Dr. LEE Ting Chun, Allen,
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Assistant Professor (Clinical)
李廷俊醫生
MBChB, FHKCPsych, FHKAM(Psychiatry)
Fax: (852) 2667-5464
Email: allenlee@cuhk.edu.hk
ORCID: 0000-0003-4196-5442
OTHER POSITIONS:
- Honorary Associate Consultant, New Territories East Cluster, Hospital Authority
- Vice President, The Chinese Dementia Research Association
- Council member, Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists
- Education Committee member, Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists
- Publications Committee member, Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists
- Editorial Board member, East Asian Archives of Psychiatry (EAAP)
AWARDS:
- Distinguished Young Fellow, awarded by the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine on 16 November 2017
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Epidemiology, prevention, early detection, and intervention for neurocognitive disorders
- Determinants of healthy aging
- Associations among physical, mental, and cognitive health
CURRENT PROJECTS:
- Can increasing participation in habitual intellectual activities enhance functional connectivity of default mode network in community-living Chinese adults with subjective cognitive decline? A randomized controlled trial. (Funded by Early Career Scheme, RGC 2019/2020. Capacity: PI. Ref. number: 24114519. Funding: $1,190,840. Study duration: 1/1/2020-31/12/2021)
- Health determinants for late onset dementia and its associated mortality in Hong Kong Chinese older adults. (Funded by HMRF Commissioned Study 2018. Ref. number: CFS-CUHK3. Capacity: Co-PI. PI: Linda Lam, Dept of Psychiatry, CUHK. Funding: $7,492,300. Study duration: 1/7/2019-30/6/2022)
- Structured frontal lobe based cognitive stimulation to older adults with subjective cognitive decline and comorbid depressive symptoms. (Funded by CUHK Direct Grant for Research 2018/2019. Ref. number: 2018.076. Capacity: PI. Funding: $149,947. Study duration: 30/6/2019-29/6/2020)
- A 9-year follow-up of the Hong Kong Mental Morbidity Survey (HKMMS) on Chinese adults with depressive and anxiety symptoms. (Funded by HMRF Commissioned Study 2018. Ref number: CFS-CUHK4.Capacity: Co-I. PI: Professor Linda Lam, Department of Psychiatry, CUHK. Funding: $7,767,730. Study duration:1/7/2019-31/12/2023)
- The Hong Kong Mental Morbidity Survey for Older People – MMSOP (Funded by HMRF Commissioned Study 2018. Ref. number: MHS-P1(Part 3)-CUHK. Capacity: Co-I. PI: Professor Linda Lam, Department of Psychiatry, CUHK. Funding: $14,996,125. Study duration: 1/1/2019-30/6/2021)
- Combining mind-body physical exercise, cognitive training, and nurse-led risk factor modification to enhance cognition among older adults with mild cognitive impairment: a randomized controlled trial (Funded by HMRF 2017. Ref. number: 16170421. Capacity: Co-I. PI: Professor Samuel Wong, School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK. Funding: $1,499,589. Study duration: 16/9/2019-15/9/2022)
- The role of big data in addressing the determinants of non-communicable diseases in the ageing era – collaboration between CUHK and Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) partners
- Machine learning technologies for advancing digital biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease. (Funded by the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation. Ref. number: GDADB-201906-2019049. Capacity: Co-PI. PI: Professor Guoliang Xing, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK. Funding: USD$641,204. Study duration: 1/7/2020-30/6/2023)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- Lee ATC, Chiu HFK.
Inpatient Stay for Older Adults: A Double-edged Sword for Cognition?
International Psychogeriatrics. 2021 Aug 16:1-5. - Lee ATC, Cheng GWH, Lin C, Wong BHC, Lam LCW.
Do people with mental health problems have lower adherence to precautionary measures in COVID-19 pandemic? A cross-sectional observational study in Hong Kong.
BMJ Open. 2021 Aug 12;11(8):e046658. - Lam LCW, Lee ATC.
Is cognitive screening useful for long-term prediction of incident dementia?
The Lancet Healthy Longevity. 2021 July 1;2(7):e387-e388. - Vu TA, Fenwick EK, Gan ATL, Man REK, Tan BKJ, Gupta P, Ho KC, Reyes-Ortiz CA, Trompet S, Gussekloo J, O’Brien JM, Mueller-Schotte S, Wong TY, Tham YC, Cheng CY, Lee ATC, Rait G, Swenor BK, Varadaraj V, Brenowitz WD, Medeiros FA, Naël V, Narasimhalu K, Chen CLH, Lamoureux EL.
The Bidirectional Relationship between Vision and Cognition: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Ophthalmology. 2021 Jul;128(7):981-992. - Zee B, Wong Y, Lee J, Fan Y, Zeng J, Lam B, Wong A, Shi L, Lee ATC, Kwok C, Lai M, Mok V, Lau A.
Machine-learning method for localization of cerebral white matter hyperintensities in healthy adults based on retinal images.
Brain Communications. 2021 June;3(3):fcab124. - Lee ATC, Fung AWT, Richards M, Chan WC, Chiu HFK, Lee RSY, Lam LCW.
Risk of incident dementia varies with different onset and courses of depression.
Journal of Affective Disorders. 2021 Mar 1;282:915-920. - Chan WC, Lee ATC, Lam LCW.
Exercise for the prevention and treatment of neurocognitive disorders: new evidence and clinical recommendations.
Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 2021 Mar 1;34(2):136-141. - Lee ATC, Mo FYM, Lam LCW.
Higher psychogeriatric admissions in COVID-19 than in severe acute respiratory syndrome.
International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2020 Dec;35(12):1449-1457. - Mok VCT, Pendlebury S, Wong A, Alladi S, Au L, Bath PM, Biessels GJ, Chen C, Cordonnier C, Dichgans M, Dominguez J, Gorelick PB, Kim S, Kwok T, Greenberg SM, Jia J, Kalaria R, Kivipelto M, Naegandran K, Lam LCW, Lam BYK, Lee ATC, Markus HS, O’Brien J, Pai MC, Pantoni L, Sachdev P, Skoog I, Smith EE, Srikanth V, Suh GH, Wardlaw J, Ko H, Black SE, Scheltens P.
Tackling challenges in care of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias amid the COVID-19 pandemic, now and in the future.
Alzheimer’s & Dementia. 2020 Nov;16(11):1571-1581. - Lee ATC, Richards M, Chan WC, Chiu HFK, Lee RSY, Lam LCW.
Higher dementia incidence in older adults with poor visual acuity.
The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. 2020 Oct 15;75(11):2162-2168.
