Dr Lee Huei Yen

​Dr. Lee Huei Yen graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (MBBCh), and subsequently returned to Singapore to pursue her postgraduate training in Psychiatry. She was awarded the MMed (Psychiatry) by the National University of Singapore (NUS).

She joined SGH in 2004 as an associate consultant.  She was awarded the SGH Fellowship (Eating Disorders) and worked with Professor James Lock at the Eating Disorder Unit, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Stanford University from 2005-2006. She was the director of the Eating Disorder Programme at SGH from 2008-2015, then she became the Head of Psychiatry from 2016 to 2022.

She is an adjunct assistant professor with both the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and the Duke-NUS Medical School. She is also part of the core clinical faculty of the National Healthcare Group Psychiatry residency programme.

Dr Lee sees most general psychiatry cases and has a special interest in eating disorders.

• Adjunct Assistant Professor, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School
• Core Clinical Faculty, NHG Psychiatry Residency Programme
• National University of Singapore – MMed (Psychiatry)
• Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland - MBBCh

• ​SGH Campus Emergency Planning committee member
• SGH Campus Disease Outbreak Taskforce committee member

• SingHealth 20-year Long Service Award
• SGH service with a Heart award Jan-Mar 2015
• Singapore Health Quality Service award (Gold) 2013

1. ​Late- vs. early-onset anorexia nervosa in Asia: Nosological, aetiological, and therapeutic implications
   Tan Shian Ming, Victor Kwok Kah Foo, Kelly Ann Zainal, Lee Huei Yen
2. International Journal of Mental Health 2017 Vol 46 No.3 227-242
   The clinical profile of patients with anorexia nervosa in Singapore: a follow-up descriptive study
   Kuek A, Utpala A, Lee HY
   Singapore Med J. 2015 Jun; 56(6):324-328
3. Cultural andCultural and ethical issues in the treatment of eating disorders in Singapore
   Jacinta O.A. Tan, Syahirah A. Karim, Huei Yen Lee, Yen Li Goh, Ee Lian Lee
   Asian Bioethics Review, Vol 5, No 1 (2013)
   Case report: When healthy eating becomes unhealthy – atypical eating disorder in a male patient.
   Lee HY
4. ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 12(2):  Jul – Dec 2011
   Suicide Trend in Singapore from 2005-2009
   Khaw D, Ng BY, Lee TS, Lee HY
5. ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry (Jul-Dec 2011)
   Electroconvulsive therapy for catatonia in neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythromatosus
   Fam J, Lee TS, Lee HY, Ng BY
   J ECT. 2010 Jun; 26(2):143-4
6. The addition of a parent and clinician component to the eating disorder examination for children and adolescents
   Couturier J, Lock J, Forsberg S, Vanderheyden D, Lee HY
   Int J Eat Disord. 2007 Jul; 40(5):472-5
7. Anorexia Nervosa in Asian Americans: Do they differ from their non-Asian peers
   Lee HY, Lock J
   Int J Eat Disord. 2007 Apr; 40 (3): 227-31
8. Anorexia Nervosa in Singapore: An eight-year retrospective study
   Lee HY, Lee EL, Pathy P, Chan YH
   Singapore Med J. 2005 Jun; 46(6):275-81