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

Location A401
Phone +852 2766 4510
mail david.shum@polyu.edu.hk

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Biography ProfessorShum 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 theComprehensive Assessment of Prospective Memoryand theAustralian Retrograde Memory Testand 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. ProfessorShum has been invited to present his research at many national and international conferences and he is on the editorial board of international journals such asNeuropsychological RehabilitationandPsyCh 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 Doctor of Philosophy, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND
Bachelor of Arts, Massey University
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Massey University




Professional Qualifications Associate Fellow of the Hong Kong Psychological Society
Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
Fellowship of the Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment
Academic Member of the APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists
Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society




Research Interests
Prospective memory problems in older individuals and patients with brain injury
Cognitive neuroscience of human memory and executive function
Cognitive and social cognitive impairments in people with mental health problems



Research Output

Publications
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.