Susan Lim

Susan Lim Mey Lee is a Singaporean surgeon who in 1990 performed the first successful liver transplant in Singapore, and was the second female doctor in the world to perform such a transplant. Educated at the Singapore Chinese Girls' School and Raffles Institution, she studied medicine at Monash University in Australia on a Colombo Plan scholarship and graduated with honours in 1979. In 1984 she became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and won a gold medal as the most distinguished candidate in general surgery that year. A Gulbenkian Scholarship took her to Churchill College, Cambridge, where she completed a PhD in 1988. She later received Monash University's Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2006 and an honorary Doctor of Medicine from the University of Newcastle in 2007. Her career also includes a professional-misconduct case brought by the Singapore Medical Council over fees charged to a patient in 2007, for which she was convicted in 2012 and lost her appeal in 2013.