Allied Health

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Researchers

Physiotherapy

• Dr Stephen CHAN Wing-wai, Manager (Allied Health)
• Mr Kenneth POON Ming-chung, Senior Physiotherapist
• Ms Maria CHEUNG Mei-wun, Advanced Practice Physiotherapist
• Ms Becky TSANG Pik-kei, Advanced Practice Physiotherapist
• Ms Nadia HUI Wai-wai, Advanced Practice Physiotherapist
• Ms Joyce LAI Hiu-ying, Advanced Practice Physiotherapist
• Ms Jessica KWOK Cho-yiu, Advanced Practice Physiotherapist
• Ms Stephanie LAU Ho-ching, Resident Physiotherapist

Speech Therapy

• Ms Patty CHIANG, Speech Therapist
• Ms Cello CHOI, Speech Therapist
• Ms Yoyo YIU, Speech Therapist

Research Areas

Physiotherapy

• Rehabilitation
• Physical activities
• Cardiopulmonary training and exercise testing
• Gait and motion analysis
• Neurological and neuromuscular rehabilitation
• Oncological rehabilitation and survivor’s functioning
• Artificial intelligence, big data prediction and comparison projects

Speech Therapy

• Perceptual speech and instrumental assessment for cleft lip and palate patients
• Paediatric feeding and swallowing
• Communication in paediatrics across various medical conditions
• New technologies and modalities in speech therapy

Prosthetic & Orthotics

• Paediatric prosthetics
• Paediatric orthotics
• Scoliosis
• Pedobarography
• 3D printing

Selected Publications

Physiotherapy

• Cheung MW, Chan SHS, Tung AWL, Chan SWW, Poon MC. SMA with 2 SMN2 copies diagnosed by newborn screening post disease-modifying treatments in Hong Kong Chinese Children. 19th International Congress on Neuromuscular Diseases (ICNMD 2026)
• Tsang PK, Poon MC, Chan WW. Integrating Instrumented Gait Analysis and Computerized Dynamic Posturography to Address Gait Dysfunction in a Pediatric Limb Salvage Patient. The Hong Kong College of Orthopaedic Surgeons Scientific Meeting 2026
• Chan MYR, Hui WW, Lam J, Leung K K. Challenges of physiotherapy service on a patient with cystic fibrosis and severe pulmonary exacerbation and put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: A case report. Journal of Pediatric Critical Care. 2024;11(2):86-88. doi: 10.4103/jpcc.jpcc_6_24
• Chan MYR, Hui WW, Chan WW, Lun KS. Prehabilitation-Reconditioning of Teenage Heart Transplant Candidates Journal of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology. 2024;31(3):29-32. doi:10.55503/2790-6744.1534
• Chan MYR, Chan KL, Hui WW, Lam J, Lau HCS, Chan WW, Kwok CY, Poon MC, et al. Personalized exercise programs enhance physical capacity in teenagers with congenital heart disease. European Journal of Heart Failure © 2025 European Society of Cardiology. 2025;27(Suppl. S2):229-230
• Lai JHY, Chan NNC, Ho SPS, Wong IKK, Lao MLM, Chan HKF, Chan SWW, Chan SHS. Use of Gait Analysis and Wearable Metabolic System in Patient with SMA with Disease-modifying Treatment. [Abstracts of the 18th International Congress on Neuromuscular Diseases (ICNMD 2024).] Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases. 2024;11(2_suppl):S1-S187. doi:10.1177/22143602241290230
• POON MC, LEE YW, HO YB, CHAN WW. Collaboration of Multi-Disciplinary Team Effort to Achieve Out-of-bed Sitting in Radiology Department for Video Fluoroscopic Swallowing Study to Promote Oral Feeding Opportunity. Poster Presentation at: the Hong Kong Physiotherapy Association Conference 2024; October 26, 2024; Hong Kong SAR, China.

Speech Therapy

• Yiu OY, Chiang PI, Fong R. Comparison of Flow Rate between Bottle Teats Typically Used in Neonatal Unit and Commercially Available Teats in Hong Kong. Oral session presented at: the Joint Annual Research & Scientific Meeting; November 26, 2022; Hong Kong SAR, China. **
• Yiu OY, Siu KY, Chan CSS, Choi KY, Lo FW, Fong R. Pediatric Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing: Service Review with Clinical Audit on Documentation. Poster session presented at: the Joint Annual Research & Scientific Meeting; October 30, 2021; Hong Kong SAR, China. **
• Yiu OY, Piereira JV, Wong WHS, Chao SYN. The Relationship between Perceptual Ratings of Nasality and Nasalance and the Diagnostic Accuracy of Nasometry for Cleft Palate and Normal Cantonese-Speaking Children. Poster session presented at: the 15th International Congress on Cleft Lip/ Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies (CLEFT 2025); October 20, 2025; Kyoto, Japan.
• Tsui SY, Yiu OY, Tang MYP, Chan KWE, Lee KH, Chao SYN (2024, Jul). Retrospective Review of Primary Palatoplasty in Single Local Institution in Hong Kong. Poster session presented at: the 16th world congress of the International Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation; July 16, 2024; Tokyo, Japan
• Yiu OY, Chan CSS, Tsui SY. Implementation of telepractice in speech therapy to children with cleft palate during COVID-19 pandemic: Evaluation of service outcomes. Oral session presented at the: Joint Annual Research & Scientific Meeting; November 22; Hong Kong SAR, China. **
• Fong R, Tsai CF, Yiu OY. The Implementation of Telepractice in Speech Language Pathology in Hong Kong During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Telemed J E Health. 2021;27(1):30-38. doi:10.1089/tmj.2020.0223
• Yiu OY, Chan CS, Choi KY, Pereira VJ. Cantonese-Cleft Speech Assessment Tool (C-CSAT). Hong Kong: Institute of Human Communicative Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; 2019.
• Fong R, Tsai CF, Wong WHS, Yiu OY, Luk JKH (2019). Speech therapy in palliative care and comfort feeding: current practice and way ahead. Asian Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics. 2020;14(2):61-68. doi:10.12809/ajgg-2018-330-oa
• Yiu OY, Wong WHS, Liu APY, Cheuk DKL, Chiang AKS, Ha SY, & Chan GCF (2018). Communication and hearing complications in patients with childhood cancers. Journal of speech, language and hearing. 2019;22(3):149-159. doi:/0.1080/2050571X.2018.1541296

**: Awarded oral presentation 1st prize in nursing / allied health category.

Prosthetic & Orthotics

• Cheung JPY, Yiu KKL, Vidyadhara S, Chan PPY, Cheung PWH, Mak KC. Predictability of Supine Radiographs for Determining In-Brace Correction for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2018;43(14):971-976. doi:10.1097/BRS.0000000000002503
• Lam SY, Kwong YY, Wang Y, Lau CP. Quasi-experimental study to compare the intermediate clinical outcomes between circumferential and asymmetrical helmet design in positional plagiocephaly [Abstract]. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Congress of the Hong Kong Orthopaedic association (HKOA), 113.