Summary

Affiliation
✅ Research Fellow and Postgraduate Tutor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (2021 - Present)
✅ Co-Founder, Non-Executive Director, GeroPsych Consultants Pte Ltd (2017 – present)
✅ Adjunct Lecturer, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore (2020 – present)

Academic/Professional Qualifications
✅ PhD in Psychology (2020), NTU Singapore
✅ Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (2018), SkillsFuture Singapore
✅ Postgraduate Diploma of Clinical Psychology (2010), James Cook University Australia,
Singapore (JCUS)
✅ Bachelor of Social Sciences (2007), National University of Singapore (NUS)

Research and Practice Areas
✅ Long-term health and social care services utilization
✅ Caregiver psychosocial experiences
✅ Geropsychological counselling
✅ Geropsychological research tools

Teaching/Training Areas
✅ Geropsychology
✅ Integrated health and social care
✅ Informal caregiving

Career History
✅ Consultant Geropsychologist, GeroPsych Consultants Pte Ltd (2017 – 2021)
✅ Head, Research and Evaluation Function, Agency for Integrated Care Pte Ltd (AIC), Singapore (2014 – 2015)
✅ Senior Research Analyst, Knowledge Management Division, AIC, Singapore (2013 – 2015)
✅ Research Analyst, Health Information and Innovation Division, AIC, Singapore (2011 – 2013)
✅ Adjunct Lecturer in Psychology, Kaplan Asia Pacific Management Institute, Singapore (2009 – 2010)
✅ Associate Lecturer in Psychology, JCUS (2008 – 2009)
✅ Psychologist, Clinical (Eldercare) Services Department, Shan You Counselling Centre, Singapore (2007 – 2008)

Membership of Professional Bodies
✅ Sigma Xi
✅ Gerontology Society of Singapore
✅ Gerontological Society of America

Selected Publications (* denotes corresponding author)
✅ Chong, W. F.*, Chua, J., Leong, L. Z., Smith, H. E., Yu, T. (2023). Proactive career management for Singapore female health professionals: A scoping review protocol. BMJ Open, 13(2), e062716. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062716
✅ Chong, W. F. W.*, Ng, L. H., Ho, R. M-H., Koh, G. C. H., Hoenig, H., Matchar, D. B., Yap, P.,
Venketasubramanian, N., Tan, K. B., Chou, N., Menon, E., Chang, H. M., De Silva, D. A., Lee, K. E., Tan, B. Y., Young, S. H. Y., Ng, Y. S., Tu, T. M., Ang, Y. H., Yeo, T. T., Merchant, R. A., Kong, K. H., Singh, R., Ng, Y. L., Cheong, A. (2021). Stroke rehabilitation use and caregiver psychosocial health profiles in Singapore: A latent profile transition analysis. Journal of American Medical Directors Association, 22(11), 2350-2357.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2021.02.036
✅ Chong, W. F. W., Gu, D. Critical gerontology. (2021). In D. Gu M. Dupre. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_951-2
✅ Chong, W.F.W. (2020). Formal long-term care: informal caregivers’ subjective well-being and service utilization. International Journal of Integrated Care, 20(3):11. http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.5565

Selected Honours and Awards (Post-graduate)
✅ Overseas Conference Award, Conference and Overseas Research Attachment Fund, NTU Singapore (6 – 8 November 2017)
✅ Overseas Workshop Participation Award at Academic Writing Workshop on Population Ageing Research in ASEAN, Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Thailand (13 September 2017)
✅ Best Presenter at the Inaugural Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Students Research Colloquium, NTU Singapore (21 February 2015)
✅ Oral Presentation (Merit) Award at the 6th Singapore Public Health Occupational Medicine Conference, College of Public Health Occupational Medicine Conference, Singapore (24 – 26 August 2011)
✅ University Scholar, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (27 June 2007)

Active Projects
✅ Transnational research on the impact of Covid19 on older adults,
✅ Psychosocial training of informal caregivers

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