Yee Lee Cheah

Biography

Dr. Yee Lee Cheah was appointment the Director of Robotic Living Donor Liver Transplantation the JC Walter Jr Transplant Center at Houston Methodist Hospital in 2022. She was previously Director of Living Donor Liver Transplantation at the Roger L Jenkins Transplantation Institute at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Massachusetts. She graduated with honors from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2000 and obtained her AFRCS, Ireland, in 2003. She completed her General Surgery Residency at the Brown University Program in Providence, Rhode Island in 2008, and her ASTS accredited fellowship in Transplantation & Hepatobiliary Surgery at the Lahey Clinic in 2010. Dr. Cheah joined the Asian American Liver Centre at Gleneagles Hospital, the largest adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) center in South East Asia before returning to Lahey Hospital in 2017 to develop the LDLT and robotic surgery programs. She specializes in living donor liver transplantation, robotic transplantation and HPB surgery for benign and malignant disorders, and nutrition therapy of surgical patients. Her main research interests are in the areas of living donor safety, and robotic surgery.