Research Project
Dr
Lloyd Chan
Current Appointments
Research Fellow (Conjoint)
Lecturer at the School of Health Sciences, UNSW
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 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
2024 Aug
Incidence of fragility hip fracture across the Asia-pacific region: A systematic review
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2024.105422
2024, 01 Jan
Development, Validation, and Limits of Freezing of Gait Detection Using a Single Waist-Worn Device
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1172270842
2024
Poor mobility and lower limb weakness are associated with three distinct depressive symptom trajectories over 6 years in older people
View full journal-article on http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85182244307&partnerID=MN8TOARS
2023, 01 Sep
Prediction of injurious falls in older adults using digital gait biomarkers extracted from large-scale wrist sensor data
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afad179
2023, 13 Jul
The Potential of Wrist-worn Accelerometry in Predicting Injurious Falls and Depressive Episodes in Older Adults
2023, 20 Jan
Development and large-scale validation of the Watch Walk wrist-worn digital gait biomarkers
View full journal-article on http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28191-1
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