Dr Chuan Whei Lee awarded 2024 Skantha Vallipuram Research Scholarship

Congratulations to Dr Chuan-Whei Lee, awarded the 2024 Skantha Vallipuram ANZCA Research Scholarship

The Skantha Vallipuram ANZCA Research Scholarship will support Dr Lee in pursuing her 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.