Dr Kim Sung Wan

Dr Kim Sung-Wan research and clinical work focuses on the early identification and treatment of youths and young adults with severe mental illness. His areas of expertise include neurobiology, psychosocial intervention, community mental health service, as well as psychopharmacology for patients with schizophrenia. He has played an important role in mental health service reform in South Korea. He had been a visiting professor at Orygen Youth Health, Melbourne, Australia (2013). He subsequently founded Mindlink, the first community-based, youth-specific, early intervention center in Korea.

Dr Kim has published over 470 peer-reviewed psychiatric journals, including 340 in Science Citation Index (SCI) journals. He also serves as the Associate Editor for Early Intervention in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience and as a guest Editor for Frontiers in Psychiatry. He is the Vice President of the Asia Pacific region in the IEPA.