Academic Staff
Ms Stella CHENG
Professor of Practice
PDOT(HKPU), MPH(UoL), ROT (HK)
- GH156
- +852 2766 6694
- stella.wc.cheng@polyu.edu.hk
Biography
Ms Stella Cheng had worked in the public hospitals for over 35 years after she graduated from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Occupational Therapy. She had been an Occupational Therapy Department Manager in Princess Margaret hospital for over 25 years and had developed various rehabilitation services including Cardiac, Pulmonary, Renal and SARS Rehabilitation and had also coordinated and standardized the Work Rehabilitation Service of OT in HA. She was the co-chairman of the Coordinating Committee of Occupational Therapy Service in the Hospital Authority for over 10 years. Before her retirement, she was the Clinical Stream Coordinator for AH service in Kowloon West Cluster of HA. With commitment in safety and quality, she is an Assessor under the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards.
She had involved in various community projects including Occupational Lifestyle Redesign Programme for students at risk in secondary schools and Active Living Programme for the elderly in Residential Care Homes for the Elderly in Kwai Tsing area. With post-graduation training in public health, she is actively involved in the development of Kwai Tsing District Health Center project.
Her recent clinical service specialties are pain management, dementia care, stroke rehabilitation and primary healthcare service.
At present, she is the chairperson of the Hong Kong Occupational Therapy Association and the Hong Kong Delegate to the World Federation of Occupational Therapists.
She had involved in various community projects including Occupational Lifestyle Redesign Programme for students at risk in secondary schools and Active Living Programme for the elderly in Residential Care Homes for the Elderly in Kwai Tsing area. With post-graduation training in public health, she is actively involved in the development of Kwai Tsing District Health Center project.
Her recent clinical service specialties are pain management, dementia care, stroke rehabilitation and primary healthcare service.
At present, she is the chairperson of the Hong Kong Occupational Therapy Association and the Hong Kong Delegate to the World Federation of Occupational Therapists.
- Co-author of Chapter 33 in Post SARS Rehabilitation in Challenges of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, 2008
- Andy S K Cheng, Stella W. C. Cheng, The Predictive Validity of Job-Specific Functional Capacity Evaluation on the Employment Status of Patients With Nonspecific Low Back Pain, Volume 52, Number 7, July 2010, Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2010
- Mary M. L. Chu, Kenneth N. K. Fong, Albert C. H. Lit, Timothy H. Rainer, Stella W. C. Cheng, Frederick L. Y. Au, Henry K. K. Fung, C.M. Wong and H. K. Tong (2017) Occupational Therapy Fall Reduction Home Visit Program for Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Hong Kong After an Emergency Department Visit for a Fall, Journal of American Geriatrics Society, 65:364–372, 2017
- Elderly, Community and Work Rehabilitation
