Dr. Yu-Mei Cheng

About

Dr. Yu-Mei Cheng is the surgeon on Gratia Medical Centre’s women’s health team. Her practice is general and breast surgery: assessing breast and body-surface lumps, taking biopsies to establish what they are, and removing lesions that need surgery. She is not a fertility specialist, but her presence means a patient who finds a breast or surgical problem during a fertility or gynaecological work-up can be handled inside the same clinic rather than sent elsewhere.

She brings a full surgical credential set. Dr. Cheng earned her MBBS at the University of Hong Kong and is a Member and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Surgeons, and a Fellow of the Academy of Surgery at the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine — the qualifications of a Hong Kong specialist surgeon, with particular experience in breast and soft-tissue procedures.

Beyond clinical work she teaches: she holds Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor appointments in the Department of Surgery at both the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, keeping close links with academic surgery at the two medical schools.

Clinical Expertise

• Breast surgery: She assesses breast lumps, nodules and imaging findings, offers needle or excisional biopsy to establish a diagnosis, and performs surgery where a lesion needs removal.
• General surgery: She manages superficial lumps, subcutaneous nodules and common general-surgical problems, judging whether excision is needed and carrying it out to standard.
• Lump excision and pathology biopsy: Suspicious lesions can be removed whole in a clinic or theatre setting and sent for pathology, giving the evidence a treatment plan depends on.
• Surgical support within women’s health: As the team’s surgeon, she provides the referral link between surgical findings and the gynaecology and fertility specialists down the corridor.

Why Choose Dr. Cheng

Dr. Cheng completes a gap that many fertility-focused clinics leave open — surgery. Women trying to conceive, or in a gynaecology clinic, often turn up a breast or body-surface lump at the same time; having a breast and general surgeon in the centre means that problem is assessed and treated without a separate outside referral.

Her credentials are those of a trained specialist surgeon: a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of the Hong Kong College of Surgeons, with honorary clinical teaching posts at both HKU and CUHK. That academic and surgical grounding supports careful, standard-compliant handling of breast and soft-tissue lesions.

For patients who value a firm diagnosis before treatment, she can obtain pathology through excision and biopsy, clarifying what a suspicious lump actually is — so the next step is planned on evidence rather than guesswork.

Professional Affiliations

Dr. Cheng holds an MBBS from the University of Hong Kong. She is a Member and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Surgeons, and a Fellow of the Academy of Surgery at the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine — the specialist qualification covering general and breast surgery in Hong Kong.

Suitable For

• Women who find a breast lump: If self-exam or a check-up reveals a lump, nodule or imaging abnormality, she provides specialist assessment and biopsy to establish what it is.
• Patients with superficial lumps: Subcutaneous nodules and general-surgical problems can be assessed and, where needed, excised.
• Anyone needing a tissue diagnosis: For lesions of uncertain nature, excision or needle biopsy yields the pathology result that guides treatment.
• Women wanting one-stop care: If you’d like gynaecology, fertility and surgical assessment under one roof, she adds the surgical piece to the clinic’s women’s health team.