Dr Chee Tji Tjian is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with subspecialty interest in neurodevelopmental disorders, emotional dysregulation, and family-systemic approaches to youth mental health.
He trained in the United Kingdom, completing core psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital (South London and Maudsley NHS Trust) and obtaining a Master's in Psychiatric Research (Merit) at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. He went on to complete specialist training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, where he also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Systemic Approaches to working with individuals, families, and organisations.
Dr Chee is Lead of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division at the National University Hospital and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS. He is active in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, and is a member of the Psychiatry Residency Clinical Core Faculty, an examiner and lecturer for the NUS Master of Mental Health and Clinical Psychotherapy (MHMCP), and a CASC Examiner for the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK).
His research interests lie in adolescent emotional dysregulation, neurodevelopmental disorders (ADHD, autism, particularly in twice-exceptional children), and non-suicidal self-injury.
He founded the NUHS Child Mental Health Village, a fortnightly interdisciplinary platform uniting clinicians, allied health professionals, educators, and community partners in the shared care of children and adolescents.
Dr Chee's practice is grounded in one belief: that understanding a child means looking beyond the individual – to the family, the school, and the world they are growing up in.
