Linda currently serves as Clinical Assistant Professor, jointly appointed under the Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care and the Bau Institute of Medical and Health Sciences Education. She received both her Bachelor of Medical Sciences and medical degrees from the University of Nottingham, UK. She then completed her Family Medicine training at In His Image Family Medicine Residency Program in the USA and was certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine. She earned a Master’s in Medical Education from the University of Dundee (UK) in 2017, was accepted for Membership of the Academy of Medical Educators (UK) in 2019, became a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians in 2020, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy / Advance HE in 2022. She also completed the Stanford University School of Medicine’s Physician Well-being Director Course in 2023.
Concurrent with her family medicine practice, she was involved in teaching, medical education consulting, and disaster and humanitarian medical relief trips to Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Macau, Myanmar, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines. Her research interests lie in medical education, and centre on the wellbeing of healthcare learners and professionals. Reflecting this, internationally she was humbled to be awarded the Highly Commended MedEdPublish Article 2018 – 2019 at the 2019 Association for Medical Education in Europe Conference, the 2021 Gold Award for Hybrid Learning (Team award) at the Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Conference, and the 2023 Teaching and Learning Strategy of the Year (Team award) at the Times Higher Education Awards, Asia. Locally, she was also grateful to receive The Hong Kong College of Family Physicians’ Best Research Award for 2023 and The University of Hong Kong’s Early Career Teaching Award plus Teaching Innovation Award (Team Award) in 2024.