Prof. Lam is Honorary Professor of Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is Life Member of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis (AOI) and Council Member of International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO), the President and Organizing Committee Chairman of World Ophthalmology Congress 2008 in Hong Kong (over 13,000 delegates from 102 countries), Council Member of the World Glaucoma Association (WGA) and of the Asia-Pacific Association of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (APACRS). He is the Secretary-General and Chief Executive Officer of both Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO), and the Asia-Pacific Vitreoretina Society (APVRS), Founding President of the Asia-Pacific Society of Eye Genetics, and the President of the College of Ophthalmologists of Hong Kong (2003-5). He is the Director of the Joint Shantou International Eye Center of the Shantou University/The Chinese University of Hong Kong JSIEC). 

Prof. Lam is a serious academician. He was once or is currently editorial board member of various academic journals: Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology (Associate Editor, Asia), British Journal of Ophthalmology, Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, Acta Ophthalmologica, Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology, Chinese Journal of Ocular Fundus Diseases, Video Journal of Ophthalmology, Asia Journal of Ophthalmology, Founding editor-in-chief of the Hong Kong Journal of Ophthalmology; and eye magazines including Ocular Surgery News Europe/Asia-Pacific Edition (Associate Medical Editor and Editorial Board Chairman), EyeNet Magazine, and Euro Times.

He has a passion to help eliminate cataract blindness in China. He found the Project Vision Charitable Foundation (www.projectvision.org.hk) in 2006 aiming to establish 100 charity eye centers in China by 2013 to perform 100,000 quality but low-cost cataract surgeries every year.