About Dr. Lee Moon Keen
July 22, 2010 443 Comments
Consultant Neurologist and Movement Disorders Specialist
CREDENTIALS
MBBS (Malaya) · Dip Clinical Neurology (London) · FRCP (Edinburgh) Fellow, Academy of Medicine Malaysia
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Lee Moon Keen is a Consultant Neurologist and Movement Disorders Specialist with over three decades of experience. A Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia, she is widely recognised as a pioneer in Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery — leading the team that performed Malaysia’s first DBS procedure for Parkinson’s Disease at Sunway Medical Centre in February 2003.
Dr. Lee trained at the University of Malaya and the Institute of Neurology, University of London, supported by the Chevening Scholarship of the British High Commission. She lectured at the University of Malaya before entering private practice in 1994.
Her clinical focus is Movement Disorders, with particular expertise in Parkinson’s Disease. She is a Founder Member and former Vice-President of the Malaysian Society of Neurosciences, and a founding member and adviser to the Movement Disorders Council.
Dr. Lee has contributed to national and regional healthcare policy as a member of the Neurology Credentialling Committee for the National Specialist Register, and as an expert on Clinical Practice Guidelines covering Parkinson’s Disease, Stroke, and Brain Death Certification. She also served on the Good Medical Practice guideline panel for the Malaysian Medical Council, and on the expert panel of the Asian Parkinson Disease Network Meeting in Tokyo (2015).
She has published research across Movement Disorders, Deep Brain Stimulation, Stroke, and Muscular Dystrophy, and serves as a peer reviewer for publications in Neuromodulation. Dr. Lee is fluent in English, Bahasa Malaysia, Cantonese, and Hokkien, with conversational Mandarin.
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