Prof. Patricia Tai graduated with a gold medal from Hong Kong University (ranked 35th among the world's top 100 universities) after training under Prof. John Ho, a world leader in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Upon immigrating to Canada, she received fellowship training under Prof. David McDonald (recognized for the landmark McDonald brain tumor criteria) and Mr. Jake Van Dyk (a world-renowned medical physicist). She is an international expert in skin cancer and has been an invited author of five UpToDate chapters since 2000. She was promoted to full professor in 2009 and became an Honorary Professor at Hong Kong University in 2016. Currently, she has 149 full publications, 121 conference abstracts, and 168 oral/poster presentations and lectures.