Our Director

Director

MBBS (HKU), FHKAM(Psychiatry), FHKCPsych
MA in Philosophy (CUHK)
Master of Buddhist Studies (HKU)

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Hong Kong
Honorary Associate Consultant, Queen Mary Hospital
Chairman, Research Committee, The Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists
Associate Editor-in-chief, East Asian Archives of Psychiatry
Member of HKSAR Mental Health Review Tribunal
Panel member, Human Organ Transplant Board, HKSAR

Dr. Calvin Cheng joined the department in November 2017 as a clinical assistant professor. He is also the honorary associate consultant of psychogeriatric services in the Hong Kong West Cluster. Before joining the department, he obtained Fellowship of the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists in 2014. He was the visiting fellow and trained as a functional MRI specialist under Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging in the Massachusetts General Hospital in same year. He also attended training of transcranial magnetic and electrical stimulation in Harvard Medical School, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen and University Medical Center Utrecht from 2014 to 2016. His current research interests reside in pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for geriatric depression, structural and functional brain mapping, non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation for mood disorder and cognitive impairment in elderly. He obtained Distinguished Young Fellow Award given by the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine in 2018.