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Prof. David SHUM
Yeung Tsang Wing Yee and Tsang Wing Hing Professor in Neuropsychology, Chair Professor of Neuropsychology and Dean of Faculty of Health and Social Sciences
BA Massey, PhD Qld, FAPS, FCCN, FASSBI
- A401
- +852 2766 4510
- david.shum@polyu.edu.hk
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Professor Shum is a neuropsychologist who has over 30 years of experience in the assessment and rehabilitation of higher-level cognitive functions (e.g., attention, memory, and executive function) in normal and brain-injured children and adults. He has published a number of neuropsychological tests such as the Comprehensive Assessment of Prospective Memory and the Australian Retrograde Memory Test and has also conducted many randomized controlled trials that evaluated the effectiveness of training/intervention on brain functions. Professor Shum has been awarded over 25 national and international competitive grants by funding bodies such as the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. He has published 4 books, 1 edited book, 8 book chapters, over 235 refereed journal articles, and 6 encyclopaedia entries. Professor Shum has been invited to present his research at many national and international conferences and he is on the editorial board of international journals such as Neuropsychological Rehabilitation and PsyCh Journal. In 2015, Professor Shum was appointed an Honorary Academic Consultant at the Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Chinese Mainland. In 2017, he was appointed a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Chinese Mainland.
Education and Academic Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Massey University
- Bachelor of Arts, Massey University
- Doctor of Philosophy, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
Professional Qualifications
- Fellowship of the Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment
- Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society
- Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
- Academic Member of the APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists
- Associate Fellow of the Hong Kong Psychological Society
Research Interests
Research Output
- Phillips, N. L., Shum, D. H. K., Mandalis, A, Parry, A., Benson, S., Morrow, A., Epps, A., & Lah, S. (2018). Time-based prospective memory in children with traumatic brain injury: Impact of working memory demands. Neuropsychology, 32, 575-585.
- Wilson, J., Andrews, G., Hogan, C., Wang, S., & Shum, D. H. K. (2018). Executive function in middle childhood and the relationship with theory of mind. Developmental Neuropsychology, 43, 163-182.
- Ownsworth, T., Fleming, J., Tate, R., Beadle, E., Griffin, J., Kendall, M., Schmidt, J., Lane-Brown, A., Chevignard, M., and Shum, D. H. K. (2017). Do people with severe traumatic brain injury benefit from making errors? A randomized controlled trial of error-based and errorless learning. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 31, 1072-1082.
- Tunstall, J. R., O'Gorman, J. G., & Shum, D. H. K. (2016). A four-disc version of the Tower of London for clinical use. Journal of Neuropsychology, 10(1), 116-129.
- Canty, A. L., Fleming, J., Patterson, F., Green, H. J., Man, D., & Shum, D. H. K. (2014). Evaluation of a virtual reality prospective memory task for use with individuals with severe traumatic brain injury. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 24, 238-265.
