Jimmy Lee graduated from the school of medicine at Trinity College, and subsequently completed his Emergency Medicine Training with the Irish national EM training programme. He also completed an undergraduate degree in Psychology from McGill University in Montréal, and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Royal College of Physicians UK and a Masters in Public Health with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Jimmy has a subspecialist interest in Humanitarian Medicine, with previous work in the ED in JFK Hospital (Monrovia, Liberia), the ICU in Al-Ahli Hospital (Hebron, West Bank, Palestine), and received his Trauma training at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital Trauma Centre (Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa). More recently he spent 2023 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan for Médecins Sans Frontières, co-managing with the provincial hospital ED with the Taliban and continues to work with MSF delivering the Basic Assessment and Support in Intensive Care for Low Resources (BASIC LR) course, most recently in Borno State, Northeast Nigeria in 2025.

Jimmy has a passion for teaching, and instructs on ETC, ATLS, APLS, Echo-Guided Life Support, WildMed, and Wilderness Emergency Medical Services Institute. He also is faculty at RCSI on several courses including Emergency Airway Management, Trauma Skills, Emergency Ultrasound, and is the faculty lead for Resus Simulation for CPDSS. Jimmy is an Hon. Senior Lecturer in EM & Global Health at the University of Galway.

He is the Airway Lead and Simulation & Procedural Training Lead for the GUH ED.

He is also the Galway director for the Galway-Baragwanath Fellowship in Trauma Resuscitation, coordinated with the Baragwanath Trauma Centre in Johannesburg, one of the largest trauma centres in the world.

Originally from Canada, Jimmy now spends most of the time on the Bens and Maumturks in Connemara or on a Sea kayak in Galway Bay.