Dr Chuan-Whei Lee was awarded the Skantha Vallipuram ANZCA Research Scholarship to support her in pursuing a PhD at the University of Melbourne with her thesis topic of surgery at the end of life: a paradigm for assessing futile treatment. Dr Lee’s research will focus on postoperative survival and quality of life outcomes of older and high-risk patients with different end-of-life illness phases and trajectories who are considered for surgery.
CIA: Dr Chuan-Whei Lee