Sook-Lei Liew, PhD, OTR/L
Associate Professor, University of Southern California
Sook-Lei Liew is an Associate Professor and Director of the Neural Plasticity and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory at the University of Southern California. She has joint appointments in the divisions of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience, and Neurology, and is a member of the USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute. She is the Chair of the ENIGMA Stroke Recovery Working Group, which uses big data neuroimaging and neuroinformatics approaches to understand brain-behavior patterns supporting recovery from stroke and which aggregates high-resolution MRI and behavioral data from thousands of patients collected across more than 50 research cohorts from 10 countries worldwide. She also is a co-director and co-founder of the USC SMART-VR (SensoriMotor Assessment and Rehabilitation Training) Center (smartvr.usc.edu). The overall goal of Dr. Liew’s research is to understand mechanisms of neural plasticity in healthy individuals and individuals after neurological injury that support a person’s ability to learn new skills and recover from brain injury. She has over 45 peer-reviewed publications, given over 120 invited talks and conference presentations, and received over $4.5 million in funding from agencies such as the NIH, National Science Foundation, US Army, and American Heart Association.
