Our Team
Dr Adam Idris
Dr Chia Pei Chong
Dr Chia Pei Chong
MBBS FRACP
Director of Aged care and Rehabilitation, Monash Health
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician Monash University (2007)
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians (2014)
Dr Idris is a Geriatrician and Physician who practices in the South Eastern area. He holds a public position in Monash Health, as the
MBBS FRACP
Director of Aged care and Rehabilitation, Monash Health
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician Monash University (2007)
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians (2014)
Dr Idris is a Geriatrician and Physician who practices in the South Eastern area. He holds a public position in Monash Health, as the Director of General Medicine in Dandenong Hospital where he has admitting rights. He is also the Medical Lead of the Monash Health Residential InReach unit, providing care for patients in residential aged care facilities.
Dr Idris’ geriatric interests include Dementia and it’s associated behavioural symptoms, Residential Aged Care, Frailty, Chronic Pain and Advanced Care Planning. His other interests include Complex Care and General Medicine in the elderly. Dr Idris is passionate in preventative health, and aims to provide quality care for older people to maximise their independence and quality of life.
In addition to English, Dr Idris is also fluent in Malay.
Dr Chia Pei Chong
Dr Chia Pei Chong
Dr Chia Pei Chong
MBBS FRACP
Master Wound Care
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians.
Dr Chong completed her medical degree at Monash University and completed her specialty training through Monash Health, Eastern Health and the Alfred Hospital. Dr Chong has a Fellowship in continence
MBBS FRACP
Master Wound Care
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians.
Dr Chong completed her medical degree at Monash University and completed her specialty training through Monash Health, Eastern Health and the Alfred Hospital. Dr Chong has a Fellowship in continence management.
Dr Chong works in the hospital as the Medical Lead in GEM at home, a service that provides geriatric assessment and rehabilitation for older patients at home. She also provides care for older people in complex care clinic and with aged care assessment service (ACAS). She is also a current member of the council for Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine (ANZSGM).
She is passionate in improving the health and quality of life for her patients, advocating for her patients including helping them to stay at home. Her strengths are providing complex care for patients in the community including managing polypharmacy, cognitive impairment, falls and balance, chronic wound care. She is also the co-author of the Geriatric Society's position statement on Immunisation for older people.
Dr Chong is fluent in multiple languages including Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien and Malay.
钟佳佩医生
老年病学专家 主任医师 荣任澳洲及纽西兰皇家医师协会会员 钟医生于蒙纳士大学医学系取得硕士学位，并于各大教学医院如蒙纳士医疗中心，东方健康医学中心及阿尔弗雷德医院受训，取得老年病学专科学位。钟医生在膀胱健康这一课题上颇有建树，亦同时修读伤口防治硕士学位。
钟佳佩医生目前是领队主治医师，负责老年健康议题及老年复建。她同时也提供全面性诊断及阶段性护理方案予病人们。钟医生荣任南园老龄医疗中心的联合主任一职。
钟医生颇有语言天分，可以流利使用华语，广东话，福建话及马来语。
Dr Alice Lac
Dr Chia Pei Chong
Dr Ankit Gupta
MBBS (Hons), FRACP
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Monash University (2006)
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians (2013).
Member of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine (2011 – current).
Dr Lac is a senior geriatrician. She was an adjunct senior lecturer for Monash University (2
MBBS (Hons), FRACP
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Monash University (2006)
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians (2013).
Member of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine (2011 – current).
Dr Lac is a senior geriatrician. She was an adjunct senior lecturer for Monash University (2014-2016) and has been heavily involved in the supervision and training of geriatrics trainees in her multiple public hospital positions around Victoria.
She has extensive experience and interests in all geriatrics conditions, including:
· memory issues
· changed behaviours associated with dementia
· falls and osteoporosis
· polypharmacy
· multimorbidity
· palliative care
Dr Lac strives to see older people receive timely and high-quality care, tailored to their individual needs. Fluent in English, she can also speak Mandarin and Cantonese.
