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Dr Lai Heng Foong
Emergency Senior Staff Specialist - Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital
Professional Bio
Dr Foong is a Senior Emergency Staff Specialist based in Sydney who has a passion for Public Health and Disaster preparedness including COVID-19 preparedness, Climate change and health impacts, Indigenous Health, Domestic Violence advocacy and the social determinants of health. She has additional training in Public Health, having obtained a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD, USA and is also a Sexual Assault/Forensic Examiner. She is a champion for Indigenous health and health equity and recently her ED won the Al Spilman Cultural Safety Award and the Diversity and Inclusion Award from Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM). She was the Chair of the Expert Advisory Group to create ACEM’s modules on Cultural Competency. She champions Diversity and Inclusion through the Anti Racism and Discrimination Committee in her Local Health District (LHD) and through education, advocacy and leadership in this space.
Dr Foong has been active in Climate Advocacy for the last few years. She was a key contributor for the Environmental Strategy and Environmental Action Plan for ACEM. She is a member of Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) and the Sustainability Lead in heer Emergency Deparment (ED). She is working on Climate Action at various levels of society, including community, workplace and advovacy at State and Federal level of government.
She is currently the Chair of the Public Health and Disaster Committee of ACEM, and a member of the Indigenous Health Committee. She was the Clinical Lead of the NSW ED Community of Practice (CoP) in Covid-19 Response and led the response in Emergency Departments in New South Wales during the COVID-19 Pandemic and is now a Co-chair of the Emergency Care Institute (ECI) CoP. She is a thought leader in domestic violence advocacy.
She is a Senior Conjoint Lecturer at the University of New South Wales and Western Sydney University. She has published papers on COVID-19 pandemic preparedness and impact, Climate change and health, Anti-racism in medicine in peer-reviewed journals. She has worked with humanitarian agencies including Medcines Sans Frontiers and American Red Cross. She has also travelled to Vietnam, Pakistan, Cuba, Sri Lanka to teach emergency medicine. She studied Philosophy before medicine, and loves philosophical discussions and can now combine both by being part of the Clinical Ethics Committee of her LHD.
She is a mother of two beautiful children, two cats and a dog and loves travelling with her children to different locations in the world, exploring cultures, sights and food. Her hobbies include cooking, reading travelling, art (especially Indigenous Art) and music.
Dr Foong has been active in Climate Advocacy for the last few years. She was a key contributor for the Environmental Strategy and Environmental Action Plan for ACEM. She is a member of Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) and the Sustainability Lead in heer Emergency Deparment (ED). She is working on Climate Action at various levels of society, including community, workplace and advovacy at State and Federal level of government.
She is currently the Chair of the Public Health and Disaster Committee of ACEM, and a member of the Indigenous Health Committee. She was the Clinical Lead of the NSW ED Community of Practice (CoP) in Covid-19 Response and led the response in Emergency Departments in New South Wales during the COVID-19 Pandemic and is now a Co-chair of the Emergency Care Institute (ECI) CoP. She is a thought leader in domestic violence advocacy.
She is a Senior Conjoint Lecturer at the University of New South Wales and Western Sydney University. She has published papers on COVID-19 pandemic preparedness and impact, Climate change and health, Anti-racism in medicine in peer-reviewed journals. She has worked with humanitarian agencies including Medcines Sans Frontiers and American Red Cross. She has also travelled to Vietnam, Pakistan, Cuba, Sri Lanka to teach emergency medicine. She studied Philosophy before medicine, and loves philosophical discussions and can now combine both by being part of the Clinical Ethics Committee of her LHD.
She is a mother of two beautiful children, two cats and a dog and loves travelling with her children to different locations in the world, exploring cultures, sights and food. Her hobbies include cooking, reading travelling, art (especially Indigenous Art) and music.