DrMei Lin Tay is a Clinical Scientist and Research Manager in the Department of Orthopaedics at North Shore Hospital, Health New Zealand Waitematā, and a Research Fellow at the University of Auckland. She manages the Waitematā Joint Registry and randomised controlled trials in knee arthroplasty.

Mei Lin completed her PhD in knee replacement surgery, investigating implant survivorship and risk factors for revision. Her research focuses on optimising outcomes following knee arthroplasty, with particular interests in implant selection, alignment strategies, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), and registry-based research. As part of the North Shore Hospital orthopaedic research team, she has contributed to recent randomised controlled trials recognised with the John Insall Award and Mark Coventry Award from The American Knee Society, two prestigious international awards in knee arthroplasty research.