Joyce Mak is currently Consultant at Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at Prince of Wales Hospital. She is also the honorary clinical associate professor at Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is passionate about inflammatory bowel disease and gut microbiota. She has published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals on inflammatory bowel disease and gut microbiota, including Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology and 3 book chapters on inflammatory bowel disease. She is currently the President of the Hong Kong IBD Society and serves as an Associate Editor for Frontline Gastroenterology, an editorial member of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics (APT). She is also a board member of the Asian Organisation of Crohn’s and Colitis (AOCC).