Dr Lim graduated from The University of New South Wales with Honours in 1991 and became a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of  Radiologists in 2001.

In 2000, he completed a Fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at  the University Health Network, Toronto, through the University of Toronto, Canada. The following year, he completed a second 12-month Fellowship in CT and MRI, also in Toronto, Canada. 

Dr Lim returned to Sydney in October 2003 to work at The Prince of Wales and Sydney Children’s Hospital, where he is currently employed as a senior staff specialist diagnostic and interventional radiologist. 

He is also a founding Partner of Spectrum Medical Imaging which opened in 2008.

He has special interests in vascular, oncological and spinal imaging and interventions and helped to establish the vascular access service at Prince of Wales Hospital.  He has been an active participant in multiple MDTs including Vascular, Nephrology, Gastrointestinal, Sarcoma and Urology over the last 15 years.