Doctor Karen Liu
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY,
Occupational Therapy (SoSH)
Personal
Qualifications
- PhD Hong Kong Polytechnic
- MPh Hong Kong Polytechnic
- DipOccThe Hong Kong Polytechnic
- BSc University of London
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Occupational Therapy (SoSH)
Contact
| Email: | Karen.Liu@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 3432 |
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| Location: | 24.4.20 Campbelltown |
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Biography
Karen Liu is an occupational therapist who has practiced as a clinician in both Hong Kong and USA for over 10 years. She received the PhD in 2002 in rehabilitation Sciences specializing in neurological rehabilitation. Karen had been an academia since 2001 at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University until February 2012 when she joined the UWS. The subjects that she taught while she worked in Hong Kong included neurological rehabilitation, musculo-skeletal rehabilitation, rehabilitation for people with developmental disabilities. She is now teaching units involving neurolgical rehabilitation.
Karen's current focus of research includes use of mental imagery and self-regulation in rehabilitation, functional regain in neurological rehabilitation, memory strategies employed to enhance recall for elderly and people with mild cognitive impairments, attention and risk taking behaviour of drivers. She also conducts research in using various strategies to enhance learning for children with developmental disabilities such as strategies for learning Chinese words and sensory integration. For the above areas of researches, besides investigating the clinical efficacy of interventions, Karen also studies the behaviour and neural mechanism of individuals with the purpose of understanding how and why the intervention works.
This information has been contributed by Doctor Liu.
Teaching
Previous Teaching Areas
- 400171 Occupation and Neurology, 2012
- 400183 Upper Limb Rehabilitation Following Stroke, 2012
Publications
Chapters in Books
- Liu, K., Kuo, C. and Lim, M. (2011), 'Memory deficits in persons with mild cognitive impairment: Implication for rehabilitation strategies (English translation)', Haven't forgotten yourself - Chinese and western medical treatment methods for mild cognitive impairment and DIY home programs (English translation), Economic Times Press 9789626786581.
- Liu, K. and Chan, C. (2009), 'Metacognitive mental imagery strategies for training of daily living skills for people with brain damage: The self-regulation and mental imagery program', International Handbook of Occupational Therapy Interventions, Springer 978-0-387-75423-9.
Journal Articles
- Kuo, M., Liu, K. and Chan, C. (2012), 'Factors involved in memory encoding and their implications for the memory performance of older adults and people with mild cognitive impairment.', World Journal of Neuroscience, 10.
- Kuo, M., Liu, K., Liu, K., Ting, K. and Chan, C. (2012), 'The differential roles of perceptual and semantic subsequent memory effects using an orthographic paradigm', Brain Research, 10.
- Lim, M., Liu, K., Liu, K., Cheung, G., Kuo, M., Li, R. and Tong, C. (2012), 'Effectiveness of a multifaceted cognitive training program for people with mild cognitive impairment: A one-group pre- and post-test design', Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy, 6.
- Li, R., Liu, K. and Liu, K. (2012), 'The use of errorless learning strategies for patients with Alzheimer's Disease: A literature review', International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 9.
- Zhang, X., Zhou, Y. and Liu, K. (2012), 'Inter-rater reliability and receiver operating characteristic of Chinese Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease: Neuropsychological Assessment Battery', Chinese Journal of Rehabilitation Theory and Practice, 3.
- Lim, M., Liu, K., Cheung, G., Kuo, M., Li, R. and Tong, C. (2012), 'Effectiveness of a multifaceted cognitive training programme for people with mild cognitive impairment : a one-group pre- and posttest design', Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy, 6.
- Kuo, M., Liu, K. and Chan, C. (2012), 'Factors involved in memory encoding and their implications for the memory performance of older adults and people with mild cognitive impairment', World Journal of Neuroscience, 10.
- Kuo, M., Liu, K., Ting, K. and Chan, C. (2012), 'Differentiation of perceptual and semantic subsequent memory effects using an orthographic paradigm', Brain Research, 10.
- Li, R. and Liu, K. (2012), 'The use of errorless learning strategies for patients with Alzheimer's disease : a literature review', International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 7.
- Liu, K. (2012), 'Fighting against Parskinson's: The power of cueing', Hong Kong Parkinson's Disease Foundation Newsletter, .
- Welage, N. and Liu, K. (2011), 'Wheelchair accessibility of public buildings: a review of the literature.', Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 9.
- Leung, D. and Liu, K. (2011), 'Review of Self-Awareness and its Clinical Application in Stroke Rehabilitation.', International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 9.
- Liu, K., Chu, M., Chu, L., Kuo, M., Tang, K., Chau, A., Ho, I., Kwok, M., Chan, W., Choi, R. and Lam, N. (2011), 'Effects of age, education and gender in the Consortium to Establish a Registry for the Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD)-Neuropsychological Assessment Battery for Cantonese-speaking Chinese Elders', International Psychogeriatrics, 7.
- Liu, K. and Fong, A. (2010), 'Overview of Occupational Therapy Practice with Children in Hong Kong', Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, & Early Intervention, 8.
- Kuo, M., Liu, K. and Chan, C. (2010), 'Memory encoding in healthy older adults using neutral, perceptual, and semantic tasks', International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2.
- Liu, K., Chan, C., Wong, R., Kwan, I., Yau, C., Li, L. and Lee, T. (2009), 'A randomized controlled trial of mental imagery augment generalization of learning in acute poststroke patients.', Stroke, 4.
- Liu, K. (2009), 'Use of mental imagery to improve task generalisation after a stroke', Hong Kong Medical Journal, 5.
- Leung, C. and Liu, K. (2009), 'The effect of sound-based intervention on adults with severe graded intellectual disabilities', Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy, .
