About Dr Luke Chen
Dr Luke Chen MBBS FRACP PhD
Dr Luke Chen is a neurologist and neuro-otologist. He sees patients with hearing and balance disorders and has particular clinical and research interests in vestibular physiology and eye movement disorders . He obtained his PhD from the University of Sydney, and his thesis examined quantitative abnormalities affecting the connecting balance pathways between the inner ear and the brain in neurological conditions such as acute stroke, multiple sclerosis and neurodegenerative diseases.
Dr Chen holds the positions of Visiting Medical Officer in neurology at St George Hospital and Conjoint Lecturer at UNSW Sydney. He is a consultant neurologist at Neurology Network Melbourne, Sydney Neurology (Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney) and North Shore Vertigo and Neurology Clinic. He supervises Ears in Balance, a specialty clinic that focuses on diagnosis of vestibular disorders. Dr Chen is a regular reviewer for several international journals which publish on vestibular disorders. He serves as a member on the Scientific/ Medical Advisory Board of MdDS Australia, a not for profit organisation which was established to provide support for patients and to increase awareness of Mal de Debarquement Syndrome, and also sits on the executive committee of the Temporal Bone Donor Society Inc. which aims to increase aware of temporal bone donation after life. He is actively involved in teaching of medical students, basic physician trainees and advanced trainees in neurology, and presents original research regularly at national and international meetings.
Awards and Grants:
Training Fellowship
Professional Memberships:
- Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists
- American Academy of Neurology
- Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- Neuro-otology Society of Australia
- The Barany Society, The International Society for Neuro-otology
- Australian Medical Association
Publications:
Journal Articles
- Chen L, Maclaurin W, Gerraty RP. Isolated unilateral ptosis and mydriasis from ventral midbrain infarction. J Neurol 2009 Jul;256(7):1164-5
- Chen L, Lee W, Chambers BR, Dewey HM. Diagnostic accuracy of acute vestibular syndrome at the bedside in a stroke unit. J Neurol 2011 May;258(5):855-61.
- Bradshaw J, Chen L, Saling M, Fitt G, Dowd A. Neurocognitive recovery in SMART syndrome with complex partial seizures. Cephalalgia 2011 Feb;31(3):372-6.
- Lee W, Chen L, Waterston JA. Vertebrobasilar ischaemia presenting as recurrent isolated vertigo Acta Otolaryngol. 2011 Aug;131(8):887-9.
- Lee, W, Chen L, Fitt G. Focal hyperperfusion on ictal cerebral perfusion computed tomography in partial seizures mimicking acute stroke. Intern Med J. 2011 Nov;41(11):800-2.
- Chen L, Bradshaw A, Welgampola MS. Evaluation of the patient with acute vertigo. Medicine Today 2012;13(6):25-32.
- Taylor R, Chen L, Lechner C, Aw ST, Welgampola MS. Vestibular schwannoma mimicking horizontal cupulolithiasis. J Clin Neurosci. 2013 Aug;20(8):1170-3
- Chen L, Todd MJ, Halmagyi GM, Aw ST. Vestibular and saccadic abnormalities in Gaucher’s disease. JIMD Rep. 2014;13:111-8.
- Chen L, Todd MJ, Halmagyi GM, Aw ST. Head impulse gain and saccade analysis in pontine-cerebellar stroke and vestibular neuritis. Neurology. 2014 Oct 21;83(17):1513-22. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000906.
- Wang C*, Paling D*, Chen L, Hatton SN, Lagopoulos J, Aw ST, Kiernan MC, Barnett MH. Axonal conduction in multiple sclerosis: a combined magnetic resonance imaging and electrophysiological study of the medial longitudinal fasciculus. Mult Scler. 2015 Jun;21(7):905-15. doi: 10.1177/1352458514556301.
- Akdal G, MacDougall HG, Chen L, Tanrıverdizade T, Yiğitaslan O, Halmagyi GM. Selective impairment of horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflexes in acute Wernicke’s encephalopathy. J Neurol Sci 2016 doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2016.04.013
- Halmagyi GM, Chen L, MacDougall HM, Weber KP, McGarvie LA, Curthoys IS. The video head impulse test. Front Neurol 2017 Jun 9;8:258. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2017.00258
- Foster EC, Chen L. Exercise induced vertigo in vestibular schwannoma. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg Jul 27. doi: 10.1001/jamaoto.2017.0993.
- Aw ST*, Chen L*, Todd MJ, Barnett MH, Halmagyi GM. Vestibulo-ocular reflex deficits with medial longitudinal fasciculus lesions. J Neurol 2017 Sep 6. doi: 10.1007/s00415-017-8607-8
- Chen L, Halmagyi GM. Central lesions with selective semicircular canal involvement mimicking bilateral vestibulopathy. Front Neurol 2018 Apr 24. DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00264
Book Chapters:
L. Chen and G.M. Halmagyi, Vestibulocochlear Nerve (Cranial Nerve VIII), In Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences (Second Edition), edited by Michael J. Aminoff and Robert B. Daroff,,
Academic Press, Oxford, 2014, Pages 657-658,
ISBN 9780123851581
L. Chen and G.M. Halmagyi, Vestibular Neuritis and Labyrinthitis, In Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences (Second Edition), edited by Michael J. Aminoff and Robert B. Daroff
Academic Press, Oxford, 2014, Page 642,
ISBN 9780123851581
L. Chen, A. Bradshaw and G.M. Halmagyi, Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo, In Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences (Second Edition), edited by Michael J. Aminoff and Robert B. Daroff,
Academic Press, Oxford, 2014, Pages 409-410,
ISBN 9780123851581
