Dr Paul Victor Patinadan, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore specializes in health research. He holds additional appointments as an Health Professions Educator with the National Healthcare Group, Singapore, and is a Clinical Teacher at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. As an interdisciplinary mixed-methods researcher, Dr Patinadan specializes in psychosocial interventions, positive psychology and well-being, implementation science, holistic education in care-ecosystems, and how the medical humanities is employed for humanistic pedagogy.
He has worked on several projects with a focus on clinical outcomes for various illness trajectories, community and critical health psychology, psychosociospiritual well-being for patient-populations and their families, and evaluative research for health organizations. These include investigating the health behaviors of the chronically-ill, understanding the role of dignity for individuals at the end of life, facilitating the grieving process for surviving family, and evaluating the Singaporean National Advance Care Planning Programme. Dr Patinadan’s recent work focuses on how grieving individuals employ their shared experiences with food and eating to facilitate their healing process. To date, Dr Patinadan has participated in multiple international and local conferences, and has been awarded with a number of teaching and academic honors.