
Dr Hyukjoon (Howard) Lee
MD, MPH, PhD
Managing Interventional Radiologist
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Dr Lee is a consultant interventional radiologist at Christchurch Hospital, where he first joined in 2019. He trained in South Korea and has also worked in the United States.
Procedures
Dr Lee’s work includes:
- Joint and tendon pain embolisation, including treatment for knee osteoarthritis, frozen shoulder, tennis/golfer’s elbow, hip pain, plantar fasciitis and Achilles tendinopathy
- Uterine fibroid embolisation
- Ovarian vein embolisation for pelvic congestion syndrome
- Prostate artery embolisation for benign prostate enlargement
- Haemorrhoidal artery embolisation
- Sclerotherapy for ovarian endometrioma
- Tumour ablation for kidney, liver and lung tumours
- Benign thyroid nodule ablation
- Treatment of peripheral arterial disease and aortic aneurysms
- Venous access procedures, including Port-a-Cath, PICC and CICC insertion
- Image-guided biopsies
Training and experience
Dr Lee completed his radiology residency and a fellowship in interventional radiology at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital in South Korea. He then worked as a consultant and assistant professor at Seoul National University Hospital.
He joined Christchurch Hospital as a consultant interventional radiologist in 2019. He later worked as an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in the United States, before returning to Christchurch in 2024. He continues to work in the interventional radiology department at Christchurch Hospital.
Professional memberships
- Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR), Educational Affiliate
- Interventional Radiology Society of Australasia (IRSA)
- Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE)
- Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR)
- Korean Society of Interventional Radiology (KSIR)

