Dr. CHAN Sau Man, Sandra
Associate Professor (Clinical)
Associate Professor (Clinical)
陳秀雯醫生
MBChB(CUHK), FRCPsych(UK), FHKAM(Psychiatry), FHKCPsych
Fax: (852) 2667-5464
Email: schan@cuhk.edu.hk
ORCID: 0000-0002-5916-139X
OTHER POSITIONS:
- Assistant Dean (Student support), Faculty of Medicine, CUHK (2016- )
- Chairman, Graduate School Disciplinary Committee, CUHK (2020- )
- Chairman, Special Interest Group in Clinical Neuroscience, The Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists
- Programme Director, Master of Science/Post-graduate Diploma in Mental Health
- Project Director, Multi-professional Case-management program for case management, Hospital Authority
- Committee Member, Committee on Complaints against Private Health Care Facilities, Department of Health (2021- )
- Chairman and convener of the DEC Sub-commitee for MMR, Ex-CO member, The Mental Health Association of Hong Kong (2017- )
AWARDS
- Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists’ Research Award: Best original research on Mood Disorder 2006 “Elderly Suicide and 2003 SARS Epidemic”
- Faculty Education Award 2021
TRAINING
- Specialists in Psychiatry with the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists (Fellowship in 2005) and The Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK) (Membership in 2001/ Fellowship in 2015)
- National Institute of Health’s ICOHRTA Fellowship ( Suicide prevention and research) with University of Rochester, USA in 2002-03
- Visiting Fellowship at Martinos Centre for Biomedical Imaging(2012)/Berenson-Allen Center for Non Invasive Brain Stimulation, Harvard Medical School (2013)
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Functional brain mapping of mood disorders and neurodevelopmental disorders
- Network-informed transcranial magnetic stimulation for psychiatric disorders
- Neuromodulation for cognitive remediation in childhood neurodevelopmental disorders
- Treatment resistant depression
- Digital mental health platform
- Resilience and developmental mental health
- Suicide prevention
CURRENT PROJECTS
- Phase I of the Commissioned Study on Mental Health Survey: Hong Kong Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Epidemiologic Survey: Age 6 to 17
(Co-I, External Grant: FHB-MHS-P1(Part 1)-CUHK) - Relationship between social motivation tendency, schizophrenia symptoms, and social functioning
(Co-I, External Grant: Research Grant Council/ GRF 14605020) - Double-blind randomized controlled trial with t-DCS on pre-pubertal Autism Spectrum Disorder comorbid with ADHD
(Project supervisor) - Microbiome signature in ASD- case-controlled study in pre-pubertal children
(Project supervisor)
GRANTS RECEIVED (with year received):
- “Pre-treatment biomarker for clinical response to neuronavigated repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in the acute phase treatment of refractory major depressive episode- role of intrinsic functional connectivity”
[Research Grants Council – General Research Fund during 2015 – 2017, as PI] - “Functional MRI Study -Neural Substrate of Vulnerability to Recurrence in Major Depressive Disorders”
[Research Grants Council – General Research Fund during 2014 – 2016, as PI] - “Is GABA-deficit the Link between Functional Dyspepsia and Major Depressive Disorder?”
[Research Grants Council – General Research Fund during 2016 – 2017, as Co-I] - “Clinical Efficacy of Neuro-navigated repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in the management of Depression in Major Neurocognitive Disorders– a single blind randomized control trial”
[Research Grants Council – General Research Fund during 2016 – 2018, as Co-I] - “A Population-based Telephone Survey to Evaluate the Changes in Mental Health Status of Hong Kong Community after a 3-year Mental Health Promotion Program”
[Department of Health, Hong Kong SAR during 2015 – 2018, as Co-I] - “Randomized Sham-controlled Trial of Augmentative Neuro-navigated Right-dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Low-frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Antidepressant Non-responding Bipolar Depression”
[Food and Health Bureau – Health and Medical Research Fund during 2015 – 2018, as Co-I] - “Would transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) enhance the effects of working memory training in older adults with mild neurocognitive disorder due to Alzheimer’s disease (AD)?”
[Research Grants Council – General Research Fund during 2015 – 2017, as Co-I] - “Three Year Incidence and Progression of Common Mental Disorders (CMD) in Chinese Adult Population of Hong Kong”
[Food and Health Bureau – Commissioned Research on Mental Health Policy and Services during 2014 – 2016, as Co-I]
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- Wong OWH, Lam AMW, Lai KYC, Ma SL, Hung SF, Chan SSM, Wong S, Leung PWL.
An elevated anxiety level amongprepubertal autistic boys with non-treatment-seeking functional gastrointestinal disorders: A case–control study.
Autism Res. 2021 Oct;14(10):2131-2142. - Hopman HJ, Chan SSM, Chu CWW, Lu H, Tse CY, Chau SWH, Lam LCW, Mak ADP, Neggers SFW.
Personalized prediction of transcranial magnetic stimulation clinical response in patients with treatment refractory depression using neuroimaging biomarkers and machine learning.
J Affect Disord. 2021 Jul 1;290:261-271. - Hopman HJ, Choy HY, Ho WS, Lu H, Wong WH, Chan SSM.
The effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation antidepressant response on cold cognition: a single-arm prospective longitudinal study.
Neuropsychiatric Disease andTreatment 2021; 17: 1-12. - So SHW, Chan GHK, Wong CKW, Ching EWK, Lee, SSW, Wong BCW, Chen Z, Sun X, Chung, LKH, Hung AY, Wong JOY,Chan SSM.
A randomized controlled trial of metacognitive training for psychosis, depression and belief flexibility.
Journal of Affective Disorders 2020; 279(15): 388-39. - Chan SSM, Chiu FHK, Lam LCW, Wong SMC, Conwell Y.
A multi-dimensional risk factor model for suicide attempts in later life.
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 2014; 10: 1807-17. - Chan SSM, Leung PY, Tsoh J, Li SW, Yu CS, Yu KK, Poon TK, Pan PC, Chan WC, Conwell Y, Lam LCW, Chiu HFK.
Outcomes of a two-tiered multi-faceted elderly suicide prevention program in a Hong Kong Chinese Community.
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2011;19: 185-96. - Liu J, Ma H, He YL, Xie B, Xu YF, Tang HY, Li M, Hao W, Wang XD, Zhang MY, Ng CH, Goding M, Fraser J, Herrman H, Chiu HFK, Chan SSM, Chiu E, Yu X.
Mental health system in China: history, recent service reform and future challenges.
World Psychiatry 2011; 10 (3): 210-16. - Chang WC, Pang SLK, Chung DWS, Chan SSM.
Five-year stability of ICD-10 diagnoses among Chinese patients presented with first-episode psychosis in Hong Kong.
Schizophrenia Research 2009; 115: 351-57. - Chan SSM, Lyness JM, Yeates C.
Do Cerebrovascular Risk Factors Confer Risk for Suicide in Later Life? A Case-control Study.
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2007; 15: 541-44 - Chan SSM, Chiu HFK, Lam LCW, Leung VPY.
Elderly Suicide and the 2003 SARS epidemic in Hong Kong SAR.
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2006; 21:113-18.
