Present Appointment:
• Senior Consultant, Institute of Mental Health
• Adjunct Associate Professor, National University Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Research Areas:
• Clinical characterization of major psychiatric disorders
• Neural basis of major psychiatric disorders
• Medical Education
Teaching Areas:
• Undergraduate and postgraduate
Awards/Honours (Post-PhD):
• Singapore Clinician-Investigator Award (Gold), Singapore Health and Biomedical
Congress, 2011
• NHG Education Leader Award, 2014
Career History:
• Institute of Mental Health since 1997
Administrative Leadership:
• Program Director, National Psychiatry Residency Program
Professional/Consulting Activities:
• Clinical consultations at Institute of Mental Health
Major Publications:
1. Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci. Nature. 2014 Jul; 511(7510):421-7.
2. Ho NF, Iglesias JE, Sum MY, Kuswanto CN, Sitoh YY, De Souza J, Hong Z Fischl B, Roffman JL, Zhou J Sim K, Holt DJ. Progression from selective to general involvement of hippocampal subfields in schizophrenia. Molecular Psychiatry. 2017 Jan; 22(1):142-152.
3. Sun Y, Dai Z, Li J, Collinson SL, Sim K. Modular-level alterations of structure-function coupling in schizophrenia connectome. Human Brain Mapping. 2017 Apr; 38(4):2008-2025.