Outreach

• Organizer (with Mind HK), Inaugural Public Lecture on Communication in Healthcare: Sue Baker, Global Director of Time to Change, UK, “Ending the Stigma Around Mental Health Worldwide”, Hong Kong, 13 November 2018.

• Zayts, O. (2012). Invited colloquium "Genetic Consultations / Counselling in South Asia". 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Human Genetics, Kuala Lumpur. (Organizer and speaker, other invited speakers: Prof. Srikant Sarangi and heads of clinical genetic services & lead geneticists in South Asia), 5-8 December 2012.

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• “Communication in Genetic Counseling: Telephone Mode of Communication”. Workshop for genetic and genetic counseling professionals, Clinical Genetic Services, Department of Health of the Government of the Hong Kong SAR. 20 August 2012.

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• “Discourse Analysis of Healthcare Communication”. Workshop for genetic and genetic counseling professionals. Clinical Genetic Services, Department of Health of the Government of the Hong Kong SAR. 23 December 2011.

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• “Communicating with Patients in Genetic Counseling Setting in Hong Kong”. International workshop, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 24-25 July 2011. (Invited speakers: Prof. Srikant Sarangi, Prof. Angus Clarke & Prof. Alison Pilnick).

• Zayts, O. (2010). Invited colloquium “Advice giving in genetic counseling”.  9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Human Genetics , Hong Kong. (Organizer & 1 out of 5 invited speakers; other invited speakers: Prof. Srikant Sarangi, Prof. Angus Clarke, Prof. Claire Penn & Dr. Tina Wessels), 30 November 2010.

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• The invited colloquium that I organized grew into a pre-conference workshop that has since become a regular part of the programme at the bi-annual Asia Pacific Conference on Human Genetics

• Series of regular small-scale workshops for genetic and genetic counselling professionals involved in the provision of genetic counseling services

• Collaboration with 2 direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies in Hong Kong on the project on marketization and commodification of genetic testing. 2015 –2019

• 17 years of collaboration with public hospitals (Queen Mary & Tsan Yuk) & Clinical Genetic Services, Department of Health, the Government of Hong Kong SAR spinning 3 RGC GRF grants, numerous publications, conference papers, workshops, colloquia and panels at conferences, and a major international conference.