Department of Psychiatry
About Us
The Department of Psychiatry is a research-intensive hub that trains psychiatrists and mental health professionals in applying the latest scientific advances in neuroscience, diagnostic methods, and therapeutic interventions to treat patients in a holistic manner. The complexity, high prevalence, and heavy health care burden of mental health problems require multidisciplinary probes into the understanding of their epidemiology, aetiology, mechanisms, and intervention. We work closely with Hospital Authority in providing comprehensive psychiatric clinical services in the cluster hospitals of New Territories East Cluster serving a population of more than 1.2 million.
Focused on seeking insightful and cutting-edge translational solutions to problems affecting our communities, our research programmes investigate the multidisciplinary and multidimensional links between brain dysfunctions and behaviour. Topics of interest include the biopsychosocial determinants of mental disorders, developmental perspectives of mental disorders, sleep and circadian medicine, the neuropsychiatric and genetic aspects of neurodegenerative disorders.
Department Head
Prof. WING Yun Kwok, Professor (Clinical) & Chairman;
Choh-Ming Li Professor of Psychiatry.
(Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese University Of Hong Kong)
Department Address
The Chinese University of Hong Kong G/F Multicentre,
Tai Po Hospital, Tai Po, Hong Kong