Nelson Lee

Dr. Nelson Lee, MD, MB.BS., MRCP(UK), FRCP(Lond), FRCP(Edin), FIDSA is a Chinese-Canadian infectious diseases researcher based in Edmonton, Alberta.

Lee holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Hong Kong.

He conducted research and completed his MD at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a certified member of the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom. He holds fellowships from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Royal College of Physicians of London, Hong Kong College of Physicians, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Lee is a registered physician with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.

From 2014-2017, Lee completed an endowed professorship in infectious diseases at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Lee joined the faculty at the University of Alberta's Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases in 2018.¹⁾

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Lee participated as an infectious disease specialist on the AHS COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Group under Alberta Health Services.

He departed the University of Alberta in July 2021 to begin a position as Professor and Interim Director of the new Institute for Pandemics at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health.²⁾