Dr. Naomi Menday Lee, Breast Physician

Dr. Naomi Menday Lee is a breast physician and a graduate of the University of Newcastle, completing her internship and postgraduate training in the Newcastle and Hunter area. She holds a Fellowship of the Australasian Society of Breast Physicians (FASBP) and is a Board member of this organisation. She has specialised in breast medicine for over 10 years with extensive experience in consulting across the entire spectrum of breast conditions, interpreting breast imaging, breast cancer risk assessment, breast cancer surveillance and performing biopsy of breast lesions.

Naomi joined the team at The Breast Centre in 2011. It was her particular interest in women's health and the opportunity to work as part of a multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing high quality, evidence-based care to patients and their families that attracted her to working as a breast physician at The Breast Centre, recognising that this comprehensive breast specialist centre provided her with a unique opportunity to utilise her diagnostic, procedural and counselling skills. Her main interest is providing comprehensive, holistic and individualised care to patients with a high risk for developing breast cancer, particularly those patients with a known genetic risk.

In addition to her work at The Breast Centre, Naomi is the Clinical Director of BreastScreen Hunter New England, and is an active member of the multidisciplinary team that provides screening services and diagnostic work-up of screen-detected lesions identified in women of the region.

Naomi works with our team of radiographers, sonographers, nurses, radiologists, surgeons, oncologists and pathologists to provide compassionate and comprehensive care that is informed by current research findings in breast medicine and breast cancer surveillance. She has focused her private practice on providing care and monitoring of patients identified with a high risk for developing breast cancer. In her practice she undertakes risk assessment in patients with increased risk factors for breast cancer and advises GPs on appropriate surveillance plans; she provides diagnostic breast medicine services, consulting on the broad spectrum of breast conditions, performing a range of biopsy procedures as part of the work-up in patients with a breast lesion and, importantly, provides comprehensive advice and management plans for the surveillance and, where appropriate, risk reduction procedures for patients in a high risk category.