Teaching faculty
Dr Kevin Lee is a fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeon whose sub-speciality interests are in hip and knee replacements and his other orthopaedic interests are in sports injuries of the lower limb and cartilage repair of the knee using stem cells and other techniques.
Dr Lee has been in clinical practice since 1996 when he completed his medical degree at the National University of Singapore. He underwent sub-speciality training at the Arthritis/ Hip & Knee Replacement Division, Stanford University, USA. There, he was trained in complex hip and knee replacement procedures and was involved in both clinical and basic science research on joint replacements, biomaterials and stem cell therapeutics in orthopaedics.
Dr Lee is also a consultant for Zimmer Inc., one of the largest orthopaedic implant and biomaterials company in the world and is involved in training both local and regional surgeons in joint replacement procedures.
Dr Lee is actively involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate. Dr Lee has an active research interest, both in clinical research involving total joint replacements and sports injuries, and also the role of stem cells in orthopaedic surgery. He is the only orthopaedic surgeon in history to have won both the Singapore Orthopaedic Association Young Investigator Award for his work on mesenchymal stem cells and cartilage repair in the knee and also the N Balachandran Award in the same year (2005). In 2009, he mentored his trainee to win the Young Orthopaedic Investigator Award for a second time.
Dr Lee has been in clinical practice since 1996 when he completed his medical degree at the National University of Singapore. He underwent sub-speciality training at the Arthritis/ Hip & Knee Replacement Division, Stanford University, USA. There, he was trained in complex hip and knee replacement procedures and was involved in both clinical and basic science research on joint replacements, biomaterials and stem cell therapeutics in orthopaedics.
Dr Lee is also a consultant for Zimmer Inc., one of the largest orthopaedic implant and biomaterials company in the world and is involved in training both local and regional surgeons in joint replacement procedures.
Dr Lee is actively involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate. Dr Lee has an active research interest, both in clinical research involving total joint replacements and sports injuries, and also the role of stem cells in orthopaedic surgery. He is the only orthopaedic surgeon in history to have won both the Singapore Orthopaedic Association Young Investigator Award for his work on mesenchymal stem cells and cartilage repair in the knee and also the N Balachandran Award in the same year (2005). In 2009, he mentored his trainee to win the Young Orthopaedic Investigator Award for a second time.