Chien W T

Prof. CHIEN is currently Professor and Director (w.e.f. Aug 2020) of the Nethersole School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He had served as Vice-Director of Research at The Nethersole School of Nursing, CUHK (2019-20), and Professor in School of Nursing (2011-18) and Associate Dean (2017-18) in Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. As an advanced practice nurse and active researcher, Prof. CHIEN has committed in improving mental health in her native Hong Kong SAR, China by establishing psycho-education and mutual support group programs to community-resided people with mental health problems and their family members through psychosocial interventions, research, advocacy, and community mental health promotion in the past 25 years. Prof. CHIEN have been an active academia and researcher and led the Mental Health Research Groups in faculties of health sciences and nursing for the past 30 years and have recently provided consultancy and staff training in non-government mental health care agencies in Hong Kong, mainland China and South East Asia. He has contributed to the development of education curriculum, licensure and practice guidelines of psychiatric/mental health nursing and reviews of research proposals and publications in the international and national Nursing Boards or funding bodies, and served as editors and editorial board members of international refereed nursing and healthcare journals. He has obtained over 40 health research grants with an amount of about HKD 40,000,000 (>US$4,500,000) and published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed international nursing, psychiatric or health care journals, and substantial numbers of conference papers and book chapters.