Yvonne Chun

Dr, PhD (2019), Consultant in Stroke Medicine and Medicine for the Elderly, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer

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Yvonne Chun PhD is a Consultant Physician in Stroke Medicine and Medicine for the Elderly in NHS Lothian, an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and a Chief Scientist Office/NHS Scotland Innovation Fellow (2022-2024).

She was a Chief Scientist Office of Scotland Clinical Academic fellow (2015-2018) and completed a programme of research on post-stroke anxiety, leading to the development and pilot testing of a telemedicine guided self-help CBT intervention for anxiety after stroke (TASK-CBT) in a randomized controlled trial.

Yvonne is currently involved a portfolio of projects including the development and evaluation of i) TASK intervention ii) Care Calendar-a digital solution to improve safety and reliability of healthcare delivery and iii) robotic device for stroke rehabilitation.

Yvonne was the chief investigator of TASK feasibility randomised controlled trial which demonstrated proof-of-concept of i) the TASK-CBT intervention, ii) a remote efficient clinical trial workflow, and iii) use of wrist-worn actigraphy sensors in stroke and 'mini-stroke' (Transient Ishcaemic Attack).

Recent key publications:
1. Mazzochi AT, Dennis M, Chun HY. Electronic informed consent: effects on enrolment, practical and economic benefits, challenges, and drawbacks-a systematic review of studies within randomized controlled trials. Trials. 2023 Feb 21;24(1):127. doi: 10.1186/s13063-022-06959-6.

2. Edgley K, Chun HY, Whiteley WN, Tsanas A. New Insights into Stroke from Continuous Passively Collected Temperature and Sleep Data Using Wrist-Worn Wearables. Sensors (Basel). 2023 Jan 17;23(3):1069. doi: 10.3390/s23031069.

3. Chun HY, Dittrich T, Øygarden H, Li L. European Stroke Organisation Conference 2021 Plenary Highlights. Stroke. 2022 Jan;53(1):e21-e22. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.037634. Epub 2021 Dec 27.

4. Chun HY, Carson AJ, Tsanas A, Dennis MS, Mead GE, Calabria C, Whiteley WN. Telemedicine cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety after stroke: Proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial. Stroke. 2020 Aug;51(8):2297-2306.

5. Chun HY, Carson AJ, Dennis MS, Mead GE, Whiteley WN. Treating anxiety after stroke (TASK): the feasibility phase of a novel web-enabled randomized controlled trial. Pilot Feasibility Stud. 2018 Aug 14;4:139.

6. Chun HY, Whitely WN, Dennis M, Mead GE, Carson AJ. Anxiety after stroke: the importance of subtyping (2018). Stroke. 2018 Mar;49(3):556-564.

Complete list of publications: https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/yvonne-chun/publications/

Potential collaborators can get in touch by email: [email protected] or [email protected]
twitter: @DrYvonneChun

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 Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Edinburgh

Sept 2021 → …

Consultant Stroke Physician, NHS Lothian

Jan 2021 → …

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