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Sook-Lei Liew, PhD, OTR/L

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Associate Professor

CONTACT sliew@usc.edu
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Sook-Lei Liew is an associate professor with joint appointments in the USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Health, USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Department of Neurology and USC Viterbi School’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. She specializes in observations of motor systems during action using neuroimaging and behavioral methods; mechanisms of neural plasticity and neural repair using noninvasive brain stimulation and brain-computer interfaces; the use of brain-computer interfaces with stroke patients; and noninvasive brain stimulation to enhance motor learning in healthy individuals.

EDUCATION
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Human Cortical Physiology and Neurorehabilitation, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, 2014
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Occupational Science, Concentration: Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Southern California, 2012
  • Master of Arts, Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California, 2008
  • Bachelor of Arts, Kinesiology/English, Rice University, 2006

 

See Sook-Lei Liew’s curriculum vitae.