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Dr David Fong
I enjoy the opportunity of working with fellow health-workers in a culturally and linguistically diverse community in suburban Australia. When the opportunity arises, I also work and volunteer overseas.
I appreciate the opportunity to both learn and share knowledge with team-members and students in Australia and elsewhere, such as in China and Kenya.
I particularly enjoy examining clinical data, and considering how data may be used to improve patient care, improve clinical processes and further the health of communities.
Education
Masters in Global Development Practice
Harvard University, Extension School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
2023 - 2019
Medical Statistics Certificate
Stanford University
Stanford, California
2021
Data, Economics and Development Policy Micromasters1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
edX
2019 - 2018
Drug and Alcohol Certificate Course
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
2004
Certificate of Integrative Medicine
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
2003 - 2002
International Health and Development Summer School
Tabor Adelaide
Adelaide, Australia
2002
Fellowship in Advanced Rural General Practice
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Australia
2001 - 1998
- incorporating Graduate Diploma in Rural General Practice
Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners2
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Australia
2001 - 1998
- Registration number : MED0001157068
- details and registration available at Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency3
Certificate of Advanced Paediatric Life Support
APLS Australia
Australia
2000
Diploma of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Royal Australian College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
N/A
1999 - 1998
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery M.B., B.S.4
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
1995 - 1989
Professional Experience
I have worked as a general practitioner in community health, a volunteer doctor in China, Kenya and Bangladesh and taught students and trainee doctors in Australia and China. I enjoy collaborative environments where I can learn from my peers.
Medical practitioner, Lead Doctor
coHealth community health service
Kensington, Victoria, Australia
Current - 2003
- multidisciplinary primary care practice with a particular focus on people groups with relative disadvantage including risk of homelessness, mental health, substance use disorders and refugee and asylum seeker health
- lead doctor (Kensington site) 2009 to present
volunteer doctor
Kibera, Kenya
Current - 2014
- visiting doctor
- data analysis
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer (2021 –)
volunteer doctor
Shaanxi, China
2019 - 2005
- Paediatric and general medicine
- Elim (HIV paediatric) and Shaanxi Agape Community Care Association (orphans and disability)
- direct patient care, working together with local doctors, training of local primary care physicians, community education
General practice (paediatric)
After-hours clinic Royal Children’s Hospital
Melbourne, Australia
2008 - 2007
volunteer doctor
Parbatipur, Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh
2003 - 2002
- General medicine
- Neonatal (level 2 nursery)
volunteer doctor
ShuangLiu County, Sichuan province, China
2002
- health screening
- lecturing to health professionals
General practice
Viewbank Family Medical Group, Rosanna Medical Group
Viewbank and Rosanna, Australia
2002 - 2001
Opthalmology/ENT emergency resident
Eye & Ear Hospital
Melbourne, Australia
2001 - 2000
- VATGP (Victorian Advanced Training for General Practice) position – six months
General practice
Federation Health
Moe, Victoria
2000
- Third term of General Practice Training Program (GPT3)
Paediatrics resident
Bendigo Base Hospital
Bendigo, Victoria
2000 - 1999
- VATGP (Victorian Advanced Training for General Practice) position – six months
General practice
Traralgon Medical Centre
Traralgon, Victoria
1999
- Second term of General Practice Training Program (GPT2)
Obstetrics & Gynaecology resident
Latrobe Regional Hospital
Traralgon, Victoria
1999 - 1998
- General practice training program – six months
General practice
Heyfield Medical Centre
Heyfield, Victoria
1998
- First term of General Practice Training Program (GPT1), Gippsland region
- small family medicine practice in a rural town of 2000 people, with attached bush nursing hospital
Hospital resident (HMO3)
Box Hill Hospital
Victoria, Australia
1998 - 1997
- Oncology, Emergency (Box Hill Hospital)
- Psycho-geriatrics (Peter James Centre)
- Emergency, ICU (Maroondah Hospital)
Hospital resident (HMO2)
Preston and Northcote Community Hospital (PANCH)
Victoria, Australia
1997 - 1996
- Emergency, Urology/Thoracic (PANCH)
- ENT and Opthalmology (Bendigo Base Hospital)
- Psychiatry (Larundel)
Hospital resident (HMO1) – Intern
Austin Hospital
Victoria, Australia
1996 - 1995
- General medicine, Emergency, Spinal (Austin Hospital)
- Geriatrics (Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital)
- General Surgery, Emergency (Maroondah)
Alfred Hospital auxiliary (volunteer)
Alfred Hospital
Prahran, Victoria
1990
Selected Data Analyses and Contributions
Contributions to Best Practice electronic medical record SQL search forum5
N/A
Current - 2018
- custom SQL scripts for practice improvement activities, including finding patients eligible for vaccination, prescription monitoring, finding allergy status, finding duplicate files, searching for patients living in particular addresses, searching for specific entries in the comment field and missed billing opportunities.
