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康复治疗科学系支持葵青地区康健中心开幕典礼

康复治疗科学系支持葵青地区康健中心开幕典礼 邝美云社会心理健康教授、康复治疗科学讲座教授及系主任曾永康教授以食物及卫生局基层医疗健康发展督导委员会成员身份带领康复治疗科学系教职员及学生出席葵青地区康健中心开幕典礼。 葵青地区康健中心是香港首间地区康健中心，中心于九月二十五日正式营运。该中心将以全新的方式向区内市民提供健康推广，健康评估，慢性疾病管理及社区复康等服务。 在开幕典礼上，共有20名就读物理治疗的三年级学生及就读职业治疗的四年级学生担任典礼义工以协助仪式的进行及提供支援工作。 详情请参阅香港特别行政区的新闻公报。

理大校长滕锦光教授及行政副校长卢丽华博士与康复治疗科学系学生会面

理大校长滕锦光教授及行政副校长卢丽华博士与康复治疗科学系学生会面 2019至2020年度翱翔师友计划午宴于2019年9月13日举行。我们十分荣幸，得到理大校长滕锦光教授，行政副校长卢丽华博士及杨曾永仪曾永馨脑神经心理学教授、神经心理学讲座教授、医疗及社会科学院院长岑浩强教授拨冗出席，与超过三十名来自康复治疗科学系的教职员及优秀的一年级学生共晋午餐。 滕锦光教授在致欢迎辞时代表理大欢迎所有新生的加入及就读康复治疗科学系，并恭贺他们在刚过去的香港中学文凭试、国际文凭试或体育方面所得到的杰出成绩。滕教授更鼓励学生培养自学能力，并运用在康复治疗科学系所学的专业知识服务社区。 邝美云社会心理健康教授、康复治疗科学讲座教授及系主任曾永康教授表示翱翔师友计划旨在为优秀的一年级学生提供一个与精英校友交流的平台，学生可从一众在物理治疗或职业治疗方面有杰出成就的精英校友身上，获得有关学习和未来就业方面的建议，以加强他们的归属感，并以修读物理治疗和职业治疗为荣。 六名学生代表亦分享了他们选择修读物理治疗或职业治疗的原因及他们对学习的愿景。在学生代表分享后，自助午餐正式开始。席间，各出席人士就不同议题进行交流，特别是有关理大在大湾区的未来发展。他们都十分投入地进行交流并期待于将来的活动中再次见面。  

曾永康教授参观葵青地区康健中心

曾永康教授参观葵青地区康健中心 邝美云社会心理健康教授、康复治疗科学讲座教授及系主任曾永康教授以食物及卫生局基层医疗健康发展督导委员会成员身份，到访葵青地区康健中心，视察筹备情况。 葵青地区康健中心是香港首间地区康健中心，中心将于9月底正式营运。该中心将以全新的方式向区内市民提供健康推广，健康评估，慢性疾病管理及社区复康等服务。 通过参观中心各项设施，由食物及卫生局，卫生署，基层医疗健康发展督导委员会及葵青地区康健中心管治委员会所组成的代表团成员们能更了解葵青地区康健中心在正式营运前的准备情况及所提供的服务。 参观结束前，食物及卫生局局长陈肇始教授向基层医疗健康发展督导委员会成员们简介了地区康健中心的最新发展情况。 有关访问详情，请参阅陈肇始教授的面书专页。

Visit to the Hong Kong Sports Institute

Prof. Hector Tsang (Cally Kwong Mei Wan Professor in Psychosocial Health, Chair Professor of Rehabilitation Sciences and Head, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences (RS)) and Dr Amy Fu (Associate Professor and Associate Head of RS) conducted a visit to the Hong Kong Sports Institute ("HKSI") yesterday (2 September) to better understand the latest development of HKSI on the training of elite athletes. During the lunch meeting with Dr Trisha Leahy (Chief Executive of HKSI), Mr Tony Choi (Deputy Chief Executive of HKSI), and Dr Raymond So (Technical Director of HKSI), Prof. Tsang and Dr Fu took the opportunity to exchange views on the provision of support to the elite athletes and the possible collaborations between RS and HKSI. Followed by a tour visit to the sports medicine and sports sciences departments, as well as the training venues of table tennis and fencing teams, Prof. Tsang and Dr Fu were able to gain a better understanding of the development of HKSI on various aspects including sports physiotherapy, sports recovery, sports nutrition and monitoring, sports psychology and monitoring, sport training and monitoring sections.

