Staff profile: Professor Diana Fan Tze Lee
Position: Honorary Visiting Professor
Institution: Nethersole School of Nursing, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Email: tzefanlee@cuhk.edu.hk
Biography
Diana is the Professor of Nursing and Director of the Nethersole School of Nursing and Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Diana has researched and published widely in gerontological nursing. She is committed to this field as a researcher, educator and political advocate. Diana has recently completed projects funded by major competitive grants on evaluating nurse-led protocols and services for the care of older people in residential and home-based care. She has made major contribution to the developments of theoretical frameworks that explain the adjustment of elders and their families to residential care placement.
Diana’s latest publications include papers in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society, The Gerontologist and Journal of Advanced Nursing. She is the editor and editorial board member for a number of international nursing and gerontological journals, such as Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Nursing and Health Care of Chronic Illness, International Journal of Older People Nursing and Journal of Interprofessional Care. Diana also acts as a reviewer for many international peer reviewed journals such as the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Journal of Gerontology, Social Science and Medicine and Quality of Life Research.
Diana is the Chair of the International Consortium of Nursing Assessment and is honorary advisor for a number of government and professional bodies in Hong Kong. Diana has also established international joint research studies on the quality of life of older people in China, UK and Taiwan. She has given many keynote papers at conferences in many countries.
Interests
Gerontology, particularly community and residential care of older people; nursing education; interprofessional working in the care of older people; cultural care.
