The Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health (D²4H) and the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) jointly organised the seminar titled “Improving Detection of Inherited Raised Cholesterol: Development and Implementation of the Familial Hypercholesterolemia Case Ascertainment Tool (FAMCAT)” on February 21, 2025 (Friday).

Dr Ralph Kwame Akyea, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Nottingham, and Fellow of the Health Data Research UK Big Data for Complex Disease Driver Programme, shared with the participants an overview of the development, validation, and implementation of FAMCAT, a registered medical device available in the primary care (GP) clinical system in the United Kingdom. Ms Irene Qiuyan Yu, Research Associate at the D²4H and PhD Candidate at the HKU Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, also gave a talk on “Prescribing Patterns and Lipid Control Outcomes of New Lipid-Lowering Drugs in the Greater Bay Area: A Retrospective Analysis”.

The seminar was moderated by Professor Joseph Blais, Assistant Professor of the HKU Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy.