Hew Fen Lee

Dr Hew has been working as an endocrinologist since 1996. He qualified from medicine in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1987 for which he was awarded MBBS degree. While he was a student, he was awarded the Special Project Award for his research work on autoimmune thyroid disease in 1986. In 1992, he obtained the physician qualification with an MRCP(UK) post graduate diploma. He was working in the UK until 1992 in various hospitals while undergoing his physician training. He then joined the St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia in 1992 where he was trained as an endocrinologist. He obtained his Australian post graduate Physician Fellowship qualification FRACP in 1996. He was the recipient of the National Australian Postgraduate Scholarship and The Novo Nordisk Scholarship from the University of Melbourne while he was the Research Fellow in the University of Melbourne.

He was awarded the Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1997 for his work on ‘Glucose and lipid metabolism in growth hormone deficient adults and the effect of growth hormone replacement’. He returned to Malaysia in 1996 where he was the Lecturer in the Department of Medicine, University of Malaya. While he was in University of Malaya, he was actively involved in medical research involving in more than 12 studies. He founded the Lipid Research Laboratory for which he was the head. He supervised several Master students and a Doctorate student. He was awarded the Anugerah Perkhidmatan (Melintang) in 1999. In the same year, he was promoted to Associate Professor of the Department of Medicine. In 2002, he left University of Malaya to join the Subang Jaya Medical Centre, presently known as the Sime Darby Medical Centre.