Associate Professor Lee Pyng

Senior Consultant, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, NUH Associate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS

Associate Professor Lee Pyng is competent in pulmonary and critical care medicine, interventional bronchoscopy and pleuroscopy. Her training included attachments at the Cleveland Clinic, University of California Irvine, Universitat Llobret, Hiroshima City Hospital, Thoraxklinik and Vijre University Medical Center in interventional bronchoscopy, pleuroscopy, endobronchial ultrasonography and autofluorescence bronchoscopy. She is the current President of Singapore Thoracic Society, and serves on international scientific committees in Lung Cancer and Bronchology as well as American College of Chest Physician Steering Committees. She is invited locally and overseas to speak and instruct in pleuroscopy, bronchoscopy and lung cancer. She is also the author of several publications in peer-reviewed journals and has written a manual and a book on pleuroscopy. She received the Young Investigator’s award for work in asthma and another award at CHEST for research in talc and cancer cells. She is presently pursuing PhD on early lung cancer detection.

Education and Fellowships

MBBS (NUS), MRCP (UK), M.Med (Int Med)

Specialty Interests

• Lung cancer
• Plural disease
• Obstructive airway disease
• Brochoscopy
  
• Pleuroscopy

Awards and Honours

• Young Investigator Award 2000
• Poster of distinction, NHG 2002
• CHEST (American College of Chest Physicians) Best Poster Award 2006
• Best Reviewer Award for Singapore Medical Journal 2006, 2007 and 2008
• NMRC Award for PhD Study

Professional Memberships

• President, Singapore Thoracic Society (2009 - 2011)
• Regent of Singapore for American College of Chest Physicians
• International Scientific Committee for World Congress of Bronchology and World Congress for Bronchoesophagology
• International Scientific Committee for World Conference on Lung Cancer
• American College of Chest Physicians Clinical Pulmonary Medicine Network Steering Committee
• American College of Chest Physicians Interventional Chest/Diagnostic Procedures Network Steering Committee
• Faculty of 1000 Medicine: Lung Cancer
• American Thoracic Society Assembly on Clinical Problems
• Board of Associates for Institute of Pulmonology Medical Research and Development (Mumbai)

Publications

1. Lee P, Abisheganaden J, Chee CBE, Wang YT. A New Index that Predicts Near-fatal Asthma. Eur Respir J 2001;18:272-8.

2. Lee P, Tai DYH. Clinical Features of Patients with Acute Organophosphate Poisoning requiring Intensive Care. Intensive Care Med 2001;27:694-9.

3. Lee P, Culver DA, Mehta AC. Case Report on Syndrome of Iron Pill Aspiration. CHEST 2002;121:1355-7.

4. Lee P, Gildea TR, Stoller JK. Emphysema in non-smokers: Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency and other causes. Cleve Clin J Med 2002;69:928-46.

5. Lee P, Colt HG. Using Diagnostic Thoracoscopy to Optimal Effect. J Crit Care Illn 2003;18:244-51.

6. Lee P, Colt HG. Thoracoscopy: an update on therapeutic applications. J Respir Dis 2003;24:530-5.

7. 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;125:1190-2.

8. Lee P, Mehta AC. Management of Obstructing Airway Lesions in Patients with Lung Cancer. PCCU (Chest) 2004; Volume 18: Lesson 5.

9. Lee P, Minai OA, Mehta AC, DeCamp M, Murthy S. Pulmonary Nodules in Lung Transplant Recipients: Etiology and Outcome. Chest 2004;125:165-72.

10. Lee P, Colt HG. Rigid and Semirigid Pleuroscopy: the Future is Bright. Respirology 2005;10:418-25.

11. Pernafiel A, Lee P, Hsu AAL, Eng P. Topical Mitomycin-C for Obstructing Endobronchial Granuloma. Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:e22-3.

12. Lee P, Hsu A, Lo C, Colt HG. Prospective Evaluation of Flex-rigid Pleuroscopy for Indeterminate Pleural Effusion: Accuracy, Safety and Outcome. Respirology 2007;12:881-6.

13. Lee P, Colt HG. State of the Art: Pleuroscopy. J Thorac Oncol 2007;7:663-70.

14. Lee P, Colt HG. Spray catheter technique for pleural anesthesia: a novel method for pain control before talc poudrage. Anesth Analg. 2007;104:198-200.

15. Lee P, PE Postmus, Sutedja TG. Letter to Editor: Survival of Patients with Stage I Lung Cancer Detected on CT Screening. The International Early Lung Cancer Action Program Investigators. N Engl J Med 2007;356:745.

16. Lee P, Sutedja TG. Lung Cancer Screening: is there any progress? Computed Tomography and Autofluorescence Bronchoscopy. Curr Opin Pulm Med. 2007;13:243-8.

17. Lee P, Brokx HA, Postmus PE, Sutedja TG. Dual Digital Video-Autofluorescence Imaging for Detection of Pre-neoplastic Lesions. Lung Cancer 2007;58:44-9.

18. Lee P, Low SY, Liem HL, Tan D, Eng P. Endobronchial Ultrasound for Detection of Tracheomalacia from Chronic Compression by Vascular Ring. Respirology 2007;12:299-301.

19. Lee P, Sutedja TG. Letter to Editor on Population screening for lung cancer using computed tomography, is there evidence of clinical effectiveness? Thorax 2008;63:87.

20. Lee P, Brokx HA, De Bree R, Leemans C. René, Postmus PE, Sutedja TG. Primary Lung Cancer after Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer without Lymph Node Metastasis: Is There A Role for Autofluorescence Bronchoscopy? Lung Cancer 2008;62:309-15.