Tan Shian Ming
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Dr Tan Shian Ming

Dr Tan Shian Ming

​MBBS

Senior Consultant

Sengkang General Hospital

Specialty: Psychiatry

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
Geriatric Psychiatry, Late Life Anxiety, Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA), Sleep, Snoring.

Clinical Appointments

  • Senior Consultant SingHealth Duke-NUS Sleep Centre
  • Senior Consultant Department of Psychiatry Sengkang General HospitalSengkang General Hospital

Academic Appointments

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor

Profile

​Dr. Tan is currently a consultant psychiatrist. His special interests include mood disorders, sleep disorders and dementia.

Education

  • ​MMED (Psychiatry) 2013
  • MBBS (2003

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

  • ​Adjunct Asst Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School

Awards

Research Interests

Publications

  1. ​“The Men Do Get It: Eating Disorders In Males – A Singapore Perspective” abstract published in a supplement of the 10th London International Eating Disorders Conference 2011
  2. Neuropsychiatric Complications In Liver Transplant Patients In A Tertiary Hospital In Singapore; ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 16 (1), January - June 2015
  3. Validation Of The Emotion Thermometers And Hospital Anxiety And Depression Scales In Singapore: Screening Cancer Patients For Distress, Anxiety And Depression; Asia-Pacific Journal Of Clinical Oncology 2014, doi: 10.1111/ajco.12180
  4. Depression And Anxiety In Cancer Patients In A Tertiary General Hospital In Singapore; Asian Journal of Psychiatry 2014 Apr; 8:33-7.
  5. Comprehensive psychological intervention to improve outcome in functional gastrointestinal disorder: A cohort study, Singapore Med J 2015; 56(7): 385-392
  6. Comorbid depression in bipolar disorder? eLetter, British Journal of Psychiatry. http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/207/1/46
  7. Pitfalls with the unquestioning use of statistics. Letter. J Clin Psychiatry. 2016 Aug;77(8):e1005. doi: 10.4088/JCP.16lr10666.
  8. Pramipexole in the Treatment of REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder: A Critical Review. Psychiatry Research. DOI information: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.06.055
  9. Network meta-analyses and treatment recommendations for obsessive compulsive disorder. Letter. Lancet Psychiatry. 2016 Oct;3(10):920-921. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30281-4

Research Trials