Kenneth Fung, M.D.

2024 Kun-Po Soo Award Recipient

Lecture Title: Butterfly Kaleidoscope: Reflections on Asian Mental Health    

Dr. Fung is a staff psychiatrist and Clinical Director of the Asian Initiative in Mental Health Program at the Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network. He is Professor and Director of Global Mental Health with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.  His research, teaching, and clinical interests include 
both cultural psychiatry and psychotherapy. He conducts community-based research and projects 
in stigma, resilience, mental health promotion, trauma, caregivers for children with ASD, immigrant 
and refugee mental health, and pandemic response. He is recognized as a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a Fellow of the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science.