Who I Am

I grew up in China and being a doctor was a dream of mine since childhood. After graduating with honours from the most prestigious medical school in China (Peking Union Medical College, Tsinghua University), I spent years working at major hospitals in Melbourne, Adelaide and Launceston.

While gaining experiences across multiple specialities, I enjoyed the diverse encounters and found myself tossing among different career pathways. At the end I embarked on a specialty providing the most diversity — general practice.

I completed the training as a general practitioner in Australia and is a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.

I consult in both English and Mandarin Chinese.

What I do

I love all the aspects of general practice, from the common conditions seen in newborn babies to assisting with end-of-life care, from providing acute care including pulling out sea urchin spikes to managing chronic health conditions such as diabetes mellitus.

I believe that a big role of general practitioners is in preventative medicine, so I am passionate about screening for indicated conditions and lifestyle medicine.

I love kids and have a special interest in child health. I achieved higher qualifications in paediatrics by completing the Diploma in Child Health (DCH) with the renowned Sydney Children’s Hospital Network. As a mother of two young children, I can relate to the challenges that motherhood encounters and would love to support people through the tough patch of parenthood.

Women’s health is another area that I am passionate about. I commonly see patients for menstruation related conditions, pre-pregnancy counselling, pregnancy care, management of menopausal symptoms and many other more.

With the rising burden of mental health conditions, the roles of doctors have evolved as well. To be able to support my patients better, I obtained further training in mental health with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners,. I am now a registered GP provider of Focused Psychological Skills (FSP).

As A Health Educator

While medicine is a highly specialised area, there shouldn’t be a barrier for people without medical background to obtain health related information. When health literacy improved across the population, many disease can be prevented, many risk factors can be modified and many lives can be saved.

I love the idea that when I provide the correct information to my patients in an easy-to-understand way, that piece of information would be passed onto their friends and families, potentially helping more people in a ripple effect.

This is the reason for me to start writing blogs (in Chinese) to provide updated health related information.

I am a volunteer and a former employed health educator of the award-winning NGO The Water Well Project. I travel to various communities in Melbourne, to facilitate health education sessions for people from migrant, asylum seeker and refugee background. Those sessions are hugely rewarding because the very important health information is shared to communities affected by health inequity the most.