Dr. Chua Sze Ming obtained her medical degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2003 (M.B.B.S) and her Masters of Medicine in Psychiatry at the same university in August 2008. She became a certified psychiatrist in 2011. She has special interests in mood, anxiety disorders and somatic symptom disorders.

Dr. Chua has practised in diverse settings including inpatient, outpatient and community outreach care at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), National University Hospital and Singapore General Hospital. She trained in old age psychiatry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in 2013 on a Ministry of Health Fellowship. She has also served and continues to practise as a visiting psychiatrist in rehabilitative and long term care institutions, serving the elderly sick with psychiatric disorders such as dementia. She served on the Pharmaceutical & Therapeutics Committee as Deputy Chairperson at IMH from 2019 to 2021. She was a trainer for senior nurse clinicians and an examiner for the inaugural batch of National Collaborative Prescribing Programme at NUS.

Dr. Chua joined private practice in 2021. She has served as a psychiatrist in her alma mater NUS’s University Health Centre, attending to the needs of the undergraduate student population from 2021 to 2022. Dr. Chua has wide ranging experience who can see older teens (16 years and above), adults and the elderly. She also works with other medical specialists, counselors and psychologists in the wider community and regularly gives public talks to encourage mental health literacy for all.