Professor CHIEN Wai Tong - Directors Of Schools - People - About Us

CUHK Employment

• Director and Professor, The Nethersole School of Nursing
• Co-Director, Cochrane Hong Kong, The Nethersole School of Nursing
• Director, Asia-Pacific Genomic and Genetic Nursing Centre, The Nethersole School of Nursing

Expertise

• Mental health and psychiatric nursing care
• Community- and family-based psychosocial intervention for psychosis

Education & Qualifications

BN (Hons.) (CUHK), MPhil (Nursing) (CUHK), PGDip (Nurs Edu) (PolyU), PhD (KCL), RMN, FHKAN, FAAN

Research Interests

• Community care and family intervention for people with psychosis
• Development and testing of psychosocial intervention for severe mental illness

Additional Information

Award & Honour

• Excellent Research Award, Health and Medical Research Fund, Food and Health Bureau, The Government of the HKSAR, 2019
• Visiting Professor, La Trobe University, Australia; National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taiwan; Schools of Nursing, Guangzhou Medical University and Zhejiang University City College, China
• Fellowship, American Academy of Nursing, USA, 2018
• Outstanding Nursing Alumni Award, School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2017
• Distinguished Alumni Award, The Nethersole School of Nursing 25th Anniversary Outstanding Alumni Awards, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016
• Postgraduate Research Sponsorship, Pi Iota Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, USA, 2014
• Grandfather Fellowship, Hong Kong College of Education and Research in Nursing, The Hong Kong Academy of Nursing, 2012
• Research Scholarship Award 2008-09 (Community Leader), Pi Iota Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, USA, 2009

Professional Service

• Associate Editor for Trials, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and Frontiers in Public Health; and editorial board member for several international nursing and psychiatry journals
• Member, Assessment Panel of the Public Policy Research (PPR) Funding Scheme & Strategic Public Policy Research (SPPR) Funding Scheme, Chief Executive’s Policy Unit, The Government of HKSAR
• Member, Biology and Medicine Panel (Joint research Schemes), the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, University Grants Committee, The Government of HKSAR
• Member, Research Committee, Nethersole Institute of Continuing Holistic Health Education (NICHE)
• Expert Advisor, Office of the Ombudsman, Hong Kong
• External examiner, Professional Diploma of Nursing programmes, Schools of General Nursing, Hospital Authority Hong Kong
• External Member, Hospital Authority Basic Nursing Education Quality Assurance Committee (HA BNE QAC)

Academic Engagement in CUHK

• Member, Senate Committee on Sub-degree, Professional and Continuing Education Programmes (SPCEP)
• Member, Committee on Re-approval of Sub-degree, Professional and Continuing Education Programmes (as the member representing the Senate Committee on Sub-degree, Professional and Continuing Education Programmes, 2020 – 2021)
• Director, Asia-Pacific Genomic and Genetic Nursing Centre, The Nethersole School of Nursing
• Chairperson, Steering Committee, The Croucher Laboratory for Human Genomics, The Nethersole School of Nursing
• Co-Director, Cochrane Hong Kong (an affiliate of Cochrane), The Nethersole School of Nursing
• Member, Faculty Board, Faculty of Medicine
• School representative for the East Asian Forum of Nursing Scholars (EAFONS)