Prof Teo graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 2009 and completed his Neurology and Advanced Internal Medicine specialty training at Queen Mary Hospital. He joined the Department of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong as a Clinical Assistant Professor in December 2023. 

Prof Teo's clinical expertise is in stroke and neurocritical care. He contributed significantly to the development of these fields in Hong Kong where his team pioneered prehospital stroke notification and the use of continuous quantitative electroencephalogram locally. He also received certification in Neurosonology from the American Society of Neuroimaging in 2019. 

Prof Teo's key research area includes stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, and post-stroke blood pressure management. He has been the principal investigator of the HKU Intracerebral Hemorrhage cohort since 2013 and is currently the deputy director of the HKU Stroke Research and Prevention Group (HKU Stroke). Prof Teo had conducted clinical research in intracerebral hemorrhage as a visiting researcher at the Rosand Lab, Havard Medical School, in 2019. He has multiple publications relating to stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage, including in Stroke and the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Prof Teo has been rewarded the Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award (2020), the Hong Kong West Cluster Outstanding Team Award for Comprehensive Acute Stroke Service, and the Best Free Paper Award at the Asia Pacific Stroke Conference (2023). Currently, he is focusing research on novel acute therapies for stroke, artificial intelligence-driven prognostication in intracerebral hemorrhage, and strategies to optimize cardiac and cerebrovascular outcomes after stroke, especially in telemedicine.

1. Teo KC, Fong SM, Leung WCY, Leung IYH, Wong YK, Choi OMY, Yam KK, Lo RCN, Cheung RTF, Ho SL, Tsang ACO, Leung GKK, Chan KH, Lau KK. Location-specific Hematoma Volume Cut-off and Clinical Outcomes in Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Stroke. 2023;54(6):1548-1557
2. Teo KC, Keins S, Abramson JR, Leung WCY, Leung IYH, Wong YK, Yeung C, Kourkoulis C, Warren AD, Chan KH, Cheung RTF, Ho SL, Gurol ME, Viswanathan A, Greenberg SM, Anderson CD, Lau KK, Rosand J, Biffi A. Blood Pressure Control Targets and Risk of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Events After Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Stroke. 2023 Jan;54(1), 78–86
3. Myserlis EP, Mayerhofer E, Abramson JR, Teo KC, Montgomery BE, Sugita L, Warren AD, Goldstein JN, Gurol ME, Viswanathan A, Greenberg SM, Biffi A, Anderson CD, Rosand J. Lobar intracerebral hemorrhage and risk of subsequent uncontrolled blood pressure. Eur Stroke J. 2022 Sep;7(3):280-288. doi: 10.1177/23969873221094412
4. Castello JP*, Teo KC*, Abramson JR, Keins S, Takahashi CE, Leung IYH, Leung WCY, Wang Y, Kourkoulis C, Pavlos Myserlis E, Warren AD, Henry J, Chan KH, Cheung RTF, Ho SL, Gurol ME, Viswanathan A, Greenberg SM, Anderson CD, Lau KK, Rosand J, Biffi A. Long-Term Blood Pressure Variability and Major Adverse Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Events After Intracerebral Hemorrhage. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022 Mar 15;11(6):e024158 (*co-first author)
5. Lau KK, Chua BJ, Ng A, Leung IY, Wong YK, Chan AH, Chiu YK, Chu AX, Leung WCY, Tsang AC, Teo KC, Mak HK. Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Risk of Recurrent Vascular Events in Chinese Patients With Ischemic Stroke With and Without Significant Atherosclerosis. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 Aug 17;10(16):e021855
6. Biffi A*, Teo KC*, Leung IYH, Leung WCY, Wang Y, Kourkoulis C, Myserlis EP, Warren AD, Henry J, Chan KH, Cheung RTF, Ho SL, Gurol ME, Viswanathan A, Greenberg SM, Anderson CD, Lau KK, Rosand J. Impact of uncontrolled hypertension at 3 months after Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Journal of American Heart Association. 2021 Jun;10(11):e020392. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.120.020392 (*co-first author)
7. Leung WCY, Teo KC, Kwok WM, Lam LHC, Choi OMY, Tse MMY, Lui WM, Tsang TC, Tsang ACO. Pre-hospital stroke screening and notification of patients with reperfusion-eligible acute ischaemic stroke using modified Face Arm Speech Time test. Hong Kong Med J. 2020 Dec;26(6):479-485
8. Teo KC, Leung WCY, Wong YK, Liu RKC, Chan AHY, Choi OMY, Leung KK, Tse MY, Cheung RTF, Tsang ACO, Lau KK. Delays in Stroke Onset to Hospital Arrival Time During COVID-19. Stroke. 2020;51:2228–2231

• Health and Medical Research Fund (Food and Health Bureau) – 2022

  MOBILE health intervention in IntraCerebral Hemorrhage survivors (MOBILE-ICH)

• Young Investigator Research Grant, Hong Kong College of Physicians – 2023

• Best Free Paper Award, Asia Pacific Stroke Conference (2023)
• Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award (2020)
• Hong Kong West Cluster (Hospital Authority) Outstanding Team 2017/2018 (2018)
• Hong Kong Neurological Society Scholarship for Young Neurologist (2018)
• Hospital Authority Corporate Scholarship (2018)
• First Runner-up, Best Free Paper Award, Asian and Oceanian Congress of Neurology (2014)

2024     Co-opted member, Hong Kong Stroke Society