
Two-time Finalist (Nuturing Values and Ethics Award), QS Reimagine Eduation Awards 2023 & 2024
"Most Innovative Teacher of the Year", Times Higher Education (THE) Awards Asia 2025
Ki Sum Samson is an interdisciplinary medical
humanities educator with a background in medical education, social gerontology,
and thanatology. He first joined Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit (MEHU) of HKUMed
in 2014 as a Teaching Assistant to the late Professor L.C. Chan, Founding Co-Director
of the Unit. He is currently one of the two educators in Hong Kong accredited
as Fellow (FAcadMEd) at the Academy of Medical Educators in the U.K.
Of his 11 years of service in MEHU, one of Samson’s
highlights was having adapted the method of photo-elicitation for promoting
medial students’ awareness of age-related biases during COVID pandemic (2020-2013)
in response to the spread of ageism in societies. For this work, he became a recipient of “Young
Scholar Merit Award” at NUS’s Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference (APMEC)
in 2022.
Samson’s approaches to pedagogical innovation
have been globally acclaimed. In 2023, he became the first HKU teacher to be
presented a Gold Award (Pedagogical Innovation) at The Chinese University of
Hong Kong’s Teaching and Learning Innovation Expo. From 2023 to 2024, he was a
two-time Finalist in the “Nurturing Values and Ethics” category at QS Reimagine Education
Awards. In 2025, Samson was rated Asia’s
Top 1 "Most Innovative Teacher of the Year" in 2025 by Times
Higher Education (THE).