Mr LP Cheah MBBS(Hons 1st) FRACS MRCS( England)

Dr LP Cheah is an experienced Specialist General Surgeon and Endoscopist who has performed over 25,000 procedures. He graduated from the University of Melbourne as the top medical student (winning 23 awards and prizes) and completed his surgical training in both England and Australia. He created Melbourne Surgery in 2006 when he became consultant. In the early years of his specialist practice, Dr Cheah was one of the busiest  general surgeon working in public hospitals in Victoria by case numbers. He has been consulting and operating at John Fawkner hospital as a Visiting Medical Office since 2007. 

His special interests are in minimally-invasive hernia repairs, colonoscopies(including haemorrhoid treatment at the same time), minor plastic surgery for skin cancer and pilonidal sinus surgery.

Dr Cheah is happy to see non-English speaking patients. He can also converse in Malay/Indonesian, Chinese(Hokkien, Mandarin,Cantonese) and some basic Farsi/Dari, Italian,Filipino & Spanish  

Making An Appointment

TELEHEALTH Consult
- please submit details online here:
(Appointment Request )
A referral letter from your GP is required. All telephone consults are bulk billed(usually on Tuesday evenings) - the referral letter needs to be faxed to 90699480.

Please ring the location to be seen directly for a face to face appointment. For John Fawkner Private Hospital - please ring 93852285. (Kim, Melissa or AnnMarie will usually ring you back for an appointment if calling when unattended). Please bring along all the relevant results of tests already performed(eg Ultrasound/CT films and copy of the radiology reports or blood test results). For patients who have seen Dr LP Cheah before, a new referral is needed if it has been more than 12 months since the date of the original referral letter. Interstate and overseas patients are welcome.

Special Interests

1. Hernia repairs using mini-incision without muscle paralysis - Inguinal , Umbilical, Laparoscopic port sites, Epigastric, Femoral(over 3000 +cases)
2. Minor Plastic Surgery - Skin cancers, Sebaceous Cyst, Lipoma,  soft tissue tumour, moles (8000+ cases)
3. Endoscopy - Colonoscopy & banding of haemorrhoids, Gastroscopy, Capsule Endoscopy(10 000 + scopes)
4. Pilonidal sinus surgery - using mini-incisions (600+ cases)
5. Haemorrhoids - Banding, Surgery, Ligation/Plication(2000+ cases)
6. Ingrown toenail - wedge resection(500+)
7. Vasectomy- scalpel free technique(400+)
8. Hand surgery - Carpal tunnel release, Ganglion, Dupuytren's contracture(500+)
9. General Surgery - Laparoscopic cholecystectomy, Appendicectomy, Breast Surgery(lump, breast cancer, inverted nipple, gynaecomastia), Thyroid Surgery, Bowel surgery, Anal fissure/fistula, Perianal abscess, Melanoma Surgery, Circumcision(1000+)