Dr Luk, Tzu Tsun 陸子璡
Dr Luk, Tzu Tsun 陸子璡
Dr Kevin Luk is a registered nurse and currently a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He has also been appointed as a visiting professor at Dalla Lana School of Public Health, The University of Toronto. His research focuses on devising, testing, and implementing scalable and sustainable interventions for modifying lifestyle risk factors, with a wealth of experience in conducting randomised trials in clinical and community settings. His doctoral study on chat-based intervention for smoking cessation using mobile instant messaging apps like WhatsApp has laid the groundwork for developing similar treatment models to tackle smoking and other lifestyle risk factors. He built and implemented the first WhatsApp chatbot (wa.me/85223328977) in Hong Kong to promote the reach and uptake of smoking cessation services. His expertise in tobacco research is internationally recognised through his appointment as the Associate Editor of Nicotine & Tobacco Research, a prominent journal in the field. Currently, he is leading three competitive external research grants for evaluating advanced digital health interventions for tobacco cessation and gestational diabetes prevention.
Dr Luk has published over 45 articles in international, peer-reviewed journals, including in JAMA Internal Medicine, Lancet Digital Health, and Tobacco Control as a lead author. His research achievements and impact have won him the Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award and the Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award from LKS Faculty of Medicine, HKU, among other accolades.
| Year | Awarding Institution | Qualification |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | The University of Hong Kong | BNurs |
| 2020 | The University of Hong Kong | PhD |
| 2015 | The Nursing Council of Hong Kong | RN |
| Awardees | Award Date | Honours / Awards / Prizes | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-28 | Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2022 | Research Achievement | |
Zhang, G ZHANG, Minjin Chan, MMK | 2022-12-02 | People's Choice E-poster Awardby the 12th Hong Kong International Nursing Forum cum 1st Asia-Pacific Qualitative Health Research Network Conference, HKU School of Nursing | Teaching Accomplishment |
Hsieh, CJ | 2022-09-01 | Faculty Outstanding Research Output Award 2022. "Brief advice, nicotine replacement therapy, sampling, and active referral for expectant fathers who smoke cigarettes": LKS Faculty of Medicine, THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG | Research Achievement |
CHAU, Siu Long Wong, YC | 2021-12-01 | Peers' choice award. A pragmatic randomized controlled trial of nurse-led alcohol brief intervention plus mobile personalized chat-based support on reducing alcohol use in university students: preliminary results: U21 Research Postgraduate Symposium. 8 December 2021, Hong Kong. | Research Achievement |
| 2019-02-01 | SRNT Travel Award: Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco, US | Research Achievement | |
| 2019-04-01 | YS and Christabel Lung Postgraduate Scholarship: The University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2019-05-01 | Pi Iotal Chapter Scholarship: Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing | Research Achievement | |
| 2022-09-01 | Winner of Poster Competition for Faculty of Medicine Undergraduate Students: Hong Kong College of Community Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2022 | Research Achievement |
| Term Period | Position | Professional Societies |
|---|---|---|
| 05/2018-Present | Member | Pi Iota at-Large Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing |
| 09/2019-Present | Member | International Network on Brief Interventions for Alcohol & Other Drugs |
| 01/2017-Present | Member | Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco |
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