Dr. Lam Yat Yin is the founder and director of Centre Medical Group, also currently serving as the director of the Hong Kong Asia Heart Centre at Canossa Hospital (Caritas). Graduating with John Anderson Gold Medal from the University of Hong Kong in 1999, Dr. Lam pursued specialized training in cardiology, encompassing general cardiology and percutaneous coronary intervention at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong, as well as transesophageal echo imaging and structural intervention at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London.

Dr. Lam has served in various academic positions of several international conferences on congenital and structural heart disease in the Asia-Pacific region (such as LAA Hong Kong/Shanghai (2012), LAA Seoul (2013), CSI LAA Asia Pacific (2013 – 2017), APCASH (2013 – 2017) ), and has been invited to give academic lectures and surgical demonstrations to many countries in Europe, America, and Asia.

Dr. Lam also holds various positions, including Chairman of the Asia Pacific Structural Heart Club and leadership positions in various professional societies. He is also one of the founders of China Structural Heart Disease Week. In addition, Dr. Lam and Lifetech (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. jointly developed the left atrial appendage occlusion device LAmbre™.

Dr. Lam is currently the associate editor of JACC Asia, the journal of the American College of Cardiology. He was also the deputy editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Cardiology – Cardiac Interventions, an authoritative international journal, and published more than 300 peer-reviewed research papers and abstracts.