Kua Ee Heok (Chinese: 柯以煜) is a Singaporean psychiatrist and the Tan Geok Yin Professor in Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the National University of Singapore.
[2] Kua was born in Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia, the sixth of seven children of a well-to-do Chinese Teochew family.
He was eventually convinced by a friend to go abroad instead, enrolling into the University of Manchester to undertake a Master of Medicine, initially planning to specialise in pediatrics.
[2] Kua was the last psychiatrist to see Tan Mui Choon, a perpetrator of the Toa Payoh ritual murders, and prescribed her medication for her schizophrenia.
[9] He developed the Elderly Cognitive Assessment Questionnaire by modifying the mini–mental state examination for an Asian, illiterate audience with poor educational backgrounds.