Associate Professor Timothy Lee graduated with honours in both medicine and surgery from University of Melbourne in 1981. He obtained FRCS (Edinburgh) in 1986 and FRCS (Surgical Neurology) in 1990.

He joined the National University Hospital, Singapore in 1985. From 1987-1990 he did his neurosurgical residency at Oxford. Upon return to Singapore, he formed and headed the division of Neurosurgery since 1990.

He is now Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Gleneagles Hospital and Mount Alvernia Hospital as well as Visiting Consultant at National University Hospital and National Neuroscience Institute. He is currently Co-ordinator of the Mount Alvernia Brain Centre and was formerly Director of the Vascular Programmme at NNI.

He has published 40 articles in mostly international journals, including a first author publication in Lancet, one of the top medical journal in the world. He has been invited to operate in Indonesia, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City and Christchurch, New Zealand. He has organized several workshops for training of younger neurosurgeons and received the ¡°Star Award¡± and ¡°Lend a Helping Hand¡± awards from NUH. He has a special interest in brain tumour, stroke and head injury.