Dr Terence Chong

Dr Terence Chong is a research fellow at the Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age at the Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne. He is involved in research around cognitive health and physical activity as well as anxiety, depression and the residential aged care setting.

Terry also practices as a psychiatrist at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and Epworth Healthcare. In 2017, he co-launched a new online weight management program called Medical and Mind Weight Loss. Terry teaches medical students in the Doctor of Medicine course and psychiatrists in training through the Master of Psychiatry course. He believes that it is important to increase community awareness of cognitive and mental health and has been supporting this aim by working with community and media organisations.