Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine

Biography

Prof. Carmen Chan’s investigation into symptom prevention and control in people in various age groups and at different stages of the disease journey is precisely constructed, and has proved both innovative and successful. As the study of clusters has been acknowledged to be at the cutting edge of symptom management science, her early work on the identification and management of symptom clusters in patients with advanced lung cancer was novel and contributed to the international body of health care knowledge. It also laid a foundation for her subsequent studies on symptom management, including the prevention and treatment of oral mucositis, skin rash, breathlessness, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, pain, anxiety and sexual function. With the adoption of a holistic approach, her research work is often multi-disciplinary and multi-faceted, attentive to the physiological, psychosocial and cultural aspects of well-being. She has pioneered biological nursing studies on lung disease to identify biomarkers for early detection of the inflammation process and symptom control, and successfully obtained an external competitive grant to pursue the study.

Research Interest

Lung cancer,mucositis, skin rash, breathlessness, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, pain, anxiety, sexual function, Health Care and Pulmonary Diseases