Dr. Leung Kit Ting (PhD, Registered Social Worker) is a lecturer at the Department of Social Work at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (SWK/CUHK). She is an experienced social work practitioner in healthcare and multi-sectoral setting. Her expertise is in social work palliative care for cancer and non-cancer patients, end of life care and advanced care planning. She works on patients and families’ health-care decision-making dilemma, chronic disease management and patient support group service. She not only works on social work intervention with people having acute, chronic and terminal illnesses, but she also embraces the strength of achieving common goal and synergy of work in an inter-professional collaboration.

At present, she is the clinical practitioner and member at “Family and Group Practice and Research Center” (SWK/CUHK) and she is recognized as the Fellow of the Asian Academy of Family Therapy. Her expertise is to work with children and families with crisis of child maltreatment, parenting difficulties, rare diseases as well as adolescents’ mental health challenges, substance abuse, emotional and behavioral issues. Her research interests are ranging from family-based intervention, child protection, palliative care and social work in health care to program evaluation and practice-based research.