Dr Jared Ng Wei Lik

Dr Jared Ng Wei Lik is a psychiatrist who is also the founder and medical director of Connections MindHealth in Novena.

With over 20 years of service across the public and private sectors, Dr Ng has contributed to Singapore’s mental health landscape through leadership in acute psychiatric services and crisis response systems.

Dr Ng provides care for children, adolescents, and adults with various mental health conditions. His clinical work focuses on child and adolescent mental health, ADHD, suicide prevention, and complex mood and anxiety disorders. He also supports young people with anxiety, depression, and developmental disorders.

Dr Ng earned his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and Master of Medicine (Psychiatry) from the National University of Singapore. He later obtained a Master of Public Health from Harvard University with a focus on health and social behaviour. During his time there, he also completed a clinical attachment at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Before entering private practice, Dr Ng served as a military psychiatrist with the Singapore Armed Forces, where he provided psychiatric care to personnel, including those on overseas deployments. His service also included humanitarian and disaster relief missions in Yogyakarta in 2006 and Afghanistan in 2009. He later joined Khoo Teck Puat Hospital as an Associate Consultant in the Department of Psychological Medicine, where he worked in consultation-liaison psychiatry, outpatient care, community psychiatric services, and the Assessment & Shared Care Team (ASCAT) programme.

He subsequently moved to the Institute of Mental Health, where he was consultant in charge of the Child & Adolescent Inpatient Unit before becoming the Founding Chief of the Department of Emergency & Crisis Care. In that role, he developed and managed services including the Crisis Response Team and Crisis Stabilisation Unit.

Other than clinical work, Dr Ng has contributed to education, community service, and community mental health. He has been a faculty member at all three medical schools in Singapore and currently lectures at NTU’s School of Social Sciences. He also speaks and writes regularly on mental health topics. In the community, he sits on the Board of Management for IJ Schools, serves on the board of the Samaritans of Singapore, contributes to fostering efforts with MSF, and volunteers with the Singapore International Foundation, Care Corner Singapore, and MigrantWell Singapore.

Dr Ng is accredited to Thomson Medical Centre.