Associate Professor Lee is a Nuclear Medicine Physician at Austin Health in Melbourne, with extensive nuclear medicine expertise and is very highly regarded in the nuclear medicine community.
She holds a Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery from Monash University and is also a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Australasian Association of Nuclear Medicine Specialists and the Asian Nuclear Medicine Board. Her current positions include Deputy Medical Director and Director of Training, Department of Molecular Imaging & Therapy at Austin Health; Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Department of Surgery at the University of Melbourne; Associate Professor at the School of Cancer Medicine, La Trobe University; and Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute.
Associate Professor Lee is also involved in a number of committees – she is the current President of the Australasian Association of Nuclear Medicine Specialists (AANMS); Council Member, Adult Medicine Division, Royal Australasian College of Physicians; on the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine; Committee Member and OTP Assessor, Committee for Joint College Training (CJCT); and Deputy Chair, International Relations Committee, Australia and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine (ANZSNM). She was also Past President of the ANZSNM, and previous Secretary-General of the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology (WFNMB).
In 2008, she was awarded ANSTO’s Nuclear Medicine award for significant innovation in research or clinical practice in the field of Nuclear Medicine: Non-invasive evaluation of hypoxia using 18F-FMISO PET in liver metastasis from colorectal carcinoma, which was part of her PhD in Nuclear Medicine, obtained through the University of Melbourne.
Appointed 20 July 2023