Professor Jean Woo graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1974. She joined the Department of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985 as Lecturer and became Head of the Department in 1993 until 1999. She established the Centre for Nutritional Studies in 1997 using a self-financing model to carry out service, education and research; and the Centre for Gerontology and Geriatrics in 1998 (renamed as the S.H Ho Centre for Gerontology and Geriatrics in 2006), offering self-financed courses in Gerontology and Geriatrics, as well as End of Life Care. Currently she is the Co-Director of CUHK Institute of Health Equity, Director of the CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing, Henry G Leong Research Professor of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine & Therapeutics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Consultant of Prince of Wales Hospital and Shatin Hospital.