Rehabilitation Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Director I IREx
Institute of Rehabilitation Excellence
Vice-Chair
l Research & Innovation, Rehabilitation Academic Clinical Programme
Co- Director l RRIS
Rehabilitation Research Institute of Singapore
Director I IREx
Institute of Rehabilitation Excellence
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A/Prof Chua Sui Geok Karen (MBBS, FCRPE, MCRP(UK) FAMS), is currently a Senior Consultant rehabilitation physician at Tan Tock Seng Hospital Rehabilitation Centre and Clinic for Advanced Rehabilitation Therapeutics (CART), Singapore.
In 1997, she was awarded the Ministry of Health Health Manpower Development Programme (MOH HMDP) award for 12 months of fellowship training in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Institute of Rehabilitation and Research, Houston, USA.
She is the current Director of the Institute of Rehabilitation Excellence (IREx), rehabilitation and innovation vice chair of Rehabilitation health academic health programme (reconstruction and recovery) and co-director of the Rehabilitation Research Institute, Singapore (RRIS) Her research interests include brain injury rehabilitation, neurorehabilitation, rehabilitation robotics, telerehabilitation and rehabilitative brain computer interfaces. She is also a certified medical acupuncturist with the MOH TCM practitioners board. She has co-authored ~90 publications, including 2 review articles, 3 books and jointly filed 5 patents.
Publications
1. Rehabilitation course and functional outcome of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis related to SARS-CoV-2 infection.
2. 3D-printed external cranial protection following decompressive craniectomy after brain injury: A pilot feasibility cohort study.
3. An Exploratory Clinical Study on an Automated, Speed-Sensing Treadmill Prototype With Partial Body Weight Support for Hemiparetic Gait Rehabilitation in Subacute and Chronic Stroke Patients.
4. Functional and ambulatory benefits of robotic-assisted gait training during early subacute inpatient rehabilitation following severe stroke
5. Rehabilitation outcome after acute subarachnoid haemorrhage: the role of early functional predictors and complications
6. Work with me, not for me: Relationship between robotic assistance and performance in subacute and chronic stroke patients.
7. An Asian-centric human movement database capturing activities of daily living.
8. Neurorehabilitation From a Distance: Can Intelligent Technology Support Decentralized Access to Quality Therapy?
9. Telerehabilitation using a 2-D planar arm rehabilitation robot for hemiparetic stroke: A feasibility study of clinic-to-home exergaming therapy
10. Covert Subclinical Neurocognitive Sequelae During the Rehabilitation Course of Severe Coronavirus Disease 2019
11. The Impact of Stroke Subtype on Recovery and Functional Outcome after Inpatient Rehabilitation: A Retrospective Analysis of Factors.
12. Long-Term Outcomes of Patients with Primary Brain Tumors after Acute Rehabilitation: A Retrospective Analyses of Factors.
13. Soft, Lightweight Wearable Robots to Support the Upper Limb in Activities of Daily Living: A Feasibility Study on Chronic Stroke Patients.
14. Mobile Robotic Balance Assistant (MRBA): a gait assistive and fall intervention robot for daily living
15. Upper limb position matching after stroke: evidence for bilateral asymmetry in precision but not in accuracy
16. Versatile clinical movement analysis using statistical parametric mapping in MovementRx.
17. Self-Administered Botulinum Injection Causing Rare Masquerade of Systemic Botulism.
18. Unraveling stroke gait deviations with movement analytics, more than meets the eye: a case control study.
19. Transferring a deep learning model from healthy subjects to stroke patients in a motor imagery brain-computer interface.
20. Neural Interface-Based Motor Neuroprosthesis in Poststroke Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis.
