Prof. Karen CHUA
Module Co-Head and Principal Investigator of Connected Rehabilitation Technology and Assistive Devices
Prof Chua Sui Geok Karen, is currently a Senior Consultant rehabilitation physician practicing at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s Rehabilitation Centre, as well as at the ambulatory facility at TTSH-CART (Centre for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics) in Singapore. She is also a certified medical acupuncturist at the TTSH CIM (Complementary Integrative Medicine Centre). She is an appointed Adjunct Associate Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and senior clinical tutor at National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine; and a visiting rehabilitation consultant at St Luke’s Hospital since 2006 and Ng Teng Fong Hospital since 2015.
She obtained her medical degree in 1988 from the National University of Singapore and post-graduate fellowship in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, specialising in neurorehabilitation and brain injury rehabilitation in 1997 from the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA.
Dr Chua currently holds research grant awards and collaborations with various academic institutions (NMRC, ASTAR, NTU) and industry partners for translational and integrative research into robotics for post-stroke arm and hand rehabilitation, variable automated sensing treadmills, Brain Computer Interface devices and mobile healthcare apps. She has also published and reviewed in local and international journals for neurorehabilitation, neurotechnology, stroke and brain injury rehabilitation. Together with her inter-disciplinary rehabilitation team, they have also written three educational books on brain injury rehabilitation for patients and caregivers.