Chien Wai Tong
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Biography
Wai-Tong Chien is a professor in mental health nursing at School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for six years and the Associate Head for Research and Scholarship since 2014. As an advanced mental health nursing practitioner and active researcher, Prof. CHIEN has strived to improve mental health in her native Hong Kong SAR, China in the past 25 years by establishing psychoeducation, motivational interviewing, mindfulness-based, mutual support group, and other psychosocial interventions to community-resided people with mental health problems and their family members, as well as through research, advocacy and mental health promotion. He has also served as editors and editorial board members of international refereed nursing/healthcare journals, as well as invited speakers of international conferences/seminars. He has obtained over 25 health research grants with >HKD14,000,000 (>US$2,000,000) and published over 130 articles in peer-reviewed international nursing/psychiatric/health care journals and substantial number of conference papers and book chapters