Dental Surgeon BDS(Syd), MDS (Syd), FRACDS Dr Chan is a graduate of the University of Sydney and has published in international and Australian journals and has lectured extensively on restorative and implant dentistry in Australia and internationally. For many years he was a fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Dental Surgery), College of Dental Surgeons of Hong Kong (Prosthodontics), Pierre Fauchard Academy and the International College of Dentists. He was awarded the Pierre Fauchard Award 2010 for Excellence in the Science and Medicine of Dentistry by the American Biographical Institute. He is a Professor in Oral Rehabilitation, School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, and is on the faculty for Doctor of Clinical Dentistry (Prosthodontics). He is an Honorary Associate Professor (Oral Rehabilitation) at the University of Hong Kong. Richard was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to dentistry in 2019