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 completed a clinical fellowship in HIV/AIDS research at St. Paul's Hospital through the University of British Columbia in 2001-2002.

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

Lee became a registered physician with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta in 2017.

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

Lee has been a member of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)'s guidelines committee for influenza management since 2020.²⁾

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 also served on the Serology Advisory Group and Antimicrobial Management Working Group for AHS in 2020 and 2021, and participated on a Health Canada Technical Advisory Committee on COVID-19 and antivirals.³⁾

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.⁴⁾

Lee's research interests include emerging infectious diseases, pandemics, epidemics, coronaviruses, influenza viruses, RSV, pneumonia, clinical epidemiology, disease burden, health outcomes, transmission modes & prevention, antiviral & vaccine effectiveness, and clinical trials.⁵⁾

Lee is a member of the board for the International Society of Influenza and Respiratory Viruses (ISIRV). He is a member of the College of Reviewers for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).⁶⁾ He has also acted as a consultant for the World Health Organization.