Macau · Greater Bay Area · International

Chonin Cheang

Physician-researcher, health economist, and healthcare entrepreneur. Building the clinical–research–industry–policy interface for obesity, metabolic disease, and AI-enabled healthcare across the Greater Bay Area and beyond.

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20+
Peer-reviewed papers
6
Books & chapters
24
Journals reviewed
6
Patents filed

01 / About

A clinician who builds companies,
and a founder who publishes.

Chonin Cheang is a Macau-based physician-researcher trained at Jinan University (MBBS), a PhD researcher in Biomedicine at the University of Macau, and a graduate of the University of Glasgow's Health Technology Assessment programme.

His work sits at the intersection of clinical medicine, health economics, digital health, and cross-border industrialisation. He leads the Medical Research Department at Macau Yinkui Hospital, serves as founding President of the Macau Society for Health Economics, and holds directorships across publishing, education, biotechnology, and youth-innovation platforms in Macau, the Greater Bay Area, and mainland China.

He has authored or co-authored over twenty peer-reviewed papers — including work in Theranostics, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Frontiers in Oncology, and Frontiers in Public Health — authored or co-edited six books and chapters, holds multiple patents, and reviews for 24 international journals. He writes a regular column for Macau Cultural Tourism News on health policy and healthcare-industry development.

02 / Roles & Affiliations

Concurrent positions across clinic,
industry, and policy.

Macau Society for Health Economics

Founding President

Established 2024 as Macau's first learned society dedicated to health economics. Convener of the inaugural Greater Bay Area Health Economics Forum (Jan 2025). Partners include the Guangdong Society for Health Economics, HK Bio-Medical Innovation Association, Guangdong Medical Valley, and BGI.

healtheconomics.org.mo →

Macau Yinkui Hospital

Head, Medical Research Department

A private tertiary hospital in Macau established 2014, providing general and specialist outpatient, radiological, surgical, and endoscopic services. Sister institution to a 1,500-bed tertiary hospital under construction in Jiangmen, Guangdong.

China Health Economics Society

Standing Director

National academic society under the supervision of China's National Health Commission. Formulates health-economic policy research, organises national conferences, and coordinates 30+ specialty branches across China's health economics community.

International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity — Youth Chapter

Asia-Pacific Committee Member

Young IFSO is the global platform for early-career bariatric and metabolic surgeons, training the next generation of specialists through fellowships, webinars, and scientific programming under the parent IFSO federation.

Henan HK–Macao Youth Innovation & Entrepreneurship Service Center

Director · Zhengzhou

Government-backed cross-border service platform bridging Henan Province with Hong Kong and Macau youth entrepreneurs — providing policy consultation, incubation, financing, and mainland-market landing support.

hhmyc.cn →

Intelligent Surgical Shandong Engineering Research Center

Researcher

Provincial engineering research center in Shandong dedicated to intelligent surgical systems, robotic-assisted procedures, and clinical translation of AI-driven surgical technologies.

Macau Youth Think-Tank

Vice President

Independent policy research organisation drawing on Macau's next generation of professionals to advise on youth affairs, cross-border development, and public policy.

Macau Medical Alliance — Youth Committee

Committee Member

Umbrella body coordinating Macau's healthcare professional associations; the Youth Committee focuses on next-generation clinician leadership and cross-border medical collaboration.

Ventures

Companies and platforms
I lead or co-found.

Open to strategic partnerships, distribution, and co-investment across each entity.

Vice President · since 2026

Hongwen Publishing Group

Macau SAR

Academic and professional publishing house based in Macau, producing scholarly books and journals in health economics, clinical medicine, and public policy. Current titles include Macau Medical Pioneer: From the Integration of East and West and the Comparative Study of Medical Tourism monograph.

General Manager · since 2025

Xiao'ao Technology

Macau · Nansha

Product and technology company operating in the Macau–Nansha corridor. Focus on AI-driven consumer and clinical digital-health products, IoT device integration, and cross-border commercialisation of Macau-originated medical software.

