DR Terry Chong

DR Terry Chong

Positions

Overview

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  • Terry is Senior Research Fellow - Psychiatry of Old Age at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Department of Psychiatry.
    He is involved in research around cognitive health and cognitive impairment as well as physical activity, anxiety and Huntington's disease.
    In 2018, he was awarded Membership of the Melbourne Medical School Academy of Clinical Teachers and teaches medical students and psychiatrists in training through the Master of Psychiatry course.  He was also course coordinator of the Masters course from 2010-2013.
    He advocates to increase community awareness of cognitive health, for example in the media and in community forums.
    He also practices as a psychiatrist at St Vincent's Health and Epworth Healthcare.
    He is a PhD candidate with the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age. In 2017, he co-launched a new online CBT based weight management program called Medical and Mind Weight Loss.
    www.medicalmindweightloss.com   

Publications

Selected publications

Research

Awards

Education and training

  • MBA, Deakin University 2014
  • MPSYCHIATRY, University of Melbourne 2006
  • GRADCERTAPPFIN, Securities Institute of Australia 2003
  • MBBS, University of Melbourne 2000

Awards and honors

  • Graham Burrows Travelling Scholarship, 2019
  • Membership of the Melbourne Medical School Academy of Clinical Teachers, 2018
  • PhD Scholarship NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Cognitive Health, 2017
  • Dean's Merit List Deakin University Postgraduate Business and Law, 2014
  • Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 2009
  • Melbourne Abroad Scholarship, 1999
  • Prize In Geriatric Medicine 4th year MBBS University of Melbourne, 1998