Dr Ankit Gupta
Dr Ankit Gupta
Dr Ankit Gupta
MBBS BMedSci FRACP
Clin Dip Pall Med
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians
Dr Gupta graduated from the University of Melbourne and completed his training across Eastern Health and Monash Health. He holds a substantial public hospital appointment as a Geriatrician, Perio
MBBS BMedSci FRACP
Clin Dip Pall Med
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians
Dr Gupta graduated from the University of Melbourne and completed his training across Eastern Health and Monash Health. He holds a substantial public hospital appointment as a Geriatrician, Perioperative and General Medicine Physician at Monash Health.
Dr Gupta has expertise in all core areas of Geriatric Medicine, with special interests in cognitive impairment and dementia, residential aged care, falls prevention, chronic disease management, palliative care and perioperative medicine in the elderly. During his training he has also gained experience in several relevant areas including chronic pain, movement disorders, metabolic bone disorders and acute medicine.
He provides holistic, compassionate, and collaborative care that is catered to the unique needs of the older adult and aimed at improving quality of life.
Languages: English, Hindi
Dr Reena Rau
Dr Ankit Gupta
Dr Chris Woo
MBBS FRACP
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians
Dr Reena Rau is a physician specialising in Geriatric Medicine who has worked in numerous hospitals including Austin Health, Monash Health, Prince Charles and Royal Brisbane Hospital. Her extensive experiences have involved
MBBS FRACP
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians
Dr Reena Rau is a physician specialising in Geriatric Medicine who has worked in numerous hospitals including Austin Health, Monash Health, Prince Charles and Royal Brisbane Hospital. Her extensive experiences have involved working in various areas of internal and geriatric medicine including:
•Community based Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment(s)
•Cognitive Dementia Assessment Memory Service and Psychogeriatric Services
•Continence Service
•Movement disorders
•Geriatric inpatient and Ortho geriatric / peri operative assessments
•Community Palliative care services
•Chronic Complex disease management
She has also been involved in research involving symptom management and improving care in older adults including:
•A systematic review in the use of melatonin in delirium which was presented at a scientific conference and also received “the best project of the year" award by Monash Health
•A pilot study of screening geriatric oncology patients for vulnerability to adverse outcomes
•Fatigue after stroke trial
•Association between type of anaesthesia, surgery and post operative morbidity and mortality in older patients with hip fractures
Dr Chris Woo
Dr Ankit Gupta
Dr Chris Woo
MBBS FRACP
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of
Physicians
Dr Woo is a Melbourne based Geriatrician and general medicine physician. He completed his specialist training at Alfred Health and Monash Health. He currently works fractionally with Monash
Health.
Dr Woo’s areas of interest
MBBS FRACP
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of
Physicians
Dr Woo is a Melbourne based Geriatrician and general medicine physician. He completed his specialist training at Alfred Health and Monash Health. He currently works fractionally with Monash
Health.
Dr Woo’s areas of interest include acute general medicine, chronic complex disease management in adults, comprehensive geriatric assessments, cognitive impairment and dementia. He offers a compassionate and empathetic approach to patients with multiple complex health problems.
Dr Thinza Moe
Dr Maneesha De Silva
Dr Thinza Moe
MBBS, FRACP
Master of Gerontology (La Trobe University) (2013)
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians (2019)
Dr Moe is a Geriatrician and General Medicine physician who practices in South Eastern areas of Melbourne. She completed her specialist training at Monash Health, Ea
MBBS, FRACP
Master of Gerontology (La Trobe University) (2013)
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians (2019)
Dr Moe is a Geriatrician and General Medicine physician who practices in South Eastern areas of Melbourne. She completed her specialist training at Monash Health, Eastern Health
and Peninsula Health. She currently holds a geriatrician position in Monash Health.
Dr. Moe completed Master of Gerontology with a research on behaviours and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) management in older adults with dementia living in the community.
