Dr. Lee is a specialist in infectious diseases. He joined CUHK as an associate professor in 2005. He is currently the Head of Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics at the Prince of Wales Hospital. His division provides clinical services, coordinates the utilization of isolation facilities, and participates in the hospital’s antibiotics stewardship program, infection control activities and outbreak management. He also serves in various local advisory boards, editorial boards, and councils of professional organizations.

Dr Lee has published over 80 research articles and book chapters. He has received Distinguished Research Paper Award for Young Investigators from the Hong Kong College of Physicians in 2003 and 2008, and the degree of Doctor of Medicine (CUHK) in 2007. His thesis was titled “SARS—from diagnosis to clinical management.”

Journal or Magazine Article

• Ng TC, Lee N*, Hui DS, Lai R, Ip M . Preventing influenza among health-care workers: masks alone are not
  enough. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2009;30(3):292-5. [corresponding author]
• Lee N, Ip M, Wong B, Lui G, Tsang OT, Lai JY, Choi KW, Lam R, Ng TK, Ho J, Chan YY, Cockram CS, Lai
  ST. Risk Factors Associated with Life-threatening Rickettsial Infections. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008;78(6):973-978
• Lee N, Cockram CS, Chan PK, Hui DS, Choi KW, Sung JJ. Antiviral treatment for patients hospitalized with
  severe influenza infection may affect clinical outcomes. Clin Infect Dis 2008;46(8):1323-1324.
• Lee N, Chan MC, Wong B, Choi KW, Sin W, Lui G, Chan PKS, Lai R, Cockram CS, Sung JJY, Leung WK.
  High fecal viral concentration is associated with prolonged diarrhea in norovirus (genogroup II.4) gastroenteritis. Emerg Infect Dis 2007;13:1399-1401.
• Lee N, Wong CK, Chan PKS, Lun SWM, Lui G, Wong B, Hui DSC, Lam CWK, Cockram CS, Choi KW, Yeung ACM, Tang JW, Sung JJY. Hypercytokinemia and Hyperactivation of phospho-p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase in Severe Human Influenza A Infections. Clin Infect Dis 2007;45:723-731.
• Lee N, Chan PKS, Choi KW, Lui G, Wong B, Cockram CS, Hui DSC, Lai R, Tang JW, Sung JJY. Factors
  associated with early hospital discharge of adult influenza patients. Antiviral Therapy 2007;12:501-8.
• Man SY, Lee N, Ip M, Antonio GE, Chau SS, Mak P, Graham CA, Zhang M, Lui G, Chan PK, Ahuja AT, Hui
  DS, Sung JJ, Rainer TH. Prospective comparison of three predictive rules for assessing severity of community acquired pneumonia in Hong Kong. Thorax 2007;62:348-353.
• Lee N, Chan PK, Ip M, Wong E, Ho J, Ho C, Cockram CS, Hui DS. Anti-SARS-CoV IgG Response in Relation
  to Disease Severity of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. J Clin Virol 2006;35(2):179-84.
• Hui DS, Wong KT, Antonio GE, Lee N, Wu A, Wong V, Lau W, Wu JC, Tam LS, Yu LM, Joynt GM, Chung
  SS, Ahuja AT, Sung JJ. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Correlation between Clinical Outcome and Radiologic Features. Radiology 2004;233(2):579-585.
• Lee N, Chan KC, Hui DS, Ng EK, Wu A, Chiu RW, Wong VW, Chan PK, Wong KT, Wong E, Cockram CS,
  Tam JS, Sung JJ, Lo YM. Effects of early corticosteroid treatment on plasma SARS-associated coronavirus RNA concentrations in adult patients. J Clini Virol 2004;31:304-309.
• Rainer TH, Chan PK, Ip M, Lee N, Hui DS, Smit D, Wu A, Ahuja AT, Tam JS, Sung JJ, Cameron P. The
  spectrum of severe acute respiratory syndrome- associated coronavirus infection. Ann Intern Med 2004;140(8):614-619
• Wong RS, Wu A, To KF, Lee N, Lam CW, Wong CK, Chan PK, Ng MH, Yu LM, Hui DS, Tam JS, Cheng G,
  Sung JJ. Haematological Manifestations in Patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: Retrospective Analysis. BMJ 2003;326(7403):1358-1362.
• Lee N, Hui D, Wu A, Chan P, Cameron P, Joynt GM, Ahuja A, Yung MY, Leung CB, To KF, Lui SF, Szeto
  CC, Chung S, Sung JJ. A major outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong. New Engl J Med 2003;348:1986-94.
• Lee N, Hogg RS, Yip B, Harrigan PR, Harris M, O'Shaughnessy MV, Montaner JS. Rates of disease
  progression among human immunodeficiency virus-infected persons initiating multiple-drug rescue therapy. Journal of Infect Dis 2003;188(1):137-141.

Book Article or Chapter

• Nelson Lee, Eric CC Leung, CM Tam. Tuberculosis in HIV/AIDS; Nelson Lee, and Ian CT Tse. Herpes simplex
  and zoster in HIV/AIDS. HIV Manual 2007 (CEID & CHP,HKSAR).
• N Lee and WK Leung. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – from Bench to Bedside. Clinical Presentations
  and Manifestations of SARS (Chapter 4). World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, 2004.
• N Lee and JJY Sung. Imaging in SARS: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak in a University Hospital
  in Hong Kong (Chapter 3). Greenwich Medical Media Limited (GMM), 2004.