Dr David Chieng

Dr David Chieng is a highly trained and experienced consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist specialising in the management of heart rhythm disturbances, including cardiac arrhythmia (atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, SVT, ventricular tachycardia) ablation and cardiac device (pacemaker, defibrillator, cardiac resynchronization therapy, conduction system pacing) implantation. He holds a public appointment at the Alfred Hospital (Melbourne), and is the Director of Cardiac Rhythm Management at Latrobe Regional Hospital.

Dr Chieng is multi-lingual and speaks fluent Mandarin and Malay.

He completed his medical degree through the University of Western Australia with a UWA SWANS Scholarship, winning multiple academic prizes. He then undertook a 4 year clinical fellowship training in electrophysiology and pacing at the Alfred Hospital and Royal Melbourne Hospital, and is a IBHRE certified cardiac device specialist (CCDS). He completed his PhD thesis in 2022 with the support of the NHMRC, National Heart Foundation, and the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute Bright Sparks scholarships. He was the principal investigator of the CAPLA, Hi-Lo HEAT and STALL HFpEF randomized trials.

Dr Chieng has been recognised for his achievements in clinical research both nationally and internationally with an unprecedented 23 prestigious young investigator awards; including the 2022 University of Melbourne Graham Brown Prize for Best Student Publication, the 2023 Eric N Prystowsky Fellow Clinical Researcher Prize (HRS New Orleans), the 2023 Christopher O'Connor Award for Outstanding Scholarship (ACC 2024, Atlanta, Georgia), the Paul Korner Medal for Outstanding PhD Achievements (2021), and the Noel and Imelda Foster Prize for Cardiovascular Research (2022). He has been awarded the highly prestigious 2024 University of Melbourne Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in Phd Thesis, and the 2024 University of Melbourne Dean's Award for Excellence in Phd Thesis