Ka-Chun Siu

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Dr. Ka-Chun Siu (Joseph Siu) (Chinese: 蕭家俊博士) is a Research Scientist at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a Project Director at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). His research areas include Motor Control, Motor Learning, Robotic Surgery and Neurological Physical Therapy.

Joseph Ka-Chun Siu, PhD was born and raised in Hong Kong. He obtained his BS in Physical Therapy from the Kaohsiung Medical University, School of Rehabilitation Medicine in Taiwan, ROC in 1999 and became a Registered Physical Therapist.

In 2001, he began his doctoral studies in motor control and learning at the University of Oregon in the Department of Human Physiology. His mentor and advisor was Dr. Marjorie Woollacott. While at Oregon, he was a Graduate Teaching Fellow, Instructor, Graduate Research Fellow and Webmaster. His dissertation focused on how cognitive functions affect balance during obstacle crossing in healthy young, healthy elderly and elderly with balance impairments. He found that when elderly switch their attention between two tasks while walking, it significantly affects the stability of their gait.

After receiving his doctorate in August of 2006, Dr. Siu immediately began working as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate for the HPER Biomechanics Laboratory. His duties include being the Project Leader for Robot-Assisted Surgery, Instructor, Journal Club supervisor, grant writer and webmaster. His research project is to discover and refine motor learning tasks for beginning surgeons to acquire proficiency in the use of the Da Vinci Surgical System. He is especially interested in developing appropriate training protocols to optimize surgical proficiency to perform robotic surgery.