Dr Lisa Cheng
President
Registered Specialist in General Practice, Medical Board of Australia
Registered Chinese Medicine Practitioner (Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine), Chinese Medicine Board of Australia
Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board Authorised Medical Professional
InjuryNet Accredited Pre-Employment Medical Assessor
Antenatal Shared Care Accredited Medical Practitioner, Canterbury, RPA and Royal Hospital for Women Hospitals
Medical Director of Earlwood Medical Centre
MBBS(UNSW), BSc(Anat&Physio)(UNSW), BMedSc(USyd), Diploma in Child Health(Syd), Grad Dip Public Health (UNSW), PhD Candidate (UTS), FRACGP, AFRACMA, AFCHSM, MRACI, RCMP(Acup&CHM), FCMASA, JP
Dr Lisa Cheng graduated from University of New South Wales. After she graduated she has been trained in various hospitals for internship and residency prior to joining the Paediatric Training program at Sydney Children Hospital where she was working as a Paediatric Registrar for 2 years. Dr Cheng then worked in Palliative Medicine before joining the Family Medicine Speciality and later on became the Fellow of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Dr Cheng holds Specialist registration with the Medical Board of Australia in the speciality of General Practice.
In addition to clinical work, Dr Cheng also participated in University teaching and she is the Conjoint Academician at the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales as well as the former Lecturer for Clinical Features and Disease subject at the Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney. Dr Cheng is also an accredited GP Supervisor for the GP Registrar, as well as the OSCE Examiner for Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She is also a Surveyor with GPA Accreditation Plus, a role that she goes to other practices to perform the quality assessment as per RACGP Standards of practice. Furthermore, Dr Cheng is also an Associate Fellow with the Royal Australian College of Medical Administrators as well as the Australian College of Health Service Management. Under the leadership of Dr Cheng, Earlwood Medical Centre was able to be awarded the Local Business Award at the Canterbury region within the first year of operation. Furthermore, our centres were able to achieve accreditation always at the first attempt of survey.
In the community, Dr Cheng served in the Australian Chinese Medical Association (a professional organisation formed by registered medical practitioners with Asian backgrounds in NSW) as the Chair of Education and Sponsorship Subcommittee, overseeing and organising all member doctors' continual medical education activities for several years. She also serves on voluntary basis as an ongoing columnist at the Australian Chinese Daily Herald to provide up to date health information on Women's and Children's Health to the local community. Furthermore, Dr Cheng has been frequently sought by SBS Cantonese Radio Station to speak on various health topics to the general public.
In addition to English, Dr Cheng also speaks fluent Cantonese and functional Mandarin.