Faculty

Prof Chong Siow Ann is a senior consultant psychiatrist in the Institute of Mental Health. He has built up mental health research across the board and advanced key areas of research in tardive dyskinesia, psychopharmacology, genetics of schizophrenia, early psychosis, epidemiology and health service research.

As the former Vice Chairman Medical Board (Research) at the Institute of Mental Health, he established the infrastructure and human capital for research in IMH and has personally mentored numerous clinicians and researchers who are now in key appointments in the healthcare sectors and academia.

He has built an extensive platform for cross disciplinary collaboration within and outside Singapore. Under his leadership, IMH has secured more than 71 million dollars of extramural funding for research since 2000, of which more than 60 million dollars were awarded to him as Principal Investigator. And he has more than 500 publications (peer-reviewed papers, editorials, commentaries as well as book chapters), and has received a number research awards. He is also a regular contributor to the Straits Times Op-ed columns.