverpool Hospital
Basic Physician Trainee Clinical Examination - Clinical Mentor, Liverpool Hospital
Supervisor, Advanced Training in Endocrinology, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Clinical Examiner for Australian Medical Council
Clinical Examiner for Royal Australasian College of Physicians
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