Daniel Fung Shuen Sheng

Adjunct Associate Professor

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Dr Fung is the Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Mental Health and a Senior Consultant with the Department of Developmental Psychiatry.  He is also Programme Director of the Ministry of Health’s Community Mental Health Team for children and adolescents (REACH). He was the President of the Singapore Association for Mental Health (2009-2016) and has sat on various boards of Voluntary Welfare Organisations/ NGOs and has been on the school board of Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School since 2004.  He is an Adjunct Associate Professor with Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS.  He teaches medical students from all 3 medical schools in Singapore.  Dr Fung has also been involved in several large scale research studies on children and adolescents.  Dr Fung is the President of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) (2018-2022) and was Secretary General between 2010-2014 and past President of the Asian Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professionals (2008 to 2010).  He has a special interest in digital health, emotional disorders and neurodevelopmental disorders (including learning disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).

Dr Fung’s research interest is in anxiety and disruptive behaviour disorders and the relationship with learning disorders.  He is currently working on several projects involving neurophysiological and psychological interventions in neurobehavioral disorders. 

He was involved in a longitudinal cohort study on the epidemiology of video games and gaming and its relationship to psychiatric disorders.  He is part of an International Collaborative DEPRESSD Project and has been looking into the screening of depression across childhood psychiatric diagnosis.  Dr Fung is also on the Editorial Board of Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (since 2019) and Frontiers Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (since 2020)

