Dr Chua Hong Choon is Chief Executive Officer of Khoo Teck Puat Hospital and Yishun Health, and Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer (Strategy & Transformation) of the National Healthcare Group (NHG) in Singapore. He was the former Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) until 2021.

A psychiatrist by training, Dr Chua is also the Chairman of the national Residency Advisory Committee (RAC) for Psychiatry, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Yong Loo Lin Medical School and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.

Dr Chua has keen interests in the fields of public health, psychiatric epidemiology, depression, and quality & safety in health care. He was the first Patient Safety Officer at the Institute of Mental Health, where he developed programmes and initiatives to improve clinical quality and safeguard patient safety in mental healthcare.