Consultant Physician & Rheumatologist
Juan is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Physicians and is dual trained in Rheumatology and Clinical Pharmacology. Juan is a general rheumatologist, with a particular interest in inflammatory arthritis, crystal arthritis, soft tissue disorders and musculoskeletal medicine.
A graduate of Monash University, he has trained at Frankston Hospital, The Alfred Hospital and The Austin and Repatriation Hospital. Juan is also a Visiting Medical Officer at Peninsula Health and The Alfred Health, where he is part of the Rheumatology Unit. He is actively involved in teaching medical students and junior doctors in training. He is also involved in clinical research and clinical trials.
Juan is passionate about improving and providing rheumatology services to the Mornington Peninsula and the South Eastern regions of Victoria, through close collaboration with general practitioners, surgeons and fellow physicians.
Consultant Rheumatologist & Internal Medicine Physician
Dr Chang graduated from Otago University and completed his Rheumatology and General Medicine training in New Zealand. He practiced as a general physician and rheumatologist at National University Health Systems in Singapore before moving to Australia.
He aims to partner with each patient to provide holistic and individualised care. He is happy to see patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, systemic lupus erythematous (SLE), gout, ankylosing spondylitis and other rheumatological disorders.
Dr Chang can converse in English, Mandarin and Malay.
Consultant Physician & Rheumatologist
Dr Emily Ong (MBBS (Hons), BEng (Chemical), FRACP) obtained her medical degree at the University of Sydney and was trained in Rheumatology at The Alfred and Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne. She is currently a staff specialist in Rheumatology at The Alfred and Box Hill hospital.
Dr Ong has interests in several areas of adult Rheumatology, including inflammatory arthritis, connective tissue diseases, back pain and osteoarthritis. She is interested in women’s health in patients with rheumatic diseases. Emily is fluent in Mandarin and she values an emphatic approach to patient centred care.
Consultant Physician & Rheumatologist
Dr Huai Leng (Jessica) Pisaniello (MBBS, FRACP, PhD) graduated from the University of Adelaide Medical School, receiving the Australian Chinese Medical Association Prize for being the top student in her final year. After completing her Basic Physician Training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, she subspecialised in rheumatology, training in multiple hospitals in South Australia. Jessica completed her PhD (University of Adelaide), with a research focus on epidemiology and intensive longitudinal data analysis on musculoskeletal pain and rheumatoid arthritis and its impact on health-related outcomes. Jessica had the opportunity to undertake her early years of her PhD at the University of Manchester, as part of the Ken Muirden overseas fellowship awarded to her in 2018. She was awarded the Australian Rheumatology Association’s Young Investigator Award in 2020 having presented her UK-based PhD research work on day-to-day pain variability in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases. Jessica relocated from Adelaide to Mornington Peninsula in early 2023 with her family, as her husband works at the Peninsula Heart Centre as an interventional and structural cardiologist.
Jessica sees the full spectrum of rheumatological conditions. Apart from her clinical work, Jessica works as a part-time research fellow at the Monash University, continuing her research interests in long-term outcomes in arthritis and sustainability in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases. She is currently one of the Australian Adult Living Guideline panel members in developing evidence-based pharmacological management of inflammatory arthritis. She can converse in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Malay.
Registered Nurse
Robyn joined Peninsula Rheumatology in November, 2016. She commenced working with our team after 16 years as a research nurse at the Alfred Hospital. In her role at the Alfred, Robyn was responsible for coordinating clinical trials in heart failure; hypertension; heart transplant; and diabetes mellitus.
She has presented at an international conference on successful patient recruitment for research trials.
Robyn commenced her career in clinical research following nursing experience in coronary care, cardiology unit, post operative recovery room and general medicine at major metropolitan hospitals including the Alfred, the Mater in Sydney and the Royal Canberra Hospital.
Robyn has a Coronary Care Certificate.
