Prof. Philip Kam-Tao Li is the Senior Consultant Physician of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong and also the Honorary Professor of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the Director of CUHK Carol and Richard Yu Peritoneal Dialysis Research Centre.

Prof. Li is the President of the International Association of Chinese Nephrologists (IACN). He is also the President-Designate of Hong Kong Academy of Medicine. He is the Immediate Past President of Hong Kong College of Physicians (2016-2022), the President of Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology (2016-9) and President of International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (2014-6). He had served as Chairman of Central Renal Committee of Hospital Authority, Chairman of Hong Kong Society of Nephrology, President of Hong Kong Transplantation Society, Co-Chair of the World Kidney Day (WKD) Steering Committee and the Executive Committee & Council Member, International Society of Nephrology. Prof Li served on the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week Program Committee for 2019-2020.

Prof. Li has been Visiting Professor to Harvard Medical School, Brown University and University of Virginia, USA, Nanjing University, Fudan University and Peking University, Ningxia Medical University, China, Nagoya University, Japan and Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

He has published over 670 original and review articles in peer-reviewed journals, 5 books and 23 book chapters. His Web of Science H index is 75. He has given over 280 lectures to international congresses, meetings and academic institutions.

Professor Li has won several international awards including the 2012 International Distinguished Medal of the National Kidney Foundation, USA, the 2020 Priscilla Kincaid Smith Award of Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology, the 2022 Oreopoulos Award of International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis and the 2023 Belding H Scribner Award of American Society of Nephrology. In 2024, University of Hong Kong conferred Doctor of Science (DSc) to Professor Li.