Teaching Faculty

Premchand DOMMARAJU
Associate Professor
Director, Master of Science in Applied Gerontology

Office: SHHK-05-39
Telephone: 6592 1520
Email: [email protected] 
Research Areas: Social demography, Families and households, Marriage and Divorce, Ageing and Gerontology, Liveability in Cities.

Shannon ANG Jia Wei
Assistant Professor 
Deputy Director, Centre for the Study of Social Inequality 

Office: SHHK-05-28
Telephone: 65138141
Email: [email protected]
Research Areas: Social Gerontology; Health and Demography; Social Connectedness; Sociology of the Life Course; Quantitative Methodology

Andy HO Hau Yan 
Professor
Head, Psychology
Provost’s Chair in Psychology
Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (Joint Appointment) 

Office: SHHK-04-03
Telephone: 6316 8943
Email: [email protected] 
Research Areas: Thanatology, Gerontology, Positive Psychology, Psychotherapy, Digital Health, Community Empowerment.

Fabian LIM Chin Leong
Director (Academic Affairs)
PaCE Senior Lecturer, Centre for Professional and Continuing Education
Senior Lecturer, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

Office: -
Telephone: -
Email: [email protected]
Research Areas: Nutrition, Metabolism and Health, Ageing, Exercise Physiology, Exercise Medicine, Heat Injury, Thermoregulation, Heat Stroke, Human Performance, Occupational Safety and Performance

Sabrina LUK 
Assistant Professor

Office: SHHK-06-08
Telephone: 6904 7122 
Email: [email protected]
Research Areas: Ageing and Healthcare Reforms, E-Government and Governance, Public Policy Analysis, China Studies.

Dr Kumaran Rajaram
Senior Lecturer, College of Business (Nanyang Business School)

Office: -
Telephone: -
Email: [email protected]
Research Areas: Business and Management, Cultural Intelligence, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Curriculum Design and Assessment, Education and Pedagogy, Educational Management and Leadership, Teacher Education, Brain Machine Interface, Artificial and Augmented Intelligence

Akshar SAXENA
Assistant Professor

Office: SHHK-04-81
Telephone: 6790 6736
Email: [email protected]
Research Areas: Health economics; economics of aging; applied demography; non-communicable diseases; applied econometrics; impact evaluation; health sector reform, pensions and retirement.

Navin Kumar Verma
Assistant Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

Office: -
Telephone: -
Email: [email protected]
Research Areas: Skin Diseases and Wound Repair, Cancer Research, Microbiology and Immunology, T Lymphocyte Biology, Immunology

ZHAN Shaohua
Associate Professor
Head, Sociology

Office: SHHK-05-38
Telephone: 6790 4379
Email: [email protected]
Research Areas: Economic Sociology, International Development, China, Migration, Rural Sociology, Food Security, Labour and Labour Movements, Historical Sociology, World-Systems Analysis, Social Inequality, Poverty.

Zhao Yan
Senior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences

Office: -
Telephone: -
Email: [email protected]
Research Areas: Traditional Chinese Medicine

Linda ZHONG
Director, Biomedical Sciences and Chinese Medicine, School of Biological Sciences
Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Associate Professor, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (Courtesy Appointment)

Office: -
Telephone: -
Email: [email protected]
Research Areas: Mental Health, Microbiome Medicine, Neuroscience, Nutrition, Metabolism and Health, Population Health, Ageing, Artificial and Augmented Intelligence, Cancer Research, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Clinical Trial, Disorders of Gut–brain Interaction, Functional Food, Acupuncture

Dr Lee Boon Ooi
Senior Lecturer, National Institute of Education

Dr Lee Boon Ooi obtained his Ph.D. & B.A. from National University of Singapore, M.Sc. from McGill University, Canada, and M.A. from University of Keele, UK. His research interests include relationship between culture and mental health, particularly, cultural psychiatry, indigenous healing systems, culture and psychotherapies, cultural psychopathology, cultural syndromes, health beliefs/illness representations/symptom attributions, and phenomenology of the body.

Asst/P Ong Pei Ling Jennifer Isabelle
Assistant Professor, National Institute of Education

Dr. Isabelle Ong received her Ph.D. from University of North Carolina at Greensboro, M.Sc. from University of North Texas, and M.Ed. from National Institute of Education. Her research interests include Domestic Violence, Expressive Art Therapy, Integrative Treatment Modalities including Yoga and Mindfulness, Multiculturalism, Play Therapy, Religion and Spirituality, Sandtray Therapy, Social Justice and Advocacy, Trauma and Abuse.

Dr Tan Soo Yin
Senior Lecturer, National Institute of Education

Dr Tan Soo Yin obtained her Ph.D. from University Putra Malaysia, B.Ed (Hons) from University Putra Malaysia, and Certificate in Education from Lembah Pantai Teachers' Training College, Kuala Lumpur. Her research interests include Substance-abuse counselling (individual and group), Counselling process, Counsellor self-efficacy and Counselling clinical supervision.

Mr Chern Siang Jye
Assistant Chief Executive Officer
Agency for Integrated Care

Mr Chern holds a Masters of Economics from McGill University, Quebec, Canada and a Bachelors of Economics from the London School of Economics, UK. He currently oversees AIC’s engagement efforts with partners in the Community Care sector. Previously, he oversaw strategy and corporate functions, sector leadership development, grant making and research and data. He also speaks regularly on healthcare and ageing policy, integrated care and community care sector development.

A/Prof Kenny Tan
Chief Executive Officer
St Luke’s ElderCare 

He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of St Luke’s ElderCare (SLEC) in August 2016. Leading in the areas of organisational development, healthcare management and education, he has steered SLEC to sustained growth in corporate strategy and development, operational excellence, service delivery and partnerships alliance. Under his leadership, SLEC’s foundation as a day care and rehabilitation provider has expanded to enrich more lives in the community, providing a full suite of community care services including home care, nursing care, a residential care facility and emerging active ageing hubs.

Dr Michael Tan
Dean, Research & Knowledge Exchange, Research Division
University of the Arts Singapore

Dr Michael Tan's research interest explores art and design practices in relation to health & well-being, care, ageing, and human flourishing. Inspired by assemblage theory, he is interested to explore the role of creative practice in shaping culture of care in various care settings and the wider context of medical/ health humanities and health communication.

Dr Tew Chee Wee
Joint Faculty Member
Geriatric Education and Research Institute (GERI)

Dr Tew is a specialist doctor in Geriatric Medicine, specialising in clinical management of the elderly. Her areas of interest include community geriatrics, long term care, dementia and health professional education. Her current projects include evaluation of a hospital-based community nursing curriculum and development of a curriculum for long term care facility nursing.