Michael J. Lee
FRCPI, FRCR, FFR(RCSI), EBIR, FSIR
Biography :
Professor Lee completed his radiology residency in Ireland. He completed his IR & Abdominal Imaging Fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School. He returned to Ireland in 1995 as professor of Radiology at the Medical School of the
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Consultant Interventional Radiologist at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.
Professor Lee has been president of the International Society of Hepato-Biliary and Pancreatic
Diseases. He was the President of CIRSE in 2011-2013. He is also the secretary of the IR division at
UEMS. He is on the editorial board of many journals, including CVIR and is the European editor of
Seminars in Interventional Radiology. He is a Fellow of both CIRSE and SIR and obtained the EBIR
in 2010. He is an honorary fellow of the Chinese Society of Interventional Radiology (CSIR), the
Interventional Radiology Society of Australasia (IRSA), the Hellenic Society of IR and the Czech
Society of IR. During his tenure with CIRSE he was instrumental in bringing the patient safety
agenda into focus, brought dedicated educationalist experience to the EBIR and negotiated the
acceptance of the EBIR and IR curriculum with both IRSA and RANZCR in Australia and New
Zealand.
