Michael is from the Faculty of Dentistry and has been at HKU for 27 years. He has been actively engaged in educational reform, pedagogy innovation, and research. He is the Lead of the Community of Practice for the Students as Partners initiative.

He has been involved in several Students as Partners projects in connection with near-peer skills learning (clinical photography, digital scanning, and communication) with students who created course manuals and videos. He also mentored students who performed a robust survey of student wellness in the faculty of Dentistry. These have been published in the European Journal of Dental Education.