Dr Shamilah Lachal (Gastroenterologist)
- Name
- Dr Agnes Shamilah Lachal
- Qualifications
- FRACP
- MBBS 1993
- Occupation
- Gastroenterologist
- Gender
- Female
- Medical Specialties
- Gastroenterology
Dr.Lachal has been practising medicine for more than 15 years. She graduated in 1994 from Melbourne University with honours and became a fellow of the College of Physicians in 2002. She did basic physician training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital with advanced gastroenterology training at the Royal Melbourne and Western Hospital. She went on to do research in the area of bowel cancer and was awarded a PhD in 2006. Since then she has worked in clinical practice at the Western Hospital and the Broadmeadows Health Service where she has had extensive experience in performing gastroscopy and colonoscopy as well as working in general gastroenterology and hepatology including viral hepatitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
She is the mother of 3 children and believes strongly in the doctor patient partnership in achieving good health.
Dr Lachal’s areas of interest include Inflammatory bowel disease (Ulcerative Collitis/Crohn’s Disease), Irritable Bowel Syndrome, carbohydrate intolerance, coeliac disease, Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease, Hepatits B and C, alcohol related liver disease as well as community gastroenterology and hepatology.
- Hospital Affiliations
- Western Hospital - Footscray
- Broadmeadows Health Service
- Affiliated Clinics
- Bundoora Endoscopy
- GastroNorth
- The Victorian Gut Centre
- GastroNorth - Eltham
- GastroNorth - Kew
Practice Locations
VIC
- Bundoora Endoscopy
- Address
- 119 Plenty Road
Bundoora VIC 3083
Australia
- Phone
- 03 9466 8466
- Fax
- 03 9466 8455
- The Victorian Gut Centre
- Address
- 119 Plenty Road
Bundoora VIC 3083
Australia
- Phone
- 03 9466 8466
- Fax
- 03 9466 8455
- GastroNorth - Eltham
- Address
- 1185 Main Road
Eltham VIC 3095
Australia
- Phone
- 03 9468 9700
- Fax
- 03 9468 9701
- GastroNorth - Kew
- Address
- 209 Cotham Road
Kew VIC 3101
Australia
- Phone
- 03 9468 9700
- Fax
- 03 9468 9701
