Dr. Lee joined UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences’ Division of Ethics & Health Policy in August of 2008. From 2004 until his appointment at UTSW, he was a Cancer Prevention Fellow in the ethics of prevention and public health at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), where he also served as Co-Chair of the Culture & Qualitative Research Interest Group, a scientific intramural association of the NIH.
His doctoral fieldwork examined the role of collective identity in the ethics and social values of a leading not-for-profit Catholic hospital system. Though not Catholic himself, Dr. Lee continues to serve as a content expert in Catholic hospital governance and not-for-profit operations, particularly secular collaboration, community benefit and care for the vulnerable and underserved.
As an anthropologist, he is committed to integrating medical humanities perspectives across the health sciences. AT UT Southwestern, Dr. Lee contributes to culture/behavior and ethics curricula in the Medical School and the Clinical Scholars Program. Dr. Lee maintains his focus on cancer disparities as a member of the developing Population Sciences and Cancer Control Program within the Simmons Cancer Center.
