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Simon Lee, PhD
Contact Information
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390
Office Fax: 214-648-3934
Biography
Simon Craddock Lee, PHD MPH joined UT Southwestern in August of 2008 as Assistant Professor (medical anthropology) in the Department of Clinical Sciences. From 2004 until his appointment at UT Southwestern, Dr. Lee 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 how cultural values shape health services delivery in a major not-for-profit Catholic hospital system. Dr. Lee continues to serve as a content expert in hospital governance and not-for-profit operations, especially mission integration, secular collaboration, community benefit and care for the poor and underserved.
As an anthropologist, Dr. Lee is committed to integrating social science and medical humanities perspectives across health science and medical education. At UT Southwestern, he contributes to culture/behavior and ethics curricula in the Medical School and qualitative analysis and research design in the post-doctoral 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 UT Simmons Cancer Center. His previous research in anthropology and ethics has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ), the Social Science Research Council, and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Lee reviews for the NSF program in Ethics and Science, as well as NHLBI and NCI Special Emphasis panels (ad hoc study section) at NIH. Dr. Lee holds a leadership position in the American Anthropological Association and is an elected Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
Education
| Graduate School | University of California-San Francisco (2003) |
| Graduate School | University of California-Berkeley (1998) |
| Undergraduate | Yale University (1994) |
Research Interests
Publications
Lee, SJC , Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts , Fall 2009; (3/1):51-74
Lee, SJC , Health, Risk & Society , April 2010; (12/2):101-17
Lee SJ, Tiro JA, Bishop WP, Sheppard PD, Skinner CS., American Journal of Bioethics, 2011; 11 (11):42-3
Lee, SJC , Confronting Cancer: Metaphors, Advocacy, and Anthropology, J.McMullin & D. Weiner, Eds. , 2008; (SAR Press):165-86
Han PK, T Lehman, H Massett, WMP Klein, SC Lee, AN Freedman , Medical Decision Making , May 2009; (29/3):391-403
Han PK, Lehman TC, Massett H, Lee SJ, Klein WM, and Freedman AN , Health Expectations , March 2009; (12/1):4-17
Lee, SJC , Nature (correspondence) , July 2008; (7202/454):274
Lee, SJC , Listening to the Silences: Re-thinking Ethics in Healthcare, Sorrell Dinkins and Sorrell, Eds. , 2006; (U Wisconsin Press):69-129
Lee, SJC , Health Care Analysis: International Journal of Philosophy & Policy , 2002; (10):339-56
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Honors/Awards
Special Interest Award for Cancer Disparities Research (2011)
Pilot study of organizational dynamics affecting clinical research participation through a cancer center (2009)
Peer-reviewed loan repayment award recognizing research in cancer disparities (2009)
"Ethics of Disparity: