Dr. Michele Yuen is a specialist in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. She is currently in private practice and is an honorary consultant at Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital and Hong Kong Adventist Hospital. She is also an honorary associate consultant at Queen Mary Hospital and clinical assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Prior to studying medicine, Dr. Yuen obtained a degree in Bachelors of Science in Dietetics from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She then received her medical degree from the University of Hong Kong and specialized as an endocrinologist at Queen Mary Hospital. She further sub-specialized in Obesity Medicine at the Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition Institute of the Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School. She is a member of the Royal College of Physician (United Kingdom) and a fellow of the Hong Kong College of Physician, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine and the Royal College of Physician (Edinburgh).
Dr. Yuen is one of the pioneers of obesity medicine in Hong Kong. She developed the first obesity clinic and joint metabolic and bariatric surgery clinic in Hong Kong in 2016 and founded the Hong Kong Obesity Society to support the development of Obesity Medicine in Hong Kong.