Rate My Professor Chris Lin

Chris Lin, M.D., Ph.D., known professionally as Dr. Chris Lin or Chao-Cheng Lin, serves as an Assistant Research Fellow in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago. This department is part of the Faculty of Medicine within the Health Sciences Division. His affiliations have included the Department of Psychology at the University of Otago, where he conducted research involving prospective, multiple time-point follow-up surveys with undergraduates, and the Department of Psychiatry at National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan. Lin holds an M.D. and Ph.D., reflecting his combined medical and research training in psychiatry and psychology.

Lin's research outputs demonstrate contributions to psychiatric education, artificial intelligence applications in mental health assessment, suicide prevention, mental health stigma, and clinical psychiatry in New Zealand. Key publications include 'Psychiatric Care, Training and Research in Aotearoa New Zealand' (2024, Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry, co-authored with Charlotte Mentzel and Maria Luz C. Querubin), which examines psychiatric services, training, and research in New Zealand. Another is 'The Performance of ChatGPT on Short-answer Questions in a Psychiatry Examination: A Pilot Study' (2024, co-authored with Kobus du Plooy and Andrew Gray), evaluating AI performance in psychiatric assessments. He authored 'Longitudinal mediation by perceived burden of the relationship between thwarted belongingness and suicidal ideation' (2022, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, with Richard J. Linscott), analyzing mechanisms of suicidal ideation. Additional works are 'Comparing ChatGPT's ability to rate the degree of stereotypes and the consistency of stereotype attribution with those of medical students in New Zealand in developing a similarity rating test: a methodological study' (2023, Journal of Education Evaluation for Health Professions, with Zaine Akuhata-Huntington and Che-Wei Hsu), 'Evaluating the Impact of an Online Virtual Program on Mental Health Literacy, Stigma, and Attitudes toward Mental Illness' (2025, Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry, with Yi-Ling Chien and Jen-Yeu Chen), 'ChatGPT Addiction: A Proposed Phenomenon of Dual Parasocial Interaction' (2024), and 'Assessing emotional characteristics in Asian autistic adults using the Empathy-Systemizing Quotient' (2023, with Yi-Ling Chien et al.). These publications highlight his focus on innovative tools and cultural contexts in psychological medicine.