Ronald Ma is Professor at the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Honorary Consultant Physician, Prince of Wales Hospital, and Head of Division of Endocrinology and Diabetes (Academic affairs).
Dr Ma completed his medical training at the University of Cambridge, UK and trained in Internal Medicine in London. He subsequently returned to Hong Kong, where he completed his endocrinology fellowship training. Through support from a Croucher Foundation Fellowship, he furthered his research interest in the area of diabetic complications at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, under the mentorship of Dr George King.
Dr Ma’s research focuses on the epidemiology and genetics of diabetes and its complications, gestational diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, and endocrine disorders. He is currently leading a multi-disciplinary project team to leverage on the large Hong Kong Diabetes Register and accompanying biobank to identify novel molecular markers for diabetic complications, and is the principal investigator of the Hong Kong Diabetes Biobank. His laboratory is also undertaking multi-omics studies in GDM. He has published over 300 research articles in international peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Nature Genetics, Lancet, JAMA, Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Kidney International, and authored 13 book chapters. Dr Ma is a recipient of several awards, including the Young Investigator Award from the International Diabetes Epidemiology Group (IDEG), Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award, Hong Kong (2009), the Albert Renold Fellowship from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (2010), the Research Excellence Award (2011) and the Outstanding Fellowship of Faculty of Medicine from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014), and the Sir David Todd Lectureship from the Hong Kong College of Physicians (2015), Croucher Senior Medical Research Fellowship (2019).