Luke Chen

Biography

Dr Luke Chen is a highly qualified neurologist with subspecialty expertise in hearing and balance disorders, neuro-otology, neuro-opthalmology, eye movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, and has an interest in atypical parkinsonism. His undergraduate training in medicine was at the University of Melbourne and obtained his MBBS in 2003, followed by completion of basic physician training at the Austin Hospital in 2007. After completing core years of advanced training in neurology at the Alfred and Austin Hospital in Melbourne (2008-2009), he undertook a Fellowship in neuro-otology from 2010 to 2013 with Professor Michael Halmagyi and his group at the Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. This group, led by Professor Halmagyi, is internationally renowned for leading the field in clinical and academic neuro-otology. He was admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2011. In addition to consulting at the Hearing and Balance Clinic, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, he was also a neurologist at the Multiple Sclerosis Clinic and Sydney Neurology (both at the Brain and Mind Research Institute), working alongside Associate Professors Michael Barnett, Stephen Reddel and Professor John Pollard.

Research Interest

expert in managing dizziness, vertigo and hearing and balance problems, including vestibular migraine, benign positional vertigo, acute vestibular syndrome due to stroke or vestibular neuritis/labyrinthitis, Meniere’s disease, vestibular schwannoma, and superior semicircular canal dehiscence