Yvonne Chun

Dr, PhD (2019), Specialist registrar doctor in stroke and medicine for the elderly

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I am an early-career clinical researcher and Chief Investigator of the TASK-I RCT (Treating Anxiety after StroKe). I work with a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and academics in collaboration with data scientists and informatics specialists at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. I was awarded the Chief Scientist Office of Scotland Clinical Academic Fellowship (PhD completed 2019), during which I led a programme of research on anxiety subtyping after stroke, leading to the development and pilot testing of a telemedicine guided self-help intervention for anxiety after stroke (TASK-CBT) in a randomised controlled trial (TASK-RCT).
 
I have ongoing interests in applying evidence-based innovative digital technology to improve stroke care, empower stroke patients, and expedite the generation of robust evidence through efficient and high-quality clinical trials.  
 
My ongoing work includes developing an automated conversational agent for stroke patients, using actigraphy as clinical outcome measure in stroke trials, efficient digitised clinical trial design e.g. TASK-II RCT, and designing digital therapeutics for stroke patients e.g. TASK-CBT, self-management app. 

I was awarded a small grant from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Lindsay Bequest & Reid Trust Research Grant to complete pilot study of using wrist-worn actigraphy sensors to collect objective stroke outcomes in a randomised controlled trial. http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/college/lindsay-bequest-and-reid-trust.  

The key first-author publications from my PhD programme of research are as follows:

Telemedicine Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety After Stroke: Proof-of-Concept Randomized Controlled Trial. Stroke. 2020 Aug;51(8):2297-2306. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.029042. Epub 2020 Jun 24.

Anxiety after stroke: the importance of subtyping (2018).  Stroke. 2018 Mar;49(3):556-564. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.020078. Epub 2018 Feb 6.

 Treating anxiety after stroke (TASK): the feasibility phase of a novel web-enabled randomized controlled trial. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2018 Aug 14;4:139. doi: 10.1186/s40814-018-0329-x. eCollection 2018

A systematic review of anxiety interventions in stroke and acquired brain injury: efficacy and trial design. J Psychosom Res. 2018 Jan; 104:65-75. Doi: 10.1016/j/jpsychores.2017.11.010.  Epub2017 Nov 16

 

Education/Academic qualification

Clinical Brain Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Anxiety after Stroke: Intervention Design and a Randomised Controlled Trial, University of Edinburgh

1 Sept 201531 Aug 2018

Award Date: 6 Jul 2019

Medicine, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, Imperial College London

Award Date: 27 Jul 2007

External positions

Honorary Specialist Registrar, NHS Lothian

Sept 201431 Aug 2018

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