Cheng-Daryl

A/Prof Daryl Cheng

Consultant Paediatrician; Medical Executive Leader; Clinical Informatician, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne; Head, Paediatrics, Cabrini Health; Chief Medical Officer, Magentus
Associate Professor Daryl Cheng is a medical executive leader and digital health consultant. He is a practicing consultant paediatrician and clinical informatician at The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne (RCH) and Head of Paediatrics, Cabrini Health. He holds clinical research and educational posts as Honorary Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and Honorary Principal Fellow at the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne.He is engaged in systems thinking, innovation and design work through appointments at the Melbourne Children’s Campus Centre for Health Analytics (CHA) and RCH Digital Innovation & EMR Team. He has a keen public health and policy interest as evidenced by previous roles with Safer Care Victoria, Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Vaccination in the Community (SAEFVIC) and Melbourne Vaccine Education Centre (MVEC).A/Prof Cheng is an active in the digital, data, technology and innovation spaces. He is the Chief Medical Officer of Magentus, a global health technology company with a focus on practice management and health informatics. He is a sought-after medical advisor and consultant for healthcare and technology startups and private sector companies on strategic projects ranging from digital health, data analytics and strategy and transformation.Outside of clinical medicine, A/Prof Cheng holds various committee and council roles at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) and is a committee member and advisor in a range of government and private sector agencies and working groups. He is a non-executive board director of Adventist Healthcare Limited (AHCL) and Tweddle Child and Family Health Service.

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