Dr. Pyng Lee is a Consultant Pulmonologist in the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of Singapore General Hospital. She is competent in all aspects of pulmonary and critical care medicine, interventional bronchoscopy and pleuroscopy. Her training includes 1 year at the Cleveland Clinic (USA) where she worked under the tutelage of Dr Atul Mehta with focus on interventional pulmonology, lung tranplantation, advanced lung disease and pulmonary hypertension. This was followed by training at the University of California Irvine (USA), Universitat Llobret ( Barcelona, Spain ), Hiroshima City Hospital ( Japan ), Thoraxklinik ( Germany ) and Vjre University Medical Center ( Amsterdam, the Netherlands ) in medical thoracoscopy, rigid bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasonography, autofluorescence bronchoscopy as well as early lung cancer research.

Dr. Lee is the first author of several publications in peer-reviewed journals and has recently co-written a manual on pleural disease and pleuroscopy using the novel flex-rigid instrument. She also received the Young Investigator's award in 2000 for work in asthma to identify patients at risk for near-fatal events, and has several ongoing research grants. She has recently been awarded a 3-year grant by the National Medical Research Council to pursue her PhD in lung cancer.

Selected Publications

1. Lee P, Abisheganaden J, Chee CBE, Wang YT. A New Index that Predicts Near-fatal Asthma. Eur Respir J 2001; 18:272-278.
2. Lee P, Tai DYH. Clinical Features of Patients with Acute Organophosphate Poisoning requiring Intensive Care. Intensive Care Med 2001; 27:694-99.
3. Lee P, Mehta AC. Management of Obstructing Airway Lesions in Patients with Lung Cancer. PCCU (Chest) 2004; Volume 18:Lesson 5.
4. Lee P, Minai OA, Mehta AC, DeCamp M, Murthy S. Pulmonary Nodules in Lung Transplant Recipients: Etiology and Outcome. Chest 2004;125:165-172.
5. Lee P, Yap WS, Pek WY, Ng AWK. An Audit of Medical Thoracoscopy and Talc Poudrage for Pneumothorax Prevention in Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Chest 2004; 125:1315-1320. Editorial comment: Chest 2004; 125:1190-1192.
6. Lee P, Colt HG. Rigid and Semirigid Pleuroscopy: the Future is Bright. Respirology 2005; 10:418- 425.
7. Lee P, Ray SL, Colt HG. Survey of Pulmonologists' Perspectives on Thoracoscopy. J Bronchology 2003; 10:99-106.
8. Lee P, Colt HG. Using Diagnostic Thoracoscopy to Optimal Effect. J Crit Care Illn 2003; 18:244-251.
9. Lee P, Colt HG. Thoracoscopy: an update on therapeutic applications. J Respir Dis 2003; 24:530-535.
10. Lee P, Tamm M, Chhajed PN. Advances in Bronchoscopy: Therapeutic Bronchoscopy (invited). J Assoc Physicians India 2004; 52:905-914.
11. Chhajed PN, Lee P, Tamm M. Part II: New and Upcoming Bronchoscopic Methods at the Beginning of the 21st Century (invited). J Assoc Physicians India 2004; 52:970-974.

Book Chapters

1. Lee P, Kupeli E, Mehta AC. Therapeutic Bronchoscopy in Lung Cancer: Laser Therapy, Electrocautery Brachytherapy, Stents and Photodynamic Therapy. Clinics in Chest Medicine 2002; 23:241-256.
2. Lee P. Mehta AC. Flexible Bronchoscopy Training. Flexible Bronchoscopy 2 nd edition (Wang KP, Mehta AC, Turner JF, eds) In: Blackwell Science 2004; 45-50.
3. Lee P, Mehta AC. Therapeutic Flexible Bronchoscopy: An Overview. Interventional Pulmonary Medicine, Lung Biology in Health and Disease (Beamis, Mehta and Mathur, eds). In: Marcel and Dekker 2004; 49-87.
4. Lee P, Colt HG. Flex-Rigid Pleuroscopy, Step by Step (Lee, Colt, eds). In CMPMedica Asia 2005.