Dr Moe is passionate in Preventive Health of older adults and Healthy Ageing. Her focus is on providing holistic care to optimize older adults’ quality of life. Her strengths are managing complex chronic medical issues, polypharmacy, falls reduction and managing behaviours and
psychological symptoms of dementia.
Dr Moe also speaks Burmese.
Dr Joe Hu
Dr Maneesha De Silva
Dr Thinza Moe
MBBS, FRACP
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians
Dr Hu graduated from University of Melbourne in 2014 and obtained his Fellowship of The Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2022.
He completed his basic physician training at Monash health, followed by specialist
MBBS, FRACP
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians
Dr Hu graduated from University of Melbourne in 2014 and obtained his Fellowship of The Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2022.
He completed his basic physician training at Monash health, followed by specialist training in Geriatric Medicine at Monash Health and Peninsula Health.
He has experience in many areas of Geriatric Medicine including Residential In-Reach, Movement Disorders Unit, Palliative care, Orthogeriatrics Perioperative Care, GEM at Home, Geriatric Evaluation and Management unit, Memory clinic, and Falls and balance clinic.
Dr Hu focuses on holistic approach in the provision of quality care, with special interests in comprehensive geriatric assessment, Parkinson’s disease, management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), and palliative care.
Dr Hu is able to communicate fluently in English and Mandarin.
Dr Maneesha De Silva
Dr Maneesha De Silva
Dr Maneesha De Silva
MBChB FRACP
Geriatrician and General Medicine Physician
Member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Member of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine
Member of The Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand
Dr Maneesha De Silva does residential care visits and in-clinic consultations.
She completed h
MBChB FRACP
Geriatrician and General Medicine Physician
Member of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Member of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine
Member of The Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand
Dr Maneesha De Silva does residential care visits and in-clinic consultations.
She completed her medical degree from the University of Otago (NZ) in 2007. Maneesha completed her specialist training in Geriatric Medicine at Monash Health.
She is passionate about improving
health outcomes for older people.
Maneesha has a particular interest in managing patients with dementia, delirium, falls and bone health, palliative care, nutrition in older people and older persons’ mental health.
Outside work hours, Maneesha enjoys spending time with her kids.
Maneesha is also fluent in Sinhalese.
Dr Valerie Co
Dr Valerie Co
Dr Maneesha De Silva
MBBS, FRACP, ClinDip Pall Care
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Monash University, School of Medicine, Clayton, Victoria
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians (2022) Clinical Diploma in Palliative Care
Dr Co graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in 2014. Her further tra
MBBS, FRACP, ClinDip Pall Care
Consultant Physician and Geriatrician
Monash University, School of Medicine, Clayton, Victoria
Member of the Royal Australasian and New Zealand College of Physicians (2022) Clinical Diploma in Palliative Care
Dr Co graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in 2014. Her further training includes qualifying as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians as a Consultant Geriatrician in 2022, with a Graduate Certificate in Health Promotion (Curtin University) and a Clinical Diploma in Palliative Care (Royal Australasian College of Physicians).
Dr Co has varied experience in community-based and hospital medicine, in metropolitan Melbourne as well as in country Victoria. She trained at Bairnsdale Regional Health Service, Monash Health, and Alfred Health. Dr Co has experience working across many areas of Geriatric medicine, including Geriatric Evaluation and Management unit (GEM), GEM at Home, Residential In Reach, Aged Psychiatry, Palliative Care, Aged Care Assessment Service (ACAS), Geriatric Consults; Falls, and Memory clinics. She is eager to assist patients achieve better health and quality of life holistically and as guided by the patient’s personal priorities in different stages of life.
Dr Co’s special interests include: Chronic disease management, Provision of supportive care and Optimising quality of life, De-prescribing and Medication rationalisation, and coordinating with patients, their GP, and other specialist/s, as well as family supports to achieve the best health outcomes.
She is fluent in English and Tagalog (Filipino).