Dr. Christopher Chan

Dr Christopher Chan is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in Singapore with a private practice at the Psychiatric Care Clinic in Mount Elizabeth Novena Specialist Centre. He has a subspecialty interest in the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. He believes in having a warm, holistic, patient centered and shared decision making approach to delivering effective care. 

He is currently a visiting consultant at the Mood Disorders Unit (MDU) at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH). During his tenure at IMH, he led the Affective Disorders Service, which is the only quaternary service for the management of treatment resistant mood disorders in Singapore and was the primary ward consultant at the MDU, which is the only subspecialized inpatient unit for the treatment of mood disorders in Singapore. 

He is currently the vice-chairman of the section of neurostimulation as part of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. He played an integral role in the modernization of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and the development of the repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) service at IMH. During this period, he was actively involved in research and was awarded grants from the NHG LKC clinician scientist preparatory program and IMH. He has made numerous presentations at international medical conferences, notably leading a symposium on mood disorders at the International Society of Affective Disorders in 2018 and has published extensively in many peer-reviewed international and local journals. 

He was also heavily involved in education and was an appointed clinical faculty educator with various institutions including Duke-NUS, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKC), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at National University Singapore (NUS) and the Graduate Diploma in Mental Health (GDMH).

Fellowship and accreditation

• MBBS (Singapore) 

• M Med (Psychiatry) (Singapore)

• Fellow, Academy of Medicine Singapore, Section of Neurostimulation (Vice-Chair) 

• Registered with the Specialist Accreditation Board (Psychiatry) (Singapore) 

• Accredited by Parkway Hospitals (Singapore)

• Visiting consultant at IMH Mood Disorders Unit 

Featured publications 

• Adoption and correlates of Postgraduate Hospital Educational Environment Measure (PHEEM) in the evaluation of learning environments - A systematic review. Chan CYW, Sum MY, Lim WS, Chew NW, Samarasekera DD, Sim K. Med Teach. 2016 Dec;38(12):1248-1255. Epub 2016 Aug 26.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27564848/

• Clinicians' perceptions of pharmacogenomics use in psychiatry. Chan CYW, Chua BY, Subramaniam M, Suen EL, Lee J. Pharmacogenomics. 2017 Apr;18(6):531-538. Epub 2017 Mar 14.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28290747/

• Adoption and correlates of the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM) in the evaluation of undergraduate learning environments - a systematic review. Chan CYW, Sum MY, Tan GMY, Tor PC, Sim K. Med Teach. 2018 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29361860/

• Relationship between In-Training Examination and Workplace Based Assessment Scores for Residents within an ACGME-I accredited National Psychiatry Residency Program in Singapore. Chan CYW, Yock Y, Kang S. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2018 Apr;47(4).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29777249/ 

• Reducing Adverse Events Resulting from Crisis Interventions on Inpatient Psychiatric Wards in Singapore. East Asian Archives of Psychiatry 2019. Poremski D., Loo E., Chan CYW, Li L., Fung D.  

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31871310/

• Patient Characteristics and Outcomes in the Only Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in Singapore: An Audit Study. ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry. December 2018. Tang CT, Chan CYW, Siak E, Kunjithapatham G. 

https://www.aseanjournalofpsychiatry.org/abstract/analysing-profiles-an-audit-on-patient-characteristics-and-outcomes-in-the-only-psychiatric-intensive-care-unit-picu-in--53717.html

• A Retrospective Study of Cognitive Improvement Following Electroconvulsive Therapy in Schizophrenia Inpatients. J ECT. 2019 Jan 8. Seow LSE, Subramaniam M, Chan YWC, Martin DM, Abdin E, Chong SA, Liu J, Peh CX, Tor PC.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30628992/

• Clinical Effectiveness and Speed of Response of ECT in Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2019 Apr 26. Chan YWC, Abdin E, Seow LSE, Liu J, Peh CX, Subramaniam M, Tor PC.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31026106/

• The Concurrent Use of Two Long‐Acting Injectables (LAI) in the Maintenance Treatment of Bipolar Disorder. Bipolar Disorders. Oct 2020. Li‐Ying Charlotte Koh,  Nisha Chandwani,  Shuli Lim,  Chan YWC

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33125821/

• Efficacy of ECT in patients with psychotic vs non-psychotic depression. Chan YWC, Lee Jimmy. EPA 2020 congress. 

• Comparison of mental-physical comorbidity, risk of death and mortality among patients with mental disorders - A retrospective cohort study. Tan XW, Lee ES, Toh MPHS, Lum AWM, Seah DEJ, Leong KP, Chan CYW, Fung DSS, Tor PC. J Psychiatr Res. 2021 Oct

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34320455/

• Association of cardiovascular metabolic risk factor measurements with psychiatric readmission among in-hospital patients with severe mental illness: a retrospective study. Tan XW, Chan CYW, Lum AWM, Lee ES, Mok YM, Fung DSS, Tor PC. BMC Psychiatry. 2022 Jan 18

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35042498/