Executive Director / GBA Regional Head · since 2024

UniHive Education Group · Zeyon Education

Cambridge, UK · Macau SAR · GBA

Cambridge-based international-education platform delivering Cambridge-originated summer courses, advanced research programmes, and university partnerships — with a full-service overseas-study pathway for HK, Macau, and Taiwan students through its Zeyon Education arm in the Greater Bay Area.

unihive.education →

Director · since 2024

Henan HK–Macao Youth Innovation Center

Zhengzhou, Henan · China

Government-backed youth innovation and entrepreneurship service centre linking Henan Province with Hong Kong and Macau — policy consultation, incubation, financing, and mainland-market landing support for early-stage teams.

hhmyc.cn →

Co-Founder · since 2025

Ye Qianyuan Biotechnology

Greater Bay Area

Biotechnology venture developing intellectual property in targeted therapeutics and biomedical instrumentation for the Greater Bay Area healthcare market.

Developer · since 2025

Region Computer

Macau SAR

Software development studio focused on regional productivity tooling and workflow platforms serving Macau's cross-border professional community.

region.mo →

03 / Feature Product

MetaO

An AI-driven obesity and metabolic-disease management platform integrating clinical decision support, patient stratification, and outcome tracking — building toward regional deployment across the Greater Bay Area healthcare system.

Clinical decision support AI stratification Outcome tracking GBA deployment

Research

From the bench
to the bedside — to policy.

Grants across clinical translation, health-technology assessment, and cross-border industrialisation.

01

Obesity & metabolic surgery

Bariatric and metabolic surgery outcomes, global cost-effectiveness of bariatric care, three-port laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy safety and efficacy, vitamin D management in obese patients, and international variations in post-operative practice (PARTNER study).

Bariatric surgery · Sleeve gastrectomy · Metabolic disease · Cost-effectiveness · Vitamin D

02

AI & digital health

Multimodal, risk-stratified AI frameworks for early risk prediction and personalised prevention in obesity; EEG-IoT dual-stream models for early detection of mild cognitive impairment; explainable multimodal AI and neuro-symbolic clinical decision support for chronic disease management.

AI in healthcare · Risk stratification · EEG-IoT · Digital health · Clinical decision support

03

Health economics & HTA

Systematic reviews of global cost-effectiveness evidence in bariatric and metabolic surgery, comparative health-technology assessment, medical-tourism policy analysis, and strategic planning for enhanced healthcare access in Macau.

Health economics · HTA · Cost-effectiveness · Medical tourism · Health policy

04

Sepsis, immunology & endocrinology

Aggregation-induced-emission DNA fluorescence as a pan-marker of cell death, senescence, and sepsis; serum uric acid and severe obesity; clinical diagnosis and treatment of endocrine diseases; diabetic nephropathy pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management.

Sepsis · Immunology · Uric acid · Diabetic nephropathy · Endocrinology

05

Global burden & public health

Global disease-burden analyses on modifiable lifestyle exposures — including high-sodium diet and smoking attributable to stomach cancer — with 1990–2021 findings and 2040 projections that inform population-level prevention and screening strategy.

Global burden of disease · Cancer epidemiology · Prevention · Population health

06

Biomedical instrumentation & IoT

Spectroscopy-based rapid detection, continuous physiological monitoring, and IoT-enabled biomedical instrumentation for acute illness and organ-injury contexts — bridging device engineering, clinical translation, and Greater Bay Area industrialisation.

Spectroscopy · Continuous monitoring · IoT devices · Point-of-care · Clinical translation

04 / Publications

Selected peer-reviewed work
and books.

Cheang, C. as first, co-first (*), or corresponding (§) author unless noted.