Congratulations to Dr Bolton Chau for winning "RS Best Paper Award 2019"

 The Department of Rehabilitation Sciences is pleased to announce that that the RS BEST PAPER AWARD 2019 goes to Dr Bolton Chau (Assistant Professor, RS) for his following publication:   Output Ref. 2018000160 Output Description "The macaque anterior cingulate cortex translates counterfactual choice value into actual behavioral change". Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp.797-808 (May 2019) ISSN 1097-6256(print), 1546-1726(electronic) (http://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0375-6) Authors Fouragnan, Elsa F.* Chau, Bolton K H Folloni, Davide Kolling, Nils Verhagen, Lennart Klein-Flügge, Miriam Tankelevitch, Lev Papageorgiou, Georgios K. Aubry, Jean-Francois Sallet, Jerome Rushworth, Matthew F. S. Name of Journal Nature Neuroscience Impact factor 2018 21.126 SCI/SSCI, non-index SCI Subject Category NEUROSCIENCES - SCIE Total Journals in Category 267 Journal Rank in Category 2 % 0.75%   The selection panel (Prof. David Shum, Prof. David Man, Head of RS) has concluded the result based on the following criteria. • Dr Bolton Chau (listed as 2nd author) has declared equal contribution to the paper. • The journal is highly prestigious in the field and has very high impact factor which far surpassed the other competing papers in this reporting year. • The paper is translational in nature having potential for application in rehabilitation. This award will continue in the coming four years during headship of Prof. Hector Tsang until 2023, hoping to encourage more staff members to produce high impact journal papers.  

Congratulations to Prof. Margaret Mak for winning "RS Best Paper Award 2018"

The Department of Rehabilitation Sciences is pleased to announce that that the RS BEST PAPER AWARD 2018 goes to Prof. Margaret Mak (Professor of Physiotherapy Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Fellow in Rehabilitation Sciences, Associate Dean of Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Professor of RS) for her following publication: Output Description "Long-term effects of exercise and physical therapy in people with Parkinson disease". Nature Reviews Neurology, Vol. 13, No. 11, pp.689-703 (Oct 2017) ISSN 1759-4758(print), 1759-4766(electronic) (http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nrneurol.2017.128) Authors MAK, MKY* YU, WONG Sin Kwan Irene Shen, Xia CHUNG, Lau Ha Name of Journal Nature Reviews Neurology Impact factor 2017 19.819 Grade A/B/C (Grade A: IF = 2.2; Grade B: 2.2IF=1.4; Grade C: IF   A SCI/SSCI, non-index SCI Subject Category CLINICAL NEUROLOGY - SCIE Total Journals in Category 197 Journal Rank in Category 2   This award will continue in the coming four years during headship of Prof. Hector Tsang until 2023, hoping to encourage more staff members to produce high impact journal papers.

RS Inauguration Ceremony 2019/20

The Inauguration Ceremony 2019-2020 of Department of Rehabilitation Sciences (RS) was held on the morning of 28th August 2019, marking the beginning of a new academic life for a new cohort of students. Over 200 guests, comprising the government officials, scolarship donors, clinical educators, RS academic staff and students, attended the Ceremony. Addressing the Ceremony, Prof. Hector Tsang (Cally Kwong Mei Wan Professor in Psychosocial Health, Chair Professor of Rehabilitation Sciences and Head of RS) began his speech by extending a warm welcome to all of the newly admitted physiotherapy and occupational therapy students. He was glad to share the incredible JUPAS admission figures of this year that remain marvelous and outstanding as always, with almost 40 freshmen scoring 36 of above in their best six subjects in HKDSE. Despite of the outstanding results, he hoped that the freshmen could stay humble and never be complacent of themselves. He also advised them to expose themselves to the opportunities of learning outside Hong Kong, given the fact that RS has established numerous prestigious partners with overseas and Chinese Mainland universities on clinical placement. Prof. Tsang then presented some updates on the completion of new teaching and research facilities in the near future, which include three new teaching and research laboratories, new campus in Homantin and a new Rehabilitation Clinic. On behalf of RS, he would like to express his sincere thanks to the support of PolyU management and the HKSAR government, especially the Food and Health Bureau. We were honoured to have the presence of Dr Chui Tak-yi (Under Secretary for Food and Health of Food and Health Bureau, HKSAR) as our officiating guest and to give us a speech. Dr Chui addressed the problem of a shortage of manpower in rehabilitation sector in Hong Kong and he was glad to see the admission of elite students who decide to serve the Hong Kong community as physiotherapists and occupational therapists in the coming years. He wished the freshmen a fruitful and enjoyable university life in RS. Followed by a series of prize presentations to both the awarded teaching staff and top students, Prof. Hector Tsang made a closing remark with warm congratulations to the recently promoted staff members and a vote of thanks to all the guests who attended the Ceremony.

