Associate Professor, Senior Consultant, Institute of Mental Health; Singapore

Dr Hong-Choon CHUA is Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) in Singapore. A psychiatrist by training, Dr Chua is also the Chairman of the national Residency Advisory Committee (RAC) for Psychiatry, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Yong Loo Lin Medical School and the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.

Dr Chua has keen interests in the fields of public health, psychiatric epidemiology, depression, and quality & safety in mental health care. He completed a nationwide epidemiological survey of Depressive and Anxiety Disorders in Adult Singaporeans in 2004, and from 2007 to 2010, he was Senior Consultant (mental health) to Singapore’s Ministry of Health to oversee several major projects to promote mental wellbeing and to expand mental health services for the nation. From 2004 to 2011, Dr Chua was also the Patient Safety Officer at the Institute of Mental Health, where he developed programmes and initiatives to improve clinical quality and safeguard patient safety at IMH.