Dr. Sukchan Lee was born in South Korea and emigrated with his family to New Zealand at the age of seven. He received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Auckland School of Medicine. This was followed by an internship and residency at Auckland Hospitals through the NZ Orthopedic Association training program. In 2005, Dr. Lee was admitted as Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, which is the Australian and New Zealand equivalent to United States Board Certification. Dr. Lee also went on to complete an arthroplasty fellowship with the Harvard Combined Orthopedics Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.