About Dr HB Lo
I’m a General Practitioner, Fellow of the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (FACRRM). Surrey Hills, Melbourne.
Before medicine I was a biomedical scientist — protein expression, cancer research. I trained in medicine at the University of Melbourne (MBBS 2008) on top of a Bachelor of Biomedical Science with Honours. The combination is unusual and it shapes how I practise: long form, evidence-led, suspicious of confident certainty.
How I practise
Long consultations. 45-60 minutes. There’s no way to do an integrative workup of a chronic presentation in 15 minutes and I don’t pretend otherwise.
Evidence-led, AU-tier first. Every recommendation traces to a primary source — RACGP guidelines, Therapeutic Guidelines (eTG), NHMRC, Australian Medicines Handbook, NPS MedicineWise, or a specialty college publication. When the Australian tier is silent, I lean on NICE, USPSTF, Cochrane, BMJ Best Practice, and the major specialty societies.
Integrative, not anti-medical. I take nutrition, sleep, movement, stress physiology, and environmental load seriously — alongside the conventional workup, not instead of it. If a patient needs a referral, a script, or a scan, that’s what I do.
Honest about uncertainty. Plenty of what I read about in functional and integrative medicine is genuinely interesting and genuinely under-researched. I’ll tell you which is which.
Credentials
- MBBS — University of Melbourne, 2008
- Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours) — University of Melbourne
- FACRRM — Fellow, Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
- AHPRA registration: MED0001212640 Verify on the public register
What I’m not
Not a specialist. Not a cosmetic physician. Not a guru. If you’re looking for a “doctor who’ll order any test you want” or a “doctor who agrees with my supplement stack” — that’s not what this practice is.
What I am here for
If you’ve felt rushed, dismissed, or told everything is normal when you know something isn’t — this practice was built for the conversation we should have had the first time.