DailyMeasure and dMeasure - R libraries for interacting with the Best Practice electronic medical record system6
N/A
N/A
Current - 2019
Contributions to dbplyr, a database backend for R tidyverse dplyr7
N/A
2021 - 2020
- improvements and corrections to
dbplyrinteractions with Microsoft SQL Server
Relationship between morbidity potentially attributable to air pollution and gender in Kibera, Kenya8
Kibera, Kenya
2020
Cervical screening and intensive telephone-based case-finding10
coHealth community health service
Melbourne, Australia
2019
Teaching Experience
I have supervised healthcare students and junior doctors in Australia and China and lectured to community groups and doctors in China.
Clinical supervisor of general practice registrars (trainees)
Murray City Country Coast (MCCC) general practice training
N/A
2023 - 2015
Community Teaching Assistant (TA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
edX
2019
- Teaching Assistant for ‘Designing and Running Randomized Evaluations’
Clinical supervisor of University of Melbourne undergraduate students
University of Melbourne
N/A
2019 - 2008
Clinical supervisor of general practice registrars (trainees)
Victorian Metropolitan Alliance
N/A
2014 - 2009
Honorary Clinical Teacher
Centre for Rural Health, Monash University
Traralgon, Victoria
2001 - 1998
Publications
Efficacy of high dose Vitamin D supplementation in improving serum 25(OH)D among migrant and non migrant population: a retrospective study
N/A
BMC Health Services Research (2016) 16:579
2016
- authored with Usha Gowda, Thilanga Ruwanpathirana, Ambika Kaur and Andre M. N. Renzaho
Vitamin D testing patterns among general practitioners in a major Victorian primary health care service
N/A
Australia and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015
2015
- authored with Usha Gowda, Ben J. Smith, Anita E. Wluka, Ambika Kaur, Andre M.N. Renzaho
Assessment of vitamin D and its association with cardiovascular disease risk factors in an adult migrant population: an audit of patient records at a Community Health Centre in Kensington, Melbourne, Australia
N/A
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders vol. 14, Article number: 157
2014
- authored with Thilanga Ruwanpathirana, Christopher M Reid, Alice J Owen, Usha Gowda, Andre M N Renzaho
Prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency and risk factors for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease among African migrant and refugee adults in Melbourne: a pilot study
N/A
Asia Pacific Journal Clinical Nutrition 2011;20(3):397–403
2011
- authored with Renzaho AM, Nowson C, Kaur A, Halliday JA, Desilva J
Usage of complementary medicine among children
N/A
Australian Family Physician, April 2002. 31(4):388–391
2002
- authored with Lee Fong
Links
- https://micromasters.mit.edu/certificate/program/721e9a94ec5e2a866c7b5f56adbf4c38
- https://www.ahpra.gov.au/Registration/Registers-of-Practitioners.aspx?q=MED0001157068&t=I5UTt2InzNnIj48JB4xC
- https://www.ahpra.gov.au
- https://www.myequals.net/sharelink/638d1976-114b-4349-b5e6-83d2dda1d3a6/299bd932-b131-4491-a002-f1cfbec0c98e
- https://forum.bpsoftware.net/members/davidfong.14539/#recent-content
- https://github.com/DavidPatShuiFong/DailyMeasure
- https://github.com/tidyverse/dbplyr/commits?author=DavidPatShuiFong
- https://www.davidfong.org/project/airpollutiongenderkenya_2020/
- https://www.davidfong.org/project/pharmacyinpractice_2020/
- https://www.davidfong.org/project/cervicalscreeningtelephone_2019/