「服务‧学习」昆明2019年"医院-社区康复教育论坛"

「服务‧学习」昆明2019年"医院-社区康复教育论坛" 2019年8月24日-25日，由香港理工大学康复治疗科学系及云南省康医学会联合举办的“医院-社区康复教育论坛”在昆明举行，是此论坛主题为「促进基层社区康复发展与人才培养」。邝美云社会心理健康教授、香港理工大学康复治疗科学讲座教授及系主任曾永康教授发表演说，介绍了香港社区康复的演变和近年发展，并分享他对在大湾区发展社区康复的看法。 由理大康复治疗科学系李曾慧平教授、邓健聪先生和黄家强先生率领的「理大康复治疗科学系社区康复重建团队」于会上分享在云南省鲁甸县地震后提供的社区康复工作。此项灾后康复项目由五间中国内地大学一齐合作，包括首都医科大学、昆明医科大学、福建中医药大学、四川大学华西医院和上海中医药大学，目的为建立一个崭新而又可持续发展的临床护理培训模式，不单为培育将来康复人材而奠定基础，更订立了一个为残疾人士提供服务的准则。理大康复治疗科学系「服务‧学习」团队的职业治疗学生于会上汇报了过去在云南的社区康复工作，并分享了他们的学习体验。他们更邀来一班受惠者分享康复工作为他们带来的转变，令现场听众无不动容。 自2018年汶川地震后，理大康复治疗科学系的教学团队和学生社区服务团队一直致力为社区康复发展而作出努力。团队希望利用自己的专业学识和技术推广身心健康发展和帮助社会上的残疾人士，近年来团队正努力地尝试与更多不同的本地或海外医疗机构乃至工程及设计团体合作，进一步将「服务‧学习」的理念传播开去。

OTSA Elite Occupational Therapist Taster Programme (EOTTP) 2019

Members of Occupational Therapy Student Ambassador (OTSA) has been striving their best to organize various activities for Occupational Therapy (OT) students to broaden their horizons and for the general public to promote OT profession. With secondary school students being one of the major targets of promotion, they organised Elite Occupational Therapist Taster Programme (EOTTP). With the enormous support from the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences (RS), EOTTP was successfully held on 6 July 2019 at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). Over 100 aspiring participants from more than 40 top secondary schools in Hong Kong have joined on this special occasion. After the opening speech given by Dr Andy Cheng (Associate Professor of RS), a kick-off ceremony was done to announce the commencement of the activity. In order to give the participants an overview of OT beforehand, we have invited Mr Tony Wong (Clinical Associate of RS) to have a brief sharing about OT and PolyU OT Programme. After the sharing, the participants were divided into small groups led by OT students and began their one-day experience as an Occupational Therapist. In order to provide a thorough view on the roles and expertise of Occupational Therapists, we have prepared laboratory tours and hands-on experience for the participants. By visiting the teaching classrooms, participants could develop basic understanding about home modification, remedial activities and some common musculoskeletal disorders. On the other hand, we have introduced several OT concepts and models, including 8 areas of occupation and Person-Environment-Occupation Model. With these concepts, participants were encouraged to think as an Occupational Therapist and work on some simple case analysis. It is hoped that the secondary school students could develop a clear picture of OT through this one-day programme. Although EOTTP is the last event organised by OTSA in the academic year 2018-2019, OTSA would continue to promote our profession through different activities in the future.

Physiotherapy Summer Programme 2019

PolyU Summer Programme 2019 – Physiotherapy (PT) was successfully held on 27 June 2019 with over 80 secondary five students from top local secondary schools. The programme aims to enhance the understanding of anatomy for physiotherapy practice. Dr Billy So, Assistant Professor (PT), welcomed the participants and introduced the content of the programme. In order to let the participants to warm up and get to know each other, current PT students from Physiotherapy Students’ Society (PSS) led the ice-breaking activities after the opening speech. After the ice-breaking activities, participants were divided into 4 groups to take turns to attend different mini-lecture sessions, which were: "Anatomy and Physiology of cardiorespiratory system" by Dr Alex Cheung (Research Assistant Professor, PT);  "Functional Anatomy in Lower Limb" by Dr Billy So (Assistant Professor, PT); "Human Anatomy: Facilities and Learning experience" by Dr Stanley Winser (Assistant Professor, PT); and "Fundamental neuroscience research using animal models" by Dr Sonata Yau (Assistant Professor, PT) respectively. The participants enjoyed the mini-lecture sessions since they can experience the mock class of PT programmge. At the end of the programme, Dr Billy So shared the information about admission requirements, course content and career perspective of PT programme.