Teaching Areas

• Clinical Nutrition

• Nutrition Care Process
• Nutritional Management of Chronic Diseases
• Nutrition and Life Cycle
• Human Physiology
• Public Health Nutrition
• Nutrition Counseling Skills

Research Areas

• Perioperative Medicine
• Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT)
• Clinical Trials
• Inpatient Malnutrition
• Nutritional Prehabilitation
• Surgical Nutrition
• Postoperative Outcomes
• Patient-Centered Outcomes

Current Research

• Medical nutrition and clinical research in perioperative medicine
• Diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) of malnutrition screening tools
• Prevalence of preoperative malnutrition and its association with patient-centered outcomes
• Effect of nutritional prehabilitation on quality of recovery after cardiac surgery
• A randomized controlled trial of dietitian-guided preoperative dietary protein optimization in malnourished cardiac patients

Research Team

• Professor Anna Lee’s Research Group (Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Faculty of Medicine, CUHK)
• The Arthur Lab – Professor Anna Arthur (The University of Kansas Medical Center)

Fellowships

• The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS), Research Grants Council
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship, CUHK
• Jeannette Chu and Winston Lo Endowed Fellowship in Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois

Publications and News

• Chen X, Chiu C, Cheung HHT, Crowder SL, Chen X, Trinh L, Arthur A. Breast cancer survivors’ diet and physical activity preferences and barriers: how COVID-19 changed the intervention landscape.Current Developments in Nutrition. 2024 Dec 10. ISSN 2475-2991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.104519.
• Cheung HHT, Joynt GM, Lee A. Diagnostic test accuracy of preoperative nutritional screening tools in adults for malnutrition: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. Int J Surg. 2023 Oct 13. doi: 10.1097/JS9.0000000000000845. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37830947.
• Yeung CY, So KY, Cheung HHT, Hou PY, Ko HF, Lee A. Comparison of instructor-led compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training for secondary school students: A multicenter noninferiority randomized trial. Resuscitation Plus. 2023 Oct 20;16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resplu.2023.100487.
• Cheung HHT, Yau DKW, Chiu LCS, Wong MKH, Yeung SSY, Underwood MJ, Wong RHL, Joynt GM, Lee A. Effect of prehabilitation-related DIETary protein intake on Quality of Recovery after elective cardiac surgery (DIETQoR) study: protocol of a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2023 Jul 20;13(7):e069528. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069528. PMID: 37474186; PMCID: PMC10360431.
• Wong SSY, Cheung HHT, Ng FF, Yau DKW, Wong MKH, Lau VNM, Leung WW, Mak TWC, Lee A. Effect of a patient education video and prehabilitation on the quality of preoperative person-centred coordinated care experience: protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2022 Sep 29;12(9):e063583. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063583. PMID: 36175104; PMCID: PMC9528577.

Awards and Honours

• 2nd Place – Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Science Poster Competition (ELPC), American Society for Nutrition (ASN) NUTRITION 2023
• Finalist - 2023 Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) Moderated ePoster Session & Open ePoster Prize
• Certificate of Achievement – Top 18/113 Abstracts, Evidence-Based Perioperative Medicine (EBPOM) World Congress 2022
• Graduate Fellowship Recognition Award (2018), University of Illinois
• Holmes Fellowship Merit Award (2018), University of Illinois