Dr Leong Jern Yi Joseph

Dr Leong Jern-Yi Joseph started work at the Institute of Mental Health since 2000 and earned his Master in Medicine (Psychiatry) in 2003. He studied Psycho-Social Rehabilitation at UCLA with Distinguish Professor of Psychiatry Robert Paul Liberman in 2009. He won the Best Scientific Poster Award for his “Personal Effectiveness for Successful Living” poster at the World Association for Psycho-Social Rehabilitation Conference in Milan, Italy in 2012.

He was Deputy Program Director for the Community Mental Health Team as well as he served as Deputy Chief of Community Psychiatry at the Institute of Mental Health and wrote a paper on “Social inclusion: the Singapore story in community mental health development, psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery” in 2015.

He is current President of the Association for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Singapore. He has been invited as a speaker both regional and internationally. He was one of the keynote speakers at the Refocus on Recovery Conference in 2019 in Nottingham, England and a speaker for the International Mental Health Virtual Conference hosted by Thailand and the UK government in 2020-2021 on mental health resilience.

Topic: Social Inclusion: The Singapore Story in Community Mental Health Development, Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Recovery
Date: 20 November 2024, Wednesday
Time: 11.00 AM
Breakout Session: Track 5 – Rehabilitation