- Kuo, M., Liu, K., Wong, Y., Yuen, M., Ting, K. and Chan, C. (2009), 'Cortical reorganization in cerebral palsy with constraint-induced movement therapy: A study of two cases', Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy, .
- Liu, K. and Ng, B. (2008), 'Usefulness of the Model of Human Occupation in the Hong Kong Chinese Context.', Occupational Therapy in Health Care, 12.
- Welage, N. and Liu, K. (2008), 'Review of a home and community integration programme for people with spinal cord injuries in Hong Kong and its relevance to Sri Lanka.', Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy, 6.
Conference Papers
- Cheng, C., Choi, J. and Liu, K. (2012), 'Effectiveness of structured home-based somatosensory training programme for improving attention on preschool children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder', International Occupational Therapy conference, Hong Kong.
- Kuo, C., Liu, K. and Chan, C. (2012), 'Perceptual and semantic task-related subsequent memory effects in persons with mild cognitive impairment: An ERP study.', International Occupational Therapy conference, Hong Kong.
- Kuo, M., Liu, K., Gao, E. and Chan, C. (2012), 'Perceptual encoding in persons with mild cognitive impairment: An ERP study', The 18th Annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Beijing, China.
- Kuo, M., Liu, K., Chan, C., Chu, M. and Chu, L. (2011), 'Neural correlates of perceptual and semantic encoding in mild cognitive impairment', The Croucher Foundation Alzheimer's Disease Conference 2011: From public health, basic and clinical sciences to therapeutic insights, Hong Kong.
- Liu, K., Kuo, M., Ting, K. and Chan, C. (2011), 'Memory encoding in healthy older adults using perceptual and semantic tasks.', The 3rd World Congress of Asian Psychiatry (WCAP 2011), Melbourne, Australia.
- Welage, N. and Liu, K. (2011), 'Descriptive survey on current wheelchair acccessbility of public buildings in Colombo, Sri Lanka', The 10th Asian Spinal Cord network (ASCoN) conference 2011, Sri Lanka.
- Cheng, C., Choi, J. and Liu, K. (2011), 'Effectiveness of structured home-based somatosensory training programme for improving attention on preschool children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder', The Hong Kong Society of Child Neurology and Developmental Paediatrics. Annual Scientific Meeting 2011 on Paediatric Neuro-radiology, Hong Kong.
- Li-Tsang, C., Liu, K., Fong, K., Siu, A., Wong, R. and Tang, K. (2010), 'Assessment of clinical competence of students from health care disciplines', The 7th 3+3+4 Symposium on Standards Based Assessment and honours classification, Hong Kong.
- Liu, K., Wong, Y., Yuen, M., Leung, T., Sum, C., Mok, V., Lum, C., Kuo, M. and Chan, C. (2010), 'The role of imagery in constraint-induced movement therapy', Second Asia-Oceanian conference of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Taiwan.
- Liu, K. (2010), 'Use of Meta-cognitive Strategies to Promote Functional Regain for People with Stroke', BIT's 1st Annual World Congress of NeuroTalk 2010, Singapore.
- Liu, K., Kuo, M., Tang, K. and Chan, C. (2010), 'Effects of perceptual and semantic encoding on retrieval processes using Chinese stimuli.', 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Melbourne.
- Kuo, M., Liu, K. and chan, C. (2010), 'Differential effects of memory encoding in older people: Differentiation between perceptual and semantic processing', The 7th Pan-Pacific Conference on Rehabilitation and 2010 Graduate Student Conference on Rehabilitation, Hong Kong.
- Liu, K., Kuo, M., Tang, K. and Chan, C. (2009), 'Differential effects of memory strategies on efficacy of recall and neural mechanisms: Perceptual versus semantic method', The 15th Meeting of the organization for Human Brain Mapping, San Francisco USA.
- Liu, K., Kuo, M. and Chan, C. (2009), 'Memory rehabilitation: Insights from event-related potentials studies using subsequent memory paradigm.', The Sixth International Congress on Vascular Dementia, Barcelona, Spain.
- Li-Tsang, C., Liu, K., Fong, K., Siu, A., Wong, R. and Tang, K. (2009), 'Application of e-case studies to enhance outcome based education', The 6th 3+3+4 Symposium on Enhancing and assessing students' learning outcomes for the new 4-year curriculum, Hong Kong.
- Liu, K., Chan, C., Li, L. and Lee, T. (2008), 'Application of mental imagery to regain list daily function', The 6th Chinese Psychologist Conference, Hong Kong.
Other Publications
- 2012, 'Fighting against Parkinson's: The power of cueing (in Chinese)', Published Work
Research
Current research projects
Project title: Alert responding in reflecting the attention functioning of drivers
Project fund: 2012 UWS SSH Research Seed Grants
Project title: Neural Mechanisms of a Mental Imagery Program in Maximising the Movement Preparation and the Execution of Daily Tasks for People with Parkinson's Disease
Project fund: Research Grant Council fund, HKSAR
Project title: Neural Mechanisms of a Mental Imagery Program in Maximising the Movement Preparation and the Execution of Daily Tasks for People with Parkinson's Disease
Project fund: Research Grant Council fund, HKSAR
Project title: Neurophysiological Markers of Alert Responding in Reflecting the Sustained Attention Functioning of Accident-involved versus Accident-free Motorcycle Riders
Project fund: Internal Competitive Research Grant, HKSAR
Project title: A Comparison of Impulsivity and Risk-taking Decision Making between Accident-involved and Accident-free Professional Drivers: An Event-related Potential Investigation
Project fund: Central Research Grant, HKPolyU
Project title: Clinical efficacy of a community occupational therapy program on functional competence of persons with dementia and skill enhancement of caregivers: a randomized controlled trial
Project fund: Health and Health Service Research Fund, HKSAR
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