  1. Chew AMK, Ong R, Lei H-H, Rajendram M, K V G, Verma SK, Fung DSS, Leong JJ-y and Gunasekeran DV (2020) Digital Health Solutions for Mental Health Disorders During COVID-19. Front. Psychiatry 11:582007. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.582007 [IF (2019): 2.849]
  2. Renjan V, Fung DSS. Debate: COVID-19 to the under 19 - a Singapore school mental health response. Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2020 Oct 13. doi: 10.1111/camh.12426. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33049102. [IF (2019): 1.77]
  3. Sng KI, Hawes DJ1 , Hwang S, Allen JL , Fung DSS. Callous-Unemotional Traits Among Children and Adolescents in Asian Cultures: A Systematic Review. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology vol. 51, 7-8: pp. 576-596 [IF (2019): 2.012]
  4. Zhang MWB, Heng S, Song G, Fung DSS, Smith HE. Development of a co-designed gamified attention bias modification app for individuals with opioid use disorder. Technol Health Care. 2020 Sep 22. doi: 10.3233/THC-202522. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33074203. [IF (2019): 0.806]
  5. Iversen SA, Ogallo B, Belfer M, Fung D, Hoven CW, Carswell K, Skokauskas N. Enhancing mental health pre-service training with the WHO mhGAP Intervention Guide: experiences learned and the way forward. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2021 Jan 11;15(1):1. doi: 10.1186/s13034-020-00354-2. PMID: 33430893.  [IF (2019): 2.061]
  6. Tor HT, Ooi CP, Lim-Ashworth NS, Wei JKE, Jahmunah V, Oh SL, Acharya UR, Fung DSS. Automated detection of conduct disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder using decomposition and nonlinear techniques with EEG signals. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2021 Mar;200:105941. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.105941. Epub 2021 Jan 14. PMID: 33486340. [IF (2019): 3.632]
  7. Zhang M, Vallabhajosyula R, Fung D. Emotional Bias Modification for Individuals With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Protocol for a Co-Design Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2020 Dec 23;9(12):e24078. doi: 10.2196/24078. PMID: 33355536; PMCID: PMC7787886.
  8. Lau TWI, Lim CG, Acharryya S, Lim-Ashworth N, Tan YR, Fung SSD. Gender differences in externalizing and internalizing problems in Singaporean children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health. 2021 Jan 22;15(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s13034-021-00356-8. PMID: 33482840; PMCID: PMC7825195. [IF (2020): 3.033]
  9. Chudal R, Tiiri E, Brunstein Klomek A, Ong SH, Fossum S, Kaneko H, Kolaitis G, Lesinskiene S, Li L, Huong MN, Praharaj SK, Sillanmäki L, Slobodskaya HR, Srabstein JC, Wiguna T, Zamani Z, Sourander A; Eurasian Child Mental Health Study (EACMHS) Group. Victimization by traditional bullying and cyberbullying and the combination of these among adolescents in 13 European and Asian countries. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2021 Apr 21. doi: 10.1007/s00787-021-01779-6. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33884501. [IF (2020): 4.785]
  10. Ganesh Kudva, K.; Abdin, E.; Vaingankar, J.A.; Chua, B.Y.; Shafie, S.; Verma, S.K.; Fung, D.S.S.; Heng Mok Kwee, D.; Chong, S.A.; Subramaniam, M. The Relationship between Suicidality and Socio-Demographic Variables, Physical Disorders, and Psychiatric Disorders: Results from the Singapore Mental Health Study 2016. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 4365. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084365 [IF (2020): 3.390]
  11. Lum A, Goh YL, Wong KS, Seah J, Teo G, Ng JQ, Abdin E, Hendricks MM, Tham J, Nan W, Fung D. Impact of Covid-19 on the mental health of singaporean GPs: a cross-sectional study. BJGP Open. 2021 Jun 25:BJGPO.2021.0072. doi: 10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0072. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34172477. [IF (2020): 5.386]
  12. Ong SH, Tan YR, Khong JZN, Elliott JM, Sourander A, Fung DSS. Psychosocial Difficulties and Help-Seeking Behaviors in Singapore Adolescents Involved in Cyberbullying. Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2021 Jun 23. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2020.0630. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34161149. [IF (2020): 4.157]
  13. Lee CYS, Goh TJ, Meaney MJ, Cai S, Tan KH, Shek LP, Chong YS, Broekman B, Fung DSS. Our children then and now: Changes in mental health symptoms among Singaporean children from 2003 to 2017. Asian J Psychiatr. 2021 Jul 14;63:102773. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102773. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34298431.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102773. [IF (2020): 3.543]
  14. Tan XW, Lee ES, Toh MPHS, Lum AWM, Seah DEJ, Leong KP, Chan CYW, Fung DSS, Tor PC. Comparison of mental-physical comorbidity, risk of death and mortality among patients with mental disorders - A retrospective cohort study. J Psychiatr Res. 2021 Jul 22;142:48-53. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.07.039. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34320455. [IF (2020): 4.791]
  15. Low CHC, Goh TJ, Chan YH, Fung DSS, Cheong PY. Mental Resilience of Medical Practitioners in Singapore during COVID-19: Survey Results from a Webinar Course on Resilience. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Sep 17;18(18):9801. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18189801. PMID: 34574723; PMCID: PMC8471345. [IF (2020): 3.390]
  16. Negeri ZF, Levis B, Sun Y, He C, Krishnan A, Wu Y, Bhandari PM, Neupane D, Brehaut E, Benedetti A, Thombs BD; Depression Screening Data (DEPRESSD) PHQ Group. Accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 for screening to detect major depression: updated systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis. BMJ. 2021 Oct 5;375:n2183. doi: 10.1136/bmj.n2183. PMID: 34610915; PMCID: PMC8491108. [IF (2020): 39.89]
  17. Pilunthanakul, T., Goh, T.J., Fung, D.S.S. et al. Validity of the patient health questionnaire 9-item in autistic youths: a pilot study. BMC Psychiatry 21, 564 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03556-w [IF (2020): 3.630]
  18. Tan XW, Chan CYW, Lum AWM, Lee ES, Mok YM, Fung DSS, Tor PC. Association of cardiovascular metabolic risk factor measurements with psychiatric readmission among in-hospital patients with severe mental illness: a retrospective study. BMC Psychiatry. 2022 Jan 18;22(1):43. doi: 10.1186/s12888-022-03704-w. PMID: 35042498; PMCID: PMC8767705. [IF (2020): 3.630]
  19. Koh JEW, Ooi CP, Lim-Ashworth NS, Vicnesh J, Tor HT, Lih OS, Tan RS, Acharya UR, Fung DSS. Automated classification of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder using entropy features with ECG signals. Comput Biol Med. 2021 Dec 4;140:105120. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2021.105120. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34896884.
  20. Tan YR, Ooi YP, Ang RP, Goh DH, Kwan C, Fung DS, Sung SC. Feasibility trial of virtual reality exposure therapy for selective mutism. Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2021 Dec 4:13591045211056920. doi: 10.1177/13591045211056920. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34866415.
  21. Harel D, Levis B, Sun Y, Fischer F, Ioannidis JPA, Cuijpers P, Patten SB, Ziegelstein RC, Markham S, Benedetti A, Thombs BD; DEPRESsion Screening Data DEPRESSD PHQ Collaboration. External validation of a shortened screening tool using individual participant data meta-analysis: A case study of the Patient Health Questionnaire-Dep-4. Methods. 2021 Nov 12:S1046-2023(21)00262-0. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2021.11.005. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34780986.
  22. Perkes IE, Eggleston M, Jacobs B, McEvoy P, Fung D, Robertson PG. The making of child and adolescent psychiatrists in Australia and New Zealand. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2021 Nov 12:48674211055654. doi: 10.1177/00048674211055654. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34772296.