Medplus Family Medical Centre - 327 Lake Road
Contact us: 09 489 2011
ABOUT US.
Dr Min Yee is a geriatrician with post fellowship qualification in acute medicine and training in palliative care. She graduated in 2007 and completed FRACP training in 2018. Her current employment is the consultant orthogeriatrician in Waitemata DHB. Dr Min Yee has worked and trained in the Auckland region.
Dr Min Yee established an award-winning hip fracture care service for older adults by Health Quality and Safety Commission (HQSC) in New Zealand. She works closely with orthopaedic surgeons and anaesthetists on daily basis, providing best care for older patients going through both acute and elective surgeries.
Through her interest in osteoporosis, Dr Min Yee involved in fracture liaison service in Waitemata DHB. Waitemata DHB Fracture Liaison Service has achieved the highest standard coordinated post-fracture care, earning a Capture the Fracture ‘Gold Standard‘ certificate in recognition of its exemplary service by International Osteoporosis Foundation.
Besides providing perioperative care for older patients, Dr Min Yee has her skillset in the management of complex geriatric patients such as those with underlying cognitive impairment, delirium, frailty, multimorbidities, polypharmacy, falls and osteoporosis.
Dr Min Yee is one of the committee members of Australia New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry (ANZHFR), perioperative special interest group in Australia New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine (ANZSGM) and expert panel advisor for New Zealand Fracture Liaison Network.
With her expertise in frailty and multimorbidities in perioperative care, Dr Min Yee is regularly invited to speak locally to various disciplines. Dr Min Yee also involves in teaching medical students from University of Auckland, surgical nurses and anaesthetic technicians around Auckland region.
Dr Min Yee is actively involved in research and audit especially around the outcome of hip fracture cares, delirium and pain management for older adults. Through research and closely monitoring of practice outcome, Dr Min Yee is able to refine her practice and providing evidence-based, individualised care for her patients.
Being multilingual facilitates Dr Min Yee’s communication skills, which accords a strong therapeutic and supportive relationships with patients and their families. Dr Min Yee speaks fluent English, Cantonese, Malay and conversational Mandarin.
She is a strong advocate in a collaborative approach to deliver a patient centred care in a biopsychosocial model, and not shy in breaking down siloes that currently characterises current medical model of care.
SERVICES
Dr Min Yee welcomes referrals covering all aspects of geriatric medicine
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Preoperative comprehensive geriatric assessment and management
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Falls and balance problems
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Osteoporosis assessment and management
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Dementia, cognitive decline, memory issue and delirium
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Complex multimorbidity
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Frailty
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Medication review, deprescribing and polypharmacy
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Levels of care assessment and needs assessment
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Home visits including aged residential care facilities (travel fee may apply)
CLINICAL AUDIT
2017
An observational study on early recognition and management of cognitive impairment in the East Auckland and Franklin Districts. AT&R department, Middlemore Hospital, CMDHB.
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2015
Impact of cardiac pacemaker in the older person with falls.
AT&R department, Middlemore Hospital, CMDHB.
Analysed and presented data. Benchmarked against American
Heart Association guideline.
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2003
Anaemia in pregnant women attending health clinic.
Ministry of Health Department, Malaysia
Publication (see below).
PUBLICATION
2022
Pending publications in 2022
Gill C.E., Mitchell P.J. Clark J., Cornish J., Fergusson P., Gilchrist N., Hayman L., Hornblow S., Kim D. Mackenzie D., Milsom S., von Tunzelmann A. Binns E, Fergusson K. Fleming S., Hurring S., Lilley R., Miller C., Navarre P. Pettett A., Sankaran S, Seow M.Y., Sincock J, Ward N., Wright M., Close J.C.T., Harris I.A., Armstrong E., Hallen J., Hikaka J., Kerse N., Vujnovich A., Ganda K., Seibel M.J., Jackson T., Kennedy P., Malpas K., Dann L., Shuker C, Dunne C. Wood P., Magaziner J., Marsh D., Tabu I., Cooper C., Halbout P., Javaid M.K., Åkesson K.E., Soulié Mlotek A., Brûlé-Champagne E., Harris R. A systematic approach to care and prevention of fragility fractures in New Zealand: A case study in multidisciplinary, multisector, multinational collaboration.
Kim D., Seow MY, Cutfield R, Spinley J and Cowley M
Expansion and Consolidation of Fracture Liaison Service in New Zealand Public Healthcare Setting – Waitemata District Health Board Experience. Accepted by NZMJ for publication
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2021
Woods R, Butz M, Henschke S, Seow MY, Rademeyer C. Just the Facts: Fascia iliaica compartment block for hip fracture pain management. CJEM.2021 Jan;23(1):19-22
Kluger MT, Skarin M, Collier J, Rice DA, McNair PJ, Seow MY, Connolly MJ. Steroids to reduce the impact on delirium (STRIDE): a double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled feasibility trial of pre-operative dexamethasone in people with hip fracture. Anaesthesia.2021 Aug: 76(8):1031-1041
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2020
Chan H, Chong YH, Seow MY, Li J, Garg P, Kelly M, Neylon A, McDiarmid B, Tan S, Jackson S. Electronic FRAIL score may predict treatment outcomes in older adults with myeloma. J Geriatr Oncol. 2020 Oct 9:S1879-4068(20)30458-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jgo.2020.09.031
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2019
Kirk RJ, Lawes CM, Farrington W, Misur P, Walker ML, Kluger M, Seow MY, Andrew P. Post operative mortality for neck of femur fracture at Waitemata District Health Board. N Z Med J. 2019 Feb 22;132(1490):17-25.
2003
Seow MY, Tan KL, Omar M and Duraisamy P. Anaemia in
pregnant women attending health clinic. Malaysian Family
Physicians Journal, 2003.
POSTER/ORAL PRESENTATION
2019
Anticoagulation does not increase morbidity or mortality in patients undergoing acute operative hip fracture management
8th Fragility Fracture Network International Meeting, Oxford September 2019
2018
Implementation of new orthogeriatric shared-care model in a large NZ tertiary hospital.
ANZSGM ASM, Sydney June 2018
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2018
A quality improvement programme on the completeness of acute orthopaedic patient assessments during admission at a tertiary New Zealand hospital
AAGBI Annual Conference, Dublin November 2018