  1. Hu, Y. L., Wang, X. Y., Lu, K., Cheang, C., et al. (2026). Aggregation-induced emission of DNA fluorescence as a novel pan-marker of cell death, senescence and sepsis in vitro and in vivo. Theranostics. IF 13.3
  2. Lin, J., Kuok, K., Mio, W., Tan, C., Tou, P., & Cheang, C.§ (2026). Beyond single-modality screening: an EEG-IoT dual-stream framework for early detection of mild cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. IF 5.2
  3. Zhou, X., Han, X., Dong, S., Wang, M. H., Lin, E. Z., Ng, H., & Cheang, C.§ (2026). Global stomach cancer burden from high-sodium diet and smoking: 1990–2021 findings and 2040 projections. Frontiers in Oncology. IF 3.5
  4. Zhao, S., Cheang, C., Lin, J., Mio, W., Che, S., & Kuok, K. (2026). A multimodal, risk-stratified framework for AI-driven early risk prediction and personalised prevention in obesity. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 9, 1865219. IF 4.7
  5. Cheang, C., Law, S. K., Ren, J. R., Chan, W. T., Wang, C. C., & Dong, Z. Y. (2022). The relationship between serum uric acid and obesity: a decade retrospective study in Chinese patients with severe obesity. Frontiers in Public Health. IF 6.46
  6. Mio, W. I., Tan, C. Y., Tou, P. K., Cheang, P., & Cheang, C.§ (2025). Is chubby cute? Clinical perspectives on obesity prevention and metabolic health in Macau. Frontiers in Public Health. IF 4.2
  7. Dong, Z. Y., Stier, C., Cheang, C., Chong, T. H., Chen, W. H., Parmar, C. T., Chan, W. T., & Wang, C. C. (2024). The safety and efficacy of the three-port technique of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in the treatment of obesity. Journal of Macau University of Science and Technology.
  8. Clyde, D., Grant, C., Aguiar-Canales, J. A., et al. (including Cheang C. I. as PARTNER Study Collaborator) (2025). Global variations in practices after bariatric and metabolic surgery: the PARTNER study. Obesity Reviews. IF 8.9
  9. Cheang, C., Zhou, F., Xu, X., Dong, Z., & Wei, S. (2024). Impact of vitamin D deficiency on the immune system and management strategies for weight-reduction recovery in obese patients. Chinese Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. IF 4.42
  10. Wang, M. H., Lee, S. M. Y., Hou, G., … Cheang, C. et al. (2026). Explainable multimodal AI and neuro-symbolic clinical decision support system for chronic eye disease management: a digital health implementation study. Frontiers in Digital Health. IF 5.2
  11. Chan, W. T., & Cheang, C. (2024). Seizing pandemic lessons: a call to reinvent public health and healthcare policy planning in post-COVID-19 Hong Kong. Frontiers in Public Health. IF 4.2

05 / Editorial & Peer Review

Editorial roles and journals
I review for.

Serving 24 international titles as peer reviewer, and holding editorial roles across bariatric medicine, gastroenterology, health economics, digital health, and public health.

Editorial roles

  • Editor-in-Chief

    Asia-Pacific Journal of Gastroenterology and Metabolism (2026–)

  • Executive Editor

    Journal of Gastrointestinal and Obesity Metabolism, OAE Publishing (2026)

  • Associate Editor

    Frontiers in Medicine; Frontiers in Digital Health (2026)

  • Guest Editor · Special Issue

    Frontiers in Political Science — Politics of Technology (2026)

Reviewer for 24 international titles

  • Theranostics
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Oncology
  • Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Frontiers in Medicine
  • Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Value in Health Regional Issues
  • Obesity Surgery
  • Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
  • BMC Public Health
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • BMJ Open
  • PLOS ONE
  • Health Policy
  • Health Economics Review
  • International Journal of Health Policy and Management
  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • npj Digital Medicine
  • Diagnostics
  • Nutrients
  • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

06 / Press & Recognition

Recent coverage.

07 / Cooperation

Let's build something across
the clinic, the lab, and the market.

I welcome inquiries for research collaboration, clinical partnerships, investment and co-founding, publishing and editorial work, corporate advisory in obesity and metabolic health, and policy consultation across Macau, the Greater Bay Area, and internationally.

Email zhengjunxianalex@gmail.com