Prof Ada Cheung

MBBS (HONS) FRACP PHD DIP BUS (GOV)

Prof Ada Cheung (she/her) is a leading specialist consultant Endocrinologist providing individualised, patient-centred endocrine care in close collaboration with local GPs. She welcomes any General Endocrine referrals in adult patients.

Prof Cheung holds a prestigious Australian Government National Health and Medical Research Council Fellowship as well as a Dame Kate Campbell Fellowship at The University of Melbourne, striving to advance health outcomes for individuals with hormone conditions. She is also an Endocrinologist in the Department of Endocrinology at Austin Hospital. Prof Cheung has research interests (click here for publications) in understanding the effects of testosterone and estrogen on the body, in particular preventing side-effects of androgen deprivation therapy for men with prostate cancer and improving health outcomes for trans and gender diverse individuals (www.transresearch.org.au). Prof Cheung has won a large number of international and national awards for her research including being one of five recipients worldwide (and the only Australian in 2016) of the prestigious US Endocrine Society Early Investigator Award and a finalist in the Victorian Premier’s Award for Health and Medical Research. Her advocacy and commitment to co-creation with community to improve trans health was recognised with the GLOBE LGBTIQ Ally of the Year.

Prof Cheung is also a tutor, lecturer and supervisor at the University of Melbourne Medical School. Furthermore, she is a policy committee member of the Australian Professional Association for Trans Health, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Transgender Health, and an editorial board member of leading international medical journals;the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, LGBT Health, and Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism. She regularly engages in media and presents at national and international conferences and meetings. Committed to community service in the not-for-profit sector, Prof Cheung is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Community Directors.

Medical Training

Prof Cheung completed her Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery at The University of Melbourne and graduated in 2003 as the top medical student at the Austin Hospital Clinical School. She continued her medical training and specialty training at Austin Hospital, Royal Melbourne Hospital, The Northern Hospital and Bendigo Hospitals and obtained her Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in Endocrinology. She has General and Specialist Registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency.

Awards

Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2024
Endocrine Society of Australia Mid-Career Award 2024
Named as 1 of 50 remarkable and inspirational women in Australian science, Cosmos Magazine 2024
Allen Distinguished Investigator Award in Sex Hormones (USA) 2023
University of Melbourne, Faculty of MDHS Award for Excellence in Engagement for Public Value 2022
GLOBE LGBTIQ Ally of the Year 2021
Uni of Melb Strategic Grant for Outstanding Women 2021
RACP Fellows Research Establishment Fellowship 2021
International Women’s Day Inspirational Woman Award, Austin Health 2020
Dame Kate Campbell Fellow, University of Melbourne 2020
Endocrine Society of Australia Ken Wynne Postdoctoral Award 2020
RACP Cottrell Research Establishment Fellowship 2020
Melbourne Medical School Publication Prize Finalist 2019
ESA/Australian Women in Endocrinology Outstanding Abstract Award 2019
Selected as 1 of 4 “Extraordinary women of the Melbourne Medical School” highlighted in the Melbourne Medical School Chiron Alumni Magazine 2019
National Health & Medical Research Council Early Career Fellowship
RACP Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation Fellowship for research excellence and outstanding community service leadership.
Viertel Charitable Foundation Clinical Investigator Award; 1 of 5 national awards.
Austin Medical Research Foundation Bernie Sweet Fellowship.
Australian Women in Endocrinology/Endocrine Society of Australia Young Investigator Travel Award.
US Endocrine Society Early Investigator Award for outstanding accomplishments in endocrine research.
US Endocrine Society Outstanding Abstract Award.
Logemas Student Travel Award.
Endocrine Society of Australia Bryan Hudson Clinical Endocrinology Prize for the best clinical research presentation at the Annual Scientific Meeting.
Endocrine Society of Australia Travel Award to attend the Annual Scientific Meeting.
National Health & Medical Research Council Postgraduate Research Scholarship.
Medical Education Award for the best junior medical staff supervisor.
Deans’ Honours List – The University of Melbourne.
Senior Medical Staff Award for the top medical student at Austin Health.

Scope of Practice

The typical conditions treated by Prof Cheung are:

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