Philip Chiu is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Professor of Robotic Surgery, Director of Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center, Director of Endoscopy Center, Institute of Digestive Disease of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also serves as Director of Endoscopy of Prince of Wales Hospital and the New Territories East Cluster.

Prof. Chiu was the first to perform endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for treatment of early GI cancers in Hong Kong in 2004. In 2010, he performed the first Per-oral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) in Hong Kong. He pioneered the world's first robotic gastric ESD in 2011, followed by the world's first robotic colorectal ESD in 2020.

He has published more than 400 peer reviewed articles with an H index of 74. He was awarded the Asia Pacific Digestive Week JGHF Emerging Leader Lectureship and named a Global Outstanding Chinese Youth in 2016. He received two Gold Medals with Congratulations of Jury at the International Exhibitions of Inventions of Geneva (2019, 2023) and the Spirit of Hong Kong Award on Innovation in 2020. In 2023, he was bestowed Honorary Membership of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery and the Karl-Storz-Harold Hopkins Golden Telescope Award at the Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics by Imperial College London.