Jeese Li
Class of 2003
Class of 2003
COVID Doctor
As a Year 12, Jesse was our Head Boy, as well as the 2003 School Dux and a member of the Honours Society.
After leaving high school, Jesse studied medicine at UWA, and then at the prestigious Harvard University in the United States.
He eventually moved to Sydney working as an Emergency Doctor.
In 2020, as the pandemic started to rage, one of Sydney’s aged care facilities suffered one of the earliest significant COVID-19 outbreaks. Jesse volunteered to be their doctor after their regular staff were put into quarantine. He stayed for several months.
As that project wound down, Jesse became one of the first doctors placed in Sydney’s new hotel quarantine system. It was a project he was shortly put in charge of.
At the start of 2021, Jesse made the TV news as the doctor selected to give the Prime Minister, and the Chief Medical Officer, their first COVID-19 vaccinations.
To this day, he is the only Mount Lawley student to ever legally ‘stab’ a sitting Prime Minister.
In 2021, while sitting at home in quarantine in Sydney, Jesse addressed the entire school at the Honours Society Assembly via video link. His story was engrossing, and he held the attention of all present in a powerful presentation.
Jesse said, at the time, that he had worn more Personal Protection Equipment than he ever thought possible, had been tested for the Corona Virus more times than he could remember, and realised, much to his surprise, that he had left high school just as the Year 12’s were being born.