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Dr

Lloyd Chan


Current Appointments

Research Fellow (Conjoint)
Lecturer at the School of Health Sciences, UNSW
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Dr Chan PhD, MACP, Physio is a lecturer at the University of New South Wales and a conjoint research fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from UNSW, a Master's in Epidemiology and Biostatistics with Salutatorian honours from CUHK, and a Bachelor's degree in Physiotherapy with honours from PolyU. In addition to his academic work, Lloyd has extensive experience as a physiotherapist, providing care to stroke survivors and people with Parkinson's disease across acute hospitals, rehabilitation centres, and outreach settings.

His research focuses on two key areas: quantifying daily-life walking speed and quality, and predicting diseases using smartwatches. The resultant innovations have been adopted by fellow researchers and translated into actual clinical practices. Currently, he is working on sensor-based gait abnormality detection in various clinical populations, including people with Parkinson's disease, stroke survivors and those with proximal femoral fractures.


Publications

2025, 04 Aug

The Prevalence and Incidence of Fencing Injuries and Associated Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1097/JSM.0000000000001386

2025, 01 Aug

Frailty assessed by a wrist-worn device can predict hospitalisation and mortality in middle-aged and older adults: a UK Biobank study

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf210

2025, 01 Jun

Daily-life walking speed, running duration and bedtime from wrist-worn sensors predict incident dementia: A watch walk – UK biobank study

View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1184167806

2025, 30 May

First-Day Mobilization Opportunity After Hip Fracture Surgery Reduces In-Hospital Complications: A Population Data Linkage Study.”. Platform presentation at the World Physiotherapy Congress 2025.

2025, 30 May

Watch Walk Platform: A Fee-Waived Software for Analyzing Wrist-Worn Sensor Data to Measure Real-World Gait Speed, Quality and Step Counts.

2025, 29 May

Real-world Walking Speed, Quality, Distribution, and Step Count: Which is the Strongest Predictor of Cardiovascular Death?

2025 Apr

The effect of pain on gait in older people: A systematic review and meta-analysis

View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2024.104758

2025, 01 Jan

Cognitive functioning and falls in older people: A systematic review and meta-analysis

View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1175736019

2024, 01 Oct

A Wrist-Worn Wearable Device Can Identify Frailty in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: The UK Biobank Study

View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1174585619

2024, 01 Aug

Daily-Life Walking Speed, Quality and Quantity Derived from a Wrist Motion Sensor: Large-Scale Normative Data for Middle-Aged and Older Adults

View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1174713840