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Dr Sin Gwen Li

​MBBS, MMed (Psychiatry)

Specialty: Psychiatry

Clinical Interests

Old Age Psychiatry

About Doctor

Dr Sin Gwen Li received her undergraduate medical training and post-graduate training in Singapore. She was awarded the MBBS and MMed (Psychiatry) by the National University of Singapore. Dr Sin has a special interest in the mental health of the elderly. She has completed a 1-year Clinical Fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

Dr Sin participates in the training of medical undergraduates from NUS Medical School and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical school, as well as postgraduates who are interested in psychiatry.

Languages Spoken

  • English

Education and Training

  • ​Faculty Member, National Healthcare Group (NHG) Psychiatry Residency Programme
  • Physician Faculty Member, SingHealth Family Medicine Residency Programme
  • MRCPsych Board of Examiners

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

  • Clinical Senior Lecturer, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
  • ​Project Director SGH Psychogeriatric Memory Clinic
  • Department Quality Officer, Department of Psychiatry
  • Member, Clinical Performance Improve Committee, Division of Medicine, SGH

Awards

  • ​Singapore Health Quality Service Award – Gold 2017
  • Service with a Heart Award 2015
  • SGH Long service award 2012
  • SingHealth Health Manpower Development Plan Award 2012  

Publications

  • Training eldercare workers in mental health care. GL Sin, D Yeo, HJ Koh, J Lee, LL Ng. Singapore Medical Journal 2017, 1-12 doi: 10.11622/smedj.2017052
  • Outcomes of cognitive fluctuations in dementia patients. GL Sin, B Mainland, J Lee, T Ornstein, K Shulman, N Herrmann. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society June 2015; 63 (6): 1258-1259.
  • The PSS-SR as a screening tool for PTSD in first-episode psychosis patients. GL Sin, E Abdin, J Lee. Early Intervention in Psychiatry 28 May 2012; 6 (2) :191-4.
  • The Community Psychogeriatric Programme in Singapore: A pilot project in the East. GL Sin, LL Ng. Singapore Medical Journal 2011; 52(7) : 463
  • Prevalence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in First Episode Psychosis. GL Sin, E Abdin, J Lee, LY Poon, S Verma, SA Chong. Early Intervention in Psychiatry 4(4): 299-304, November 2010.
  • Cognitive and psychotic symptoms in idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome. GL Sin, TS Lee. Acta Neuropsychiatrica. 20(1):53-54, February 2008