Background

Wai Chung is a current MD candidate at Monash University School of Medicine and a researcher with an interest in critical care, infectious diseases, and public health.

Starting his research career in 2019, he is developing a growing track record of peer review publications on infectious diseases, public health prevention, addiction medicine, and critical care through qualitative and quantitative analysis methodology. He plans to pursue a PhD in infectious disease epidemiology.

Appointments

• 2021 – Present, Associate Editor of the Australian Medical Student Journal
• 2021 – Present, Committee Member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee Eastern Health
• 2019 – Present, Member of the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
• 2019 – Present, Member of the American College of Physicians
• 2019 – Present, Member of the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs
• 2019 – Present, Member of the Australian Medical Association

Positions

• 2020 – Present, Research Assistant, Burnet Institute Disease Elimination Program
• 2019 – Present, Student Research Fellow, Monash Addiction Research Centre
• 2019 – Present, Honorary Fellow, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
• 2020, Visiting Student Research Fellow, University of Auckland Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
• 2019, Research Scholar, Biomedicine Discovery Institute: Infection and Immunity

Qualifications

• 2019 – Present, MD Candidate – Monash University School of Medicine

Publications (7)

2022 (1)

• The Optimise Study: COVID-19 worry and perceptions about infection and potential severity. (PUBLiC HEALTH REPORT)
  Saich F, Tse WC, Heath K, Altermatt A, Merner B, Hill S, Jin D, Stoové M, Gibney K, Hellard M
  Optimise Study. 2022 Mar; Report 14(Mar):1-10

2021 (4)

• Changes in emergency department blood product use for major paediatric trauma following the implementation of a major haemorrhage protocol.
  Elliot Long, Amanda Williams, Franz E Babl, Anne Kinmonth, Wai Chung Tse, Cameron S Palmer, Gemma Crighton, Helen Savoia, Warwick J Teague, Kristin Bronnum Nystrup
  Emerg Med Australas. 2021 Dec; 33(6):966-974
• Haiti: An Ethnographic Study of the Effects of International Aid on Haitian Life
  Reinvention: an International Journal of Undergraduate Research
  Reinvention: an International Journal of Undergraduate Research. 2021 May; 14(1)
• Risk of major bleeding by ethnicity and socioeconomic deprivation among 488,107 people in primary care: a cohort study.
  Wai Chung Tse, Corina Grey, Matire Harwood, Rod Jackson, Andrew Kerr, Suneela Mehta, Katrina Poppe, Romana Pylypchuk, Sue Wells, Vanessa Selak
  BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2021 Apr; 21(1):206
• Febrile children in the Emergency Department: Frequency and predictors of poor outcome.
  Elliot Long, Tom Solan, David J Stephens, Luregn J Schlapbach, Amanda Williams, Wai Chung Tse, Franz E Babl
  Acta Paediatr. 2021 Mar; 110(3):1046-1055

2020 (2)

• Humanising medicine in the era of universal masking.
  Wai Chung Tse, Karin Leder, Michelle Leech
  Intern Med J. 2020 Oct; 50(10):1297
• Community pharmacy naloxone supply, before and after rescheduling as an over-the-counter drug: sales and prescriptions data, 2014-2018.
  Tse WC, Sanfilippo P, Lam T, Dietze P, Nielsen S
  Med J Aust. 2020 Mar; 212(7):314-320