Dr Malcolm C-Ong
Senior Medical Practitioner Special Interest in Multi-disciplinary Pain management, Occupational & Environmental Medicine and Accident and Emergency & Trauma Medicine
MBBS(Hons), BMedSc, FSCEMS, FRCPFFOEM, FRANZCUCM, MACCAEP(MA)
Clinics: St Albans, Hoppers Crossing, Geelong
Malcolm joined the team in 2012 and brings high level knowledge, experience and skills in the management of acute, sub-acute and chronic conditions including injuries and traumas as well as complex persistent pain. He trained at Monash University in 1989 and graduated with honours before doing further postgraduate training in various disciplines, both locally and abroad. He provides medical services in Occupational and Environmental Medicine and specialises in WorkSafe/TAC/RTW. He has special interest in medico-legal practitioner cases and acute workplace injuries. He also consults as one of the Pain Management and Rehabilitation Multidisciplinary Program team’s senior medical clinicians for Advance Healthcare.
Malcolm also does extensive work in various tertiary, base and peripheral hospital Emergency Departments in Accident and Emergency & Trauma Medicine, with his experience in over 40 hospitals around Australia, and performs Emergency Retrieval Services for several institutions. His past and present appointments include Expert Witness code for Victorian and South Australian Law courts, teaching and lecturing at University of Singapore and SGH / Raffles Hospital in his capacity as Associate Professor and Research Fellow. He has added interest in Preventative Medicine and Health Promotion and is assisting the development and implementation of such colleges in South East Asia, for the betterment of future medicine in third world and developing countries.
Outside medicine, Malcolm has a keen interest and participation in co-curricular activities including Life Surfing Torquay, Canadian Swim Team, Squash Racquets Association of Malaysia, cultures & arts, political history, interior design architecture, travel and epicure. Malcolm describes himself as competent, diligent, caring and approachable, and down to earth and believes a good sense of humour is the best medicine of all.
Malcolm speaks fluent Cantonese
Mr Shay McLeod
Physiotherapist
BPhysio, GradCertSportsPhysio
Clinic: Hoppers Crossing
Shay McLeod graduated with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy from The University of Otago in 1999. Since this time he has worked extensively in private practice originally in New Zealand, followed by a three year period in the United Kingdom and now at Advance Healthcare and Symmetry Physiotherapy and Sports Medicine.
His special areas of interest include sports and spinal rehabilitation, and he is part of the Advance Healthcare Pain Management Team. He has completed post-graduate studies in Sports Physiotherapy at La Trobe University in 2006 and has worked as team physiotherapist for the Pirates Rugby Union Club in New Zealand and has spent time based at Crystal Palace Sports Injury Centre; the headquarters of London athletics. He has also been a guest writer for 'The Ski Mag', an Australian Ski Magazine, providing performance exercise programs.
Shay has kept busy through his involvement in clinical research. He has been a treating therapist as part of a very successful series of La Trobe University studies on the treatment of low back pain, and is now a treating therapist in a Melbourne University trial on hip pain.
Outside of work Shay still finds time for his family and participating in his own Sport. He enjoys the challenge of endurance sport, previously racing the Multisport World Championships across the southern alps of New Zealand and was recently rapt to break the 10 hour mark in Ironman Melbourne.
James Cunningham
Physiotherapist
BPhysio
Clinics: Bundoora, Hoppers Crossing
James Cunningham is a New Zealand trained physiotherapist from Auckland University Of Technology. He started his physiotherapy career after spending most of his life working in gyms, sports teams and health care clinics around the world.
Since then he has had experience in sports clinics, strength and conditioning, occupational health and multidisciplinary medical clinics throughout New Zealand and Australia. He has since followed a active and holistic approach to assessment and treatment throughout his career. During the past 3 years he has started to have a strong interest in persistent pain and management and so has started to build his career around it as he finds it rewarding to help those most effected.
His interests outside of physiotherapy are cycling, stand up paddle boarding, camping, bike polo, ultimate Frisbee and disc golf. As he treats a number of triathletes in the past, he himself is looking at getting into the sport to understand it better.
Mathew Foreman
Physiotherapist
BPhysio, GradCertMuscPhysio
Clinics: Hoppers Crossing, St Albans
Mathew became a qualified physiotherapist after completing his undergraduate studies in 2011 and has worked in private practice in Melbourne treating a variety of musculoskeletal and sports injury conditions since then.
Mathew Completed post graduate studies in musculoskeletal physiotherapy in 2016 and has developed a keen interest in the evidence based treatment of low back pain, neck pain and headaches. Mathew began working with Advance healthcare in March 2017 and is part of Advance Health Care’s multidisciplinary pain management teams in Hoppers Crossing and St Albans. Mathew’s interests outside of Physiotherapy include Aussie rules Football and cricket.
Hema Navaratnam
Psychologist
BPsych, MPsych(Couns), MAPS
Clinics: Hoppers Crossing, Geelong
Hema is a Registered Psychologist and has worked in various health care settings including hospital, research and private practice. Having worked in a variety of areas including cardiac, respiratory, oncology and neurology, she has now developed an interest in persistent pain. Hema has clinical skills in assessing, managing and treating a wide range of mental health problems combined with a strong patient centred approach. She commenced working with Advance Healthcare in 2016.
Alison Crotty
Psychologist
MHealthPsych
Clinics: Hoppers Crossing, Geelong
Alison’s professional background includes teaching, and health and safety in the manufacturing and welfare sectors. She holds a Masters degree in Health Psychology from Monash University. This was where her interest in chronic pain began, with a thesis on the relationship between self-efficacy and chronic pain in a rural population. Alison ran her own generalist psychology practice in East Gippsland for six years, sharing her expertise in pain management with as many local practitioners and clients as possible. Most recently, Alison has worked in a multidisciplinary pain clinic with clients with severe, long-term chronic pain. Alison started working at Advance Healthcare in 2020