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Lo, Hung-Tat
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Ted Lo was born in Hong Kong and graduated from the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. He later relocated to Canada and has been active as a community psychiatrist in Toronto. Lo was a staff psychiatrist at North York General Hospital.
Lo has held teaching appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and is a visiting faculty member at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, helping the development of services in various parts of the country.
He was one of the three founding members of the Hong Fook Mental Health Association, which strives to provide culturally sensitive services in five Asian languages and address the stigma of mental illness in the Asian community. He founded a charitable organization, FACT (Friends of Alternative & Complementary Therapies), to promote education for the public and mainstream healthcare professionals. Under the China-Canada Medical Education project, Lo produced a TV series, Prescription for Health, which has been broadcast across many channels in China.
For his contributions to the psychiatry field in Canada, he was made a member of the Mental Health Commission of Canada and was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Award.
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Created by Alston So, March 2026.