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Professor Jojo KWOK

Title:
Associate Director, Centre on Behavioral Health within the Faculty of Social Sciences
Assistant Professor

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
2010The Chinese University of Hong KongBN (1st Hons)
2015The Chinese University of Hong KongMPH
2018The Chinese University of Hong KongPhD
Biography

Dr. Jojo Kwok is a registered nurse and certified yoga instructor in Hong Kong, and currently an Assistant Professor at School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong. Her research interests focus on chronic illness care, gerontology, mental health as well as behavioral medicine. She advocates psychologically informed physical therapy to improve health outcomes. She has initiated the first mindfulness yoga clinical trial in Hong Kong, which concluded that mindfulness yoga is an effective, safe and superior mind-body treatment option for stress and motor symptoms management in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Her research findings have been published in international, peer-reviewed journals, such as JAMA Neurology, and featured as impactful news in both local and international mass media, including Reuters Health, Neurology Today and Radio Television Hong Kong.

Jojo has accumulated an admirable list of academic honors, international achievements and local community services. She has received an Early Career Award and Meritorious Scientific Abstract Award offered by the International Society of Behavioral Medicine in 2018, and an Early Career Researcher Award (runner-up) offered by the international peer-reviewed journal Complementary Therapies in Medicine in 2016. She has been invited to deliver a plenary speech, titled “Yoga as Lifestyle Medicine: Prescription of Healthy Living”, at the 23rd International Conference on Frontiers in Yoga Research and its Applications (INCOFYRA) in Bengaluru, India in 2020. She has been a committee member of the Hong Kong Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (HKPDF) Education and Training Committee since 2016 to facilitate the knowledge transfer of evidence-based care among the local Parkinson’s community.

 
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
2023-07-01Emerging Nurse Researcher/Scholar Award
Research Achievement
2019-03-01Nurse Leader, Pi Iota Chapter: Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International
Research Achievement
2020-05-01Pi Iota Chapter Scholarship 2019/2020: Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International
Research Achievement
2018-11-01Early Career Award: International Society of Behavioral Medicine
Research Achievement
2021-06-01Outstanding New Researcher Award: International Society of Behavioral Medicine
Research Achievement
2019-03-01Nurse Leader: Pi Iota Chapter, Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International
Research Achievement
2018-11-01Meritorious Scientific Abstract Award: International Society of Behavioral Medicine
Research Achievement
Professional Societies
Term PeriodPositionProfessional Societies
01/2016MemberInternational Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society
05/2019-Co-opt Member (Nurse Leader)Pi Iota Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing
01/2016-Committee memberThe Hong Kong Parkinson’s Disease Foundation Education and Training Committee
06/2021-Ordinary MemberThe Hong Kong Academy of Nursing (Education & Research – Education)
06/2023-Council memberThe Hong Kong Parkinson’s Disease Foundation
01/2018-Life MemberHong Kong Society of Behavioral Health
06/2021Editorial Board MemberBMC Public Health
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