MELBOURNE CARDIOVASCULAR & DIABETES CENTRE - Key Persons
Dennis is a consultant interventional, cardiac MRI and CT cardiologist at Monash Medical Centre. Besides Monash Medical Centre, he has admitting rights to Jessie McPherson, The Valley and Epworth private hospitals. Dennis sees himself firstly as a general physician and secondly as a cardiologist. He has interest in all aspects of Cardiology (coronary artery disease, heart failure, structural heart disease & hypertension) and has been serving regional Australia in Mildura as a visiting general physician and cardiologist since 2010.
Dr Kevin Cheng graduated from Monash University in 2009 and completed his advanced training in cardiology at MonashHeart and the Royal Hobart Hospital. He subsequently completed a fellowship in Advanced Echocardiography and Cardiac CT.
Kevin manages a wide variety of adult cardiovascular conditions including coronary artery disease and cardiac risk assessment, heart failure, valvular heart disease, hypertension and dyslipidaemia. He has strong interest in cardiovascular research and is currently undertaking PhD research into the detection of vascular inflammation using cardiac CT. He is the recipient of the prestigious National Health and Medical Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship.
Kevin is fluent in Mandarin. Outside work, he enjoys cooking, travelling, photography, and especially spending time with his young family.
Job Titles:
- Consultant Physician ( General Medicine )
Dr Thein is a General Medicine physician with an interest in Preventive Cardiology and Heart Failure. He commenced and completed his physician training at Monash Health. He holds a senior medical staff position at Monash Health .
After obtaining his FRACP, Dr Thein completed his PhD at MonashHeart looking at predicting early heart failure using novel clinical, biochemical and imaging techniques. He was a visiting physician at Preventive Cardiology and Heart Failure clinic at Barts Heart Centre, a high volume cardiac service at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, UK.
He has received educational grants and won awards from ESC and Australian Atherosclerosis Society. He was awarded 3 years of academic clinical fellowship during his PhD which is a joint scholarship between Department of Medicine at Monash Health and Monash university. He also was awarded Master in Clinical Research Methods from Monash University. He has multiple primary author publications in peer reviewed journals and also presented his research work at both national and international conferences.
Job Titles:
- Endocrinologist
- Endocrinologist & Diabetes Specialist
Dr Jessica Chang is an endocrinologist who graduated from the University of New South Wales in 2003. Dr Chang is also a qualified dietitian from Flinders University, South Australia. She completed her basic physician training and endocrinology advance training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 2010. Dr Chang then undertook her Masters of Philosophy research in the area of diabetic gastric emptying at the University of Adelaide.
Dr Chang relocated to Victoria in 2012. Dr Chang specialises in General Endocrinology and her background as a qualified dietitian as well as a fitness instructor has given her an additional gear to motivate and help with weight loss in patients. Dr Chang is available to discuss urgent referrals or any clinical issues with General Practitioners, and converses in English, Mandarin, Hokkien and Malay languages.
Samantha is a credentialed diabetes educator who had trained extensively at the Royal Children's and Western Hospital. Samantha is an experienced diabetes educator with expansive public and private practice experience. Samantha offers excellence in Diabetes education and management in Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, Gestational Diabetes, Steroid induced and Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes. Samantha is also well experienced in initiation, education and ongoing management of patients on Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (CSII). In addition Samantha is also an expert in Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems (CGMS) - insertion, downloading and analysis.