Dr. Kenneth Fung, 馮溥倫,is Staff Psychiatrist 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 interest include both cultural psychiatry and psychotherapy, especially Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), CBT, and mindfulness, with projects and collaborations locally, nationally, and internationally, including China, Hong Kong, and South Korea. He champions cultural competence and conducts community-based research projects in Asian mental health, stigma, resilience, mental health promotion, trauma, caregivers for children with ASD, immigrant and refugee mental health, and pandemic response. He is the Block Co-coordinator of the Sociocultural Dimensions of Psychiatry for residents at the university and the seminar co-lead and psychotherapy supervisor in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). He is also psychiatric consultant to the Hong Fook Mental Health Association, an ethnospecific mental health organization for East and Southeast Asians. Dr. Fung is Co-chair of the Education Committee of the Society of the Study of Psychiatry and Culture (SSPC), Co-chair of the Cultural Psychiatry Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP), and for the American Psychiatric Association (APA), Member of the Future of DSM Steering Committee, Member of the Council on International Psychiatry and Global Health, and a Mental Health Equity Ambassador. For the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), Co-Lead of the Asian Culture and CBS SIG. He is the Historian of the Federation of Chinese American and Chinese Canadian Medical Societies (FCMS) and a trustee of the Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals (Ontario). He is recognized as a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association and the American Psychiatric Association, and Fellow of Association of Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS). His awards include the 2015 Social Responsibility Award from the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine; the 2016 American Psychiatric Association Foundation Award for Advancing Minority Health; the 2017 College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario Council Award; the 2018 Psychotherapy Award for Academic Excellence from University of Toronto; the 2020 Colin Woolf Award For Sustained Excellence in Teaching; and the 2024 American Psychiatric Association Kun- Po Soo Award, 2025 Chinese Canadian Legend Award, and the Canada 150 Medal.
