Dr. Chooi Chean Chong • General Practitioner • ATUNE Health Centres

M.D, AMC, FRACGP

Chooi Chean believes that long-term health is built through sustainable habits, non-judgmental support, and personalized care. As a General Practitioner transitioned from Emergency Medicine Advanced Trainee, she has seen both ends of the spectrum of chronic diseases, this leads to her keeps on thinking about how to address the root causes of those chronic diseases and even better, to prevent those conditions to happen in the first instance. This not only leads to her completed the Fellowship of Royal Australasian College of General Practitioner (FRACGP), she is also currently completing Accreditation Course of Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM) to provide high quality of care to the communities.

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Special interests:
  • Preventive Health & Lifestyle Optimization
  • Sustainable Weight Management & Metabolic Health
  • Chronic Diseases Prevention & Care
  • Women’s health including Implanon insertion, intra-uterine device insertion, perimenopause/ menopause.
Rather than relying on quick fixes within short appointment in which she states that holistic approach is very challenging, she integrates both traditional general practice with lifestyle medicine principles to chronic medical conditions. She gives patients time to express themselves (hence the long appointment), partners with patients via shared decision approach to address the underlying fundamental factors affecting chronic medical conditions—including nutrition, movement, sleep, mental health and substance use. She is multilingual thanks to her background being Chinese Malaysian, she is fluent in English, Mandarin, Malay and Cantonese.
Personal Life:
Outside the clinic, she enjoys reading, doing regular resistance training in the gym, checking out new recipes to make healthy nutritious meals, walking in the green, hiking and travelling. Sleep is her top one non-negotiable thing.
"I want to be the role model for my patients and empower them, practice what I say to my patients." 
She welcomes new patients seeking a collaborative approach to long-term vitality.
** Please note that Dr. Chong does not prescribe opioid treatment for chronic non-cancer pain conditions.

 

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