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Dr  Lee Chee Meng

Dr Lee Chee Meng

MBBS (S'pore), MRCS (Ireland), MMed (S'pore), FRCS (Edinburgh)

Consultant

Sengkang General Hospital

Specialty: General Surgery, Breast Surgery

Clinical Interest: Breast Surgery, Trauma Surgery

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
3D-breast Tomosynthesis, Atypical Hyperplasia, Benign Breast Change and Symptoms, Benign Breast Diseases, Benign Breast Neoplasms, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer - Early Detection and Screening, Breast Cancer (Breast Health), Breast Cancer (Diagnosis to Treatment), Breast Clinical Assessment, Breast Infection, Breast Lumps, Breast Radiological Evaluation, Breast Reconstruction, Breast Screening – Self-Exam and Mammogram, Breast Surgery, Duct Ectasia, Fibroadenoma, Fibrocystic Change, Gynaecomastia, Hereditary Breast Cancer Syndromes, High Risk Breast Changes, Intraductal Papillomas, Lobular Carcinoma in Situ, Mastitis.

Clinical Appointments

  • Consultant SingHealth Duke-NUS Breast Centre
  • Consultant Department of Surgery Sengkang General HospitalSengkang General Hospital
  • Consultant Breast Service Sengkang General HospitalSengkang General Hospital

Profile

​Dr Lee Chee Meng is a Consultant in the  Breast Service and Trauma Service in the Department of Surgery, Sengkang General Hospital. He is also part of the Singhealth-Duke NUS Breast Centre.

Dr Lee graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2009, and received his formal general surgery training under the SingHealth General Surgery Residency Program.
He completed his membership examination with the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (Surgery) in 2011 and obtained the Master of Medicine (Surgery) from the National University of Singapore in 2019.
He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (General Surgery) in 2020.

Dr Lee served in the Singapore Armed Forces as a military medical officer from 2010 to 2024. Throughout the past 15 years, he helmed multiple leadership appointments and participated in numerous overseas exercises. He has vast experience in doctrine, training, healthcare policies and military medicine capability development, and last served as Deputy Chief Army Medical Officer prior to his transition into a full-time clinical career.

Heavily involved in medical student and residency education, Dr Lee serves as a clinical tutor and mentor with Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Duke-NUS Medical School, and post-graduate training programmes. 

Dr Lee practices at Sengkang General Hospital's department of General Surgery and specialises in Breast Surgery and Trauma Surgery. The treatment of elderly women with breast cancer is a key interest area for Dr Lee, as the proportion of elderly patient presenting with cancer increases with the improving life expectancy of women in Singapore. He believes that age should not be a determinant of fitness for surgery and cancer treatment, and treatment outcomes in elderly patients can be just as good as their younger counterparts. Dr Lee also has a special interest in the field of Trauma and is committed to the care of polytrauma patients.

Education

  • MBBS (NUS, Singapore)
  • MRCS (Ireland)
  • MMed (Surgery, Singapore)
  • FRCS (Edinburgh, UK)

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

  • Director, Trauma Service, Sengkang General Hospital
  • ​Member, Central Region Trauma Service (CRTS), Singapore
  • Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
  • Instructor, Advance Trauma Life Support Course, Singapore
  • Clinical Tutor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
  • Clinical Instructor, Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore

Awards

  • COVID-19 Resilience Medal (CRM) (2023)
  • Commendation Medal (COVID-19) (2023)
  • Residency in SingHealth Excels (RiSE) Awards 2019/2020 – Outstanding Faculty Award
  • NUS Dean’s Office Junior Doctor Teaching Award (2019)
  • Benjamin Chew Silver Medal for Medical Ethics, NUS (2009)

Research Interests

Publications

​Lee CM, Cheong KX, S Kesavan, Teo CCM. Extramammary Paget’s Disease in an Asian Population: A Single Centre’s Experience. Austral-Asian Journal of Cancer, Jan 14, 13 (1): 21-30

Lee CM, Sim A, Kurugulasigamoney G, Ng LG. Heart failure as the first manifestation of renal cell carcinoma. Korean Journal of Urology. 2015;56(1):82-85.

Koh YX, Tay TK, Xu S, Lee CM, Teo MC. A clinical series and literature review of the management of inguinal nodal metastases in patients with primary extramammary Paget disease of the scrotum. Asian J Surg. 2015 Jan;38(1):40-6.

Lee CM, Tan KMV, Tan KTB, et al. Perioperative Outcomes of Therapeutic Breast Surgery in the Elderly. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 2016 Jun;45(6):261-3

Lee CM, Zheng H, Tan VK, et al. Surgery for early breast cancer in the extremely elderly leads to improved outcomes - An Asian population study. Breast. 2017 Dec;36:44-48.

Research Trials