Dr CHAN Wing Yan, Joey
Associate Professor (Clinical)
Associate Professor (Clinical)
陳詠欣醫生
MBChB, FHKCPsy, FHKAM(Psych)
Email: joeywychan@cuhk.edu.hk
ORCID: 0000-0002-2692-2666
OTHER POSITIONS
- Honorary Secretary, The Hong Kong Society of Sleep Medicine
EXPERTISE / AREA OF INTEREST:
- Circadian rhythm and neuropsychiatric disorders
- Clinical application of chronotherapeutic treatments
- Circadian biomarkers
- Sleep disorders and psychiatric illness
AWARDS
- Distinguished Young Fellow, the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, 2022
CURRENT PROJECTS:
- Randomized placebo- and active-controlled trial for assessing the efficacy of bright light therapy for sleep and mood symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Funded by Health and Medical Research Fund –Food and Health Bureau. Capacity: PI. Study duration: 1/8/2022-31/7/2025
- A randomized placebo-controlled trial for adjunctive bright light therapy in patients with bipolar depression and eveningness. Funded by General Research Fund, Research Grants Council. Capacity: PI. Study duration: 1/1/2022 – 31/12/2023
- Melanopsin-mediated pupillary response in patients with rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder. Funded by Direct Grant, CUHK. Capacity: PI. Study duration: 10/6/2022 – 9/12/2023
- Efficacy of digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) with artificial intelligence chatbot for youth with insomnia: An assessor-blind, randomized controlled trial. Funded by General Research Fund, Research Grants Council. Capacity: Co-I. Study duration: 01/01/2024 – 30/06/2026
- Effects of cognitive behavioural therapy and bright light therapy in youth with unipolar depression and evening chronotype: An assessor-blind, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial. Funded by General Research Fund, Research Grants Council. Capacity: Co-I. Study duration: 1/1/2023 – 30/6/2025.
- Neuropsychiatric ‘long-COVID’ in adult patients. Funded by Collaborative Research Grant, Research Grants Council, Capacity: Co-I. Study duration: 10/5/2022-9/5/2024
- Progression of prodromal markers of α-synucleinopathy neurodegeneration in the first-degree relatives of patients with REM sleep behavior disorder: a 7-year prospective study. Funded by Health and Medical Research Fund –Food and Health Bureau. Capacity: Co-I. Study duration: 1/11/2022-31/10/2024
- Digital mental health in depression – deep phenotyping and monitoring. Funded by Health and Medical Research Fund –Food and Health Bureau. Capacity: Co-I. Study duration: 4/7/2022-3/7/2024.
- Prevention of insomnia in at-risk youth: A randomised controlled trial comparing cognitive behavioral prevention programme for insomnia with active control condition. Funded by General Research Fund, Research Grants Council. Capacity: Co-I. Study duration: 1/7/2021 – 31/12/2023.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- Tang JH, Wing YK, Chan JWY*, Lo RSK.
Bright Light Therapy for Cancer-related Fatigue in a Palliative Care Unit: A Feasibility Study.
J Pain Symptom Manage.2023;65(3):e237-e40. - Feng H, Yang L, Liang YY, Ai S, Liu Y, Liu Y, Jin X, Lei B, Wang J, Zheng N, Chen X, Chan JWY, Sum RKW, Chan NY, Tan X, Benedict C, Wing YK, Zhang J.
Associations of timing of physical activity with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a prospective cohort study.
Nat Commun. 2023;14(1):930. - Chau SWH, Liu Y, Zhang J, Leung E, Chen S, Ho CL, Chan JWY, Tsang CC, Li SX, Huang B, Lam SP, Mok VC, Wing YK.
Clinical and neuroimaging markers of neurodegeneration in first-degree relatives of patients with REM sleep behavior disorder with and without isolated rapid eye movement sleep without atonia: A case-control clinical and dopamine PET study.
Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2023;107:105271. - Huang B, Chau SWH, Liu Y, Chan JWY, Wang J, Ma SL, Zhang J, Chan PKS, Yeoh YK, Chen Z, Zhou L, Wong SH, Mok VCT, To KF, Lai HM, Ng S, Trenkwalder C, Chan FKL, Wing YK.
Gut microbiome dysbiosis across early Parkinson’s disease, REM sleep behavior disorder and their first-degree relatives.
Nat Commun. 2023 May 2;14(1):2501. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-38248-4. - Chan JWY*, Chan NY, Li SX, Lam SP, Chau SWH, Liu Y, et al.
Change in circadian preference predicts sustained treatment outcomes in patients with unipolar depression and evening preference.
J Clin Sleep Med. 2022;18(2):523-31. - Chan JWY*, Li SX, Chau SWH, Chan NY, Zhang J, Wing YK.
Prediction of Dropout in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Adjunctive Light Treatment in Patients with Non-Seasonal Depression and Evening Chronotype.
Clocks & Sleep. 2022;4(3):346-57. - Chan JWY, Lam SP, Li SX, Chau SW, Chan SY, Chan NY, et al.
Adjunctive bright light treatment with gradual advance in unipolar major depressive disorder with evening chronotype – A randomized controlled trial.
Psychol Med. 2022;52(8):1448-57. - Chan JWY, Lam SP, Li SX, Yu MW, Chan NY, Zhang J, et al.
Eveningness and insomnia: independent risk factors of nonremission in major depressive disorder.
Sleep. 2014;37(5):911-7.
