Dr LP Cheah

Dr LP Cheah is an experienced surgeon and endoscopist with special interests in minimally invasive hernia repair, colonoscopy, haemorrhoids, minor plastic surgery, and pilonidal sinus surgery.

He graduated as the top student from the University of Melbourne in 1997 and completed his surgical training in England and Australia in 2005. He founded Melbourne Surgery in 2006 and has since performed over 25,000 surgical procedures.

He has been a mentor and lecturer at the University of Melbourne Medical School; and currently teaches and facilitates the Minor Procedure Skills course for HealthCert. He is also involved in training surgical registrars and is an examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

Dr Cheah speaks Chinese (Hokkien, Mandarin, Cantonese) and Malay/Indonesian. With a love for languages, he can converse some words in Farsi/Dari, Italian, French, Spanish and Arabic.

Expertise:

• Minimally invasive Inguinal Hernia Repair

• Sublay Ventralex ST Mesh Repair of Hernia on Anterior Abdominal Wall – Mini incision

• Colonoscopy & Banding of Haemorrhoids

• Gastroscopy, Pill Camera

• Minor Plastic Surgery – Skin cancer, Cyst, Lipoma

• Pilonidal Sinus Surgery – Mini excision

• Haemorrhoidectomy & Excision of perianal skin tags

• Carpal Tunnel Release

• Excision of Ganglion

• Dupuytren’s Fasciectomy & Z-plasties

• Vasectomy – Scalpel Free Technique

• Wedge Resection Ingrown Toenail

• Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

• Appendicectomy, Abscess, Anal Fistula

• Bowel obstruction, Bowel cancer

• Thyroidectomy

• Breast Surgery – Fibroadenoma, Breast cancer,

• Inverted Nipple surgery, Gynaecomastia

• Soft Tissue Tumour, Melanoma, Keloid

• Varicose vein, Haemangioma, Temporal artery biopsy

• Cryotherapy for Skin cancer & Solar keratoses

• Hyfrecator / Electrosurgery