Rate My Professor James Lee

Adjunct Associate Professor James Lee is affiliated with the Department of Surgery (Alfred Hospital) at Monash University. He earned his medical degree from the University of Melbourne in 2001. Following general surgery training at Austin Hospital, he qualified as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in 2010. He then pursued subspecialty training in endocrine surgery at Austin Hospital, Melbourne, and Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, including the T.S. Reeve International Fellowship. In 2011, he participated in the invitation-only Endocrine Surgery University at the Mayo Clinic. In 2014, he completed his PhD at the University of Sydney on biomarkers of thyroid cancer.

Currently, A/Prof. Lee holds positions as Visiting Medical Officer in General and Endocrine Surgery at Alfred Hospital (since 2014) and Monash Health (since 2015). He leads thyroid cancer research efforts in Melbourne, emphasizing enhancements to patient experiences from diagnosis through post-surgical care. His research spans thyroid cancer, surgery, and endocrinology, with expertise in biomarkers and artificial intelligence for thyroid nodule diagnosis. With over 50 peer-reviewed publications and three book chapters, notable works include "Dynamic Ensemble Transfer Learning with Multi-view Ultrasonography for Improving Thyroid Cancer Diagnostic Reliability" (2025, Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine), "The impact of delayed diagnosis and treatment due to COVID-19 on Australian thyroid cancer patients: a qualitative interview study" (2024, BMJ Open), "Artificial Intelligence for Pre-operative Diagnosis of Malignant Thyroid Nodules Based on Sonographic Features and Cytology Category" (2023, World Journal of Surgery), and "How to do an ultrasound or computed tomography guided hook-wire localization excisional biopsy of non-palpable lymph nodes" (2023, ANZ Journal of Surgery). His research receives funding from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Senior Lecturer Fellowship, Epworth Research Institute, and The Aftershock Charitable Foundation. A/Prof. Lee has earned awards such as the Australian Postgraduate Award (2012) and various Royal Australasian College of Surgeons scholarships and prizes during his PhD. He contributes to surgical education as a mentor to research students—many of whom have secured conference prizes—and as a member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Court of Examiners.