Dr. Lee Way Seah

Biography

Professor Lee Way Seah read medicine at Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, and graduated in 1988. He received paediatric training at the Paediatric Unit, Penang General Hospital, Penang. After passing the MRCP (Paediatrics) examination in February 1993, he worked in various hospitals in London, United Kingdom. He was trained in paediatric gastroenterology and hepatology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London and at The Liver Unit, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, United Kingdom, respectively. Professor joined the Department of Paediatrics, University Malaya in 1996. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999 and Professor in 2006. He received a Doctorate in Medicine (M. D.) from University of Malaya in 2007, based on his research on neonatal cholestatic jaundice in Malaysian infants. Professoe Lee is the Head of Department at Department of paediatrics at Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya since July 2011. He is a senior consultant paediatric gastroenterologist and hepatologist at University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur. He is also a Commonwealth Scholar and a Fulbright Scholar. His current research interests include epidemiology and economic impact of childhood rotavirus infection and other gastrointestinal infections, chronic diarrhea, neonatal cholestasis and biliary atresia, stool microbiota in various disease states, incluing childhood inflammatory bowel disease. To date, Professor Lee has more than 80 publications in international and local medical journals, and presented 80 abstracts in both local and international scientific meeting. He has been invited to deliver more than 50 lectures in international and local scientific meetings since 2007. He is the editor of a `Handbook of Hospital Paediatrics’, which is highly popular among local medical students and paediatric trainees. Professor Lee was the President of College of Paediatrics, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia as well as council member, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia from 2007 to 2012.

Research Interest

Paediatrics (Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition)