Professor Terence Kee is a senior consultant renal physician with interest in kidney, pancreas, and uterus transplantation. He obtained his MBBS at the Flinders University of South Australia in 1994 and by 2000 completed the Singapore General Hospital basic and advanced physician training in general and renal medicine. He subsequently received a Singapore Government Human Manpower Development Program Award in 2004 to undergo a 1-year clinical fellowship in advanced renal transplantation under Professor Jeremy Chapman at the Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He returned to SGH in 2005 and became director of the kidney transplant program in 2008 ever since. 

Under his leadership, many milestones in kidney transplantation at SGH was achieved such as the first ABO-incompatible kidney transplant, the first dual deceased kidney donor transplant, the first ABO and HLA incompatible kidney transplant, paired kidney donor exchange and kidney transplantation using hepatitis B and human immunodeficiency virus positive kidney donors. New transplantation technologies and treatments were also introduced such as double filtration plasmaphresis, immunoadsorption and novel biologics to prevent and treat rejection of the kidney transplant. Professor Terence Kee also assisted in performing the first ABO-incompatible liver transplantation and assist in an advisory capacity for other transplant programs. Professor Terence Kee has also served in many leadership positions including Associate Program Director of the SingHealth Residency in Internal Medicine, Director of Clinical Service Planning and Special Projects for the Sengkang Hospital Planning Committee, Deputy Director of Research and Education at SingHealth Transplant and Clinical Director of Transplant Centre. He has also served as Chairman of the Chapter of Renal Physicians of Singapore, President of the Society of Transplantation of Singapore, President of the College of Physicians and sit as a council member of the Asian Society of Transplantation and the ASEAN Federation of Internal Medicine. Professor Terence Kee is also an academician, having published over 90 papers, a textbook in nephrology and a history book of the development of nephrology in Singapore. He has actively participated in industry and investigator sponsored studies with over a million dollars in grant funding. His current research interests are in clinical immunosuppression, novel biomarkers, and BK virus infection.  

In recognition for his contributions in public healthcare and medical education, Professor Terence Kee has received many awards notably the SingHealth Residency Outstanding Mentor Award (2011), the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Dean Award for Teaching Excellence (2013), SingHealth Residency Outstanding Faculty Award (2021), the National Day Long Service Award (2021) and the COVID Resilience Medal (2023). He was also awarded the Dr Lim Cheng Hong Lectureship (2022) and the Chapter of Renal Physician Lectureship (2023) in recognition of his contributions to nephrology in Singapore. Professor Terence Kee also received a SGH scholarship and is the first transplant physician in Singapore to complete a Master Degree in Transplantation Sciences from the University of Liverpool. After working hours, Professor Terence Kee contributes to the community by being a volunteer doctor at the Kidney Dialysis Foundation and organizing fund raising cycling events to raise funds for the SGH needy patient fund. In 2023, Professor Terence Kee founded Singapore’s first cycling team of transplant patients which represented Singapore at the World Transplant Games in 2023. 

Professor Terence Kee is also keen on advancing transplantation in Asia, having trained several fellows from South-East Asia in transplantation and is co-chair of the Asian Solid Organ Transplant Registry, having published several multinational studies of transplantation in Asia. He was also conferred honorary fellowships from the College of Physicians of Malaysia, Royal College of Physicians of Thailand and the Philippines College of Physicians in recognition of his contribution to foster academic medicine partnerships in the region.