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Presentation: Cultural Issues in the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders and Depression Among Chinese
Time: Saturday Morning
Purpose: To provide health care professionals with a culturally competent approach towards treating anxiety disorders and depression, especially among the North American Chinese
Objectives:
Describe a cultural competent framework towards the treatment of mental disorders.
Identify common diagnostic challenges of mood and anxiety disorders due to cultural issues.
Formulate treatment plans for mood and anxiety disorders, including psychotherapeutic interventions, taking cultural issues into account.

Current Positions:
Assistant Professor, Culture, Community and Health Studies, University of Toronto
Clinical Director, Asian Initiative in Mental Health, Toronto Western Hospital

Bio:
Dr. Kenneth 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 also Assistant Professor with Culture, Community, and Health Studies Program at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.  He completed a two-year fellowship in Cultural Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and his Master thesis was on alexithymia among Chinese Canadians.  His primary research, teaching, and clinical interests include both cultural psychiatry and psychotherapy.  He is the Block Coordinator of the Cultural Psychiatry Core Seminars for psychiatry residents at the University of Toronto, and is the seminar coordinator and a psychotherapy supervisor in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy at the University Health Network.  He is currently conducting a research study with Dr. Mateusz Zurowski on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for chronic pain patients.  He has been involved in community-based research projects related to immigrant and refugee mental health.  He is psychiatric consultant to the Hong Fook Mental Health Association and is involved in various mental health promotion and education projects in the community.  He also offers consultations at Mon Sheong Scarborough Long-Term Care Centre.  He has been appointed as a member of Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network Mental Health and Addictions Advisory Council.  He is the President of the Federation of Chinese American and Chinese Canadian Medical Societies.