Shattered Worlds: Interdisciplinary Research on the Lived Experiences of Stroke

Date: 27 October, Friday | Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Venue: LT4, Gaia, Nanyang Technological University

Speakers: Asst Prof Paul Victor Patinadan, Assoc Prof Andy Ho, Dr Ang Kexin, Mr Shaik Muhammad Amin, Dr Winnie Teo Li-Lian

Moderator: Asst Prof Michelle Chiang

Programme Description

General overview of the ARCH-Peer Study, an interdisciplinary collaboration between psychologists, healthcare professionals and a medical humanities researcher. This is followed by each speaker's sharing of their interdisciplinary research journey to-date, and their views on what the humanities could contribute to the understanding of illness and health.

Speaker Bio

Asst Prof Michelle Chiang	Assistant Professor Michelle Chiang holds the position of Assistant Professor of English and is the coordinator of the Medical Humanities Research Cluster at Nanyang Technological University. Her selected publications include Samuel Beckett's Intuitive Spectator: Me to play (Palgrave, 2018) and "It'll never end, I'll never go": Representation of Caregiving in Samuel Beckett's Endgame and Footfalls (Journal of Medical Humanities, 2023). Beckett led her to explore embodied lives in absolute systems that persistently fail to account for lived experiences. Her literary research intersects with her medical humanities interests in narratives of loss: the loss of physical control, the witnessing of loss, and the experience of dying. She is currently the Principal Investigator of a Ministry of Education (Singapore) funded research project Medical Humanities Approach to the Value of Patient Stories and Narrative Ethics.
Asst Prof Paul Victor Patinadan	Assistant Professor Paul Victor Patinadan holds the position of Assistant Professor with the Psychology Programme at Nanyang Technological University specialising in health research. He holds a concurrent appointment as an Health Professions Educator with the National Healthcare Group and is also an Association for Death Education and Counselling (ADEC) certified Thanatologist. As an interdisciplinary mixed-methods researcher, Assistant Professor Patinadan specialises in psychosocial interventions and therapies, the implementation science of such interventions, holistic education across stakeholders in care-ecosystems, and how the medical humanities can be employed for effective and humanistic pedagogy. He has worked on several projects with a focus on clinical outcomes for various illness trajectories, community and critical health psychology, psychosociospiritual wellbeing for patients and their families, and evaluative research for health organizations. These include investigating the health behaviours of the chronically-ill, understanding the role of dignity for individuals at the end of life, facilitating the grieving process for surviving family, and evaluating the Singaporean National Advance Care Planning Programme. Assistant Professor Patinadan's recent work focuses on how grieving individuals employ their shared experiences with food and eating to facilitate their healing process. To date, Dr Assistant Professor Patinadan has participated in multiple international and local conferences, and has been awarded with a number of honours.
Assoc Prof Andy Ho	Associate Professor Andy Hau Yan Ho, PhD, EdD, MFT is the Head of Psychology, and holds the position of Associate Professor of Psychology and Medicine at Nanyang Technological University. He is also the Immediate Past President of the Association for Death Education and Counseling (ADEC), and Board Director of the prestigious International Work Group on Death Dying and Bereavement (IWGDDB). A social scientist and clinical innovator, he specializes in thanatology, psychosocial gerontology, positive psychology, digital therapeutics, integrative therapies, and community empowerment. He has founded several innovative and internationally acclaimed psycho-socio-spiritual interventions for health promotion, some of which include Mindful-Compassion Art-based Therapy (MCAT) for alleviating caregiver burnout, Family Dignity Intervention (FDI) for advancing holistic palliative care, Narrative e-Writing Intervention (NeW-I) for augmenting paediatrics palliative care, Aspiration and Resilience Through Intergenerational Storytelling and Art-based Narratives (ARTISAN) for addressing loneliness, and Slow Art Plus (SAP) for promoting public mental health. Associate Professor Ho has authored over 130 top-tier publications and presented more than 200 keynote and plenary sessions across the globe, including his recent TEDx Talk on "Art-Based Storytelling: A Powerful Tool for Healing and Sharing". His social and scholarly contributions are recognized with numerous distinctions and awards by academic, professional and government bodies around the world.
Dr Ang Kexin	Dr Ang Kexin joined the Neurology department at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) in 2010. There, she developed a keen interest in improving the lives of patients with serious neurological conditions. She underwent HMDP training at King’s College London and Cicely Saunders Institute in hopes to further Supportive and Palliative care in Neurology in Singapore.
Mr Shaik Muhammad Amin	Mr Shaik Muhammad Amin, BPSY, MSc is a PhD candidate of the Psychology Programme in the School of Social Sciences of Nanyang Technological University. Amin is a mixed methods researcher who has contributed to several research areas and projects. For the field of Alzheimer’s and Dementia, Mr Amin has authored several publications in the areas of neuropsychology and neuroimaging with NUHS’s Memory Ageing and Cognition Centre (MACC). He was also actively involved in the development of a diabetes health coaching programme for older adults with NTU’s Ageing Research Institute for Society and Education (ARISE) and providing research support for community-based organisations with the Strategy, Research and Data Division of the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC). His doctoral thesis focuses on the development and testing of a novel psycho-socio-spiritual health coaching intervention for first-time stroke survivors and family caregivers titled the Aspirational Rehabilitation Coaching for Holistic Health (ARCH) programme. Amin is currently an NTU research scholar and has received other awards and scholarships for his research contributions from international conferences and local community organisations and professional societies.
Dr Winnie Teo Li-Lian	Dr Winnie oversees Education Research in NHG Education. A molecular biologist by training, she started on qualitative health research when she joined NHG and since then, has undertaken research studies focusing on qualitative aspects of leadership and professional development for the healthcare workforce. She is particularly interested in how theories and concepts in the social sciences can be brought to bear in the training of healthcare professionals and healthcare teams, as well as being applied to crisis leadership and organizational resilience. She is also an enthusiastic advocate for role of humanities in health professions education and practice.

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