Gerry Lee is a nurse academic, appointed as Professor and Chair of Nursing and Health Services Research at UCC in 2023. Dr Lee has 30 years experience of working in cardiovascular disease, focusing primarily on Atrial Fibrillation. In 2018, Dr Lee established a nurse-led rapid access clinic for patients with suspected atrial fibrillation at St Thomas's Hospital, London with the aim of assessing patients for stroke and ensuring appropriate medication is prescribed and worked closely with a clinical pharmacist.

Dr Lee's research expertise is primarily related to advanced practice and included examining the role of advanced practice in relation to clinical outcomes, staff knowledge on these roles, education and training required to become an advanced practitioner as well as examining patient satisfaction with advanced practitioners. Dr Lee's other research interests have been on workforce development and optimising health in long term conditions using shared-decision masking and digital technology such as apps and remote monitoring.

More recently, she has become involved in research in the emerging field of cardio-oncology and plays an active role in the European Society of Cardiology's Council of Cardio-Oncology as well as the International Society of Cardio-Oncology. 

In June 2026, Dr Lee was recognised for her work in the field of cardio-oncology by the ESC Council of Cardio-Oncology with their Cardio-oncology Grandparenting Pathway. She is the first nurse to gain this recognition. 

In Australia, Dr Lee developed one of the first Masters programmes for Nurse Practitioners in Melbourne. From 2012 to 2023, Dr Lee was the programme lead for the MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice at King's College London and led the accreditaiton of the programme with Health Education England. The MSc enrolled approximately 120 healthcare professionals including nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists annually.

Dr Lee has published over a 160 peer reviewed papers and she is a principal investigator on H2020 EHRA-PATHS study: 'Addressing multimorbidity in elderly atrial fibrillation patients through interdisciplinary, tailored, patient-centered care pathways.' 

•Cardio Oncology •Nurse practitioner/advanced practice research •Cardiovascular disease: detection, assessment and management•Chronic disease management & multidisciplinary approach •Hospital in the Home . Emergency & trauma care 

Teaching: PG Diploma Specialist Programmes NU6070- Clinical Leadership in Practice Enhancement for Nursing & Midwifery, NU6306-Clinical Leadership for Healthcare Quality Improvement, NU6078- Optiimsing health and wellbeing in older people and MH6014- Advanced Research Methods for Healthcare Professionals

Areas of interest: Advanced practice, nurse practitioner, cardiovascular care, evidence-based practice, chronic disease management, cardio-oncology, quality of life. 

PhD supervision:

Completed:

2021-2025: Ethnicity and exposure to workplace violence for hospital-based and community nurses.

2020-2024: Examining cardiac cachexia in Thai heart failure patients- a mixed methods study.

2018-2024: Long-term Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life in post-ICU Patients: A Mixed Methods Study. 

2018-2022: Forging a new Job Design: a mixed method study examining Cardiac Surgical Assistants' perspectives in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 

2014-2021: Developing an understanding of brief intervention opportunities to prevent severe hypoglycaemic events.

2016-2021: The development of a patient pathway-based intervention for hospital discharge after blunt thoracic injuries.  Awarded 2022 Outstanding Thesis Prize

Gemma McCarthy: Reducing dementia risk in vulnerable adults – Early detection and management of modifiable risk factors in mild cognitive impairment or subjective cognitive impairment

Clodagh Stack: Digital Innovations for Sepsis: Empowering Communities for Early Detection and Rapid Response

Andrés Lorenzo Lizano Pérez: Perspectives on Advanced Practice Nursing and Digital Technologies in Primary Care (UNAM University, Mexico City, Mexico)