Associate Professor
Daryl Cheng
MBBS MPH FRACP
AFAIDH AFRACMA GAICD CHIA
Paediatrician & clinical informatician; based in Melbourne, Australia.
Daryl’s practice is to empower and work together with families and children to be the driver in achieving wellness.
Background & Experience
Associate Professor Daryl Cheng is a consultant paediatrician and clinical informatician at The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne (RCH), consultant paediatrician at Monash Children’s Hospital and Head of Paediatrics, Cabrini Health – with additional clinical research and educational posts at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and Honorary Principal Fellow at the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne.
He is engaged in systems thinking, innovation and design work through appointments in the RCH Strategy, Quality & Improvement team, and as a digital health consultant at the Melbourne Children’s Campus Centre for Health Analytics and RCH Electronic Medical Record Team. His public health interest spans medical lead and clinical research roles with Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Vaccination in the Community (SAEFVIC), Victoria’s vaccine safety surveillance system and also at the Melbourne Vaccine Education Centre (MVEC).
Review A/Prof Cheng’s research and scholarly contributions at ORCiD, University of Melbourne and MCRI.
A/Prof Cheng has specific interests in acute care / high dependency inpatient paediatrics and travel & immunisation medicine. He is a co-founder of Family & Immunisation Travel Specialists (FITS) Clinic, and consults privately at Cabrini Health.
A graduate of Monash University, his interests led him to pursue further training in public health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His paediatric training was completed in Melbourne, Australia and paediatric clinical fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children (Sickkids) in Toronto, Canada.
Outside of clinical medicine, A/Prof Cheng holds various committee and council roles at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), Australian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) and is a non-executive board director of Adventist Healthcare Limited (AHCL) and Tweddle Child and Family Health Service. He is a fellow of RACP, an associate fellow of AIDH and the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA) and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). He is also a Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA).
A/Prof Cheng is also a founder of Unyoked Health, a boutique health consultancy.
Daryl enjoys travel, photography and is an active member and founder of various community and non-profit enterprise ventures, including Team:MED and Bubbles & Briefcases. He enjoys bow ties, tweets here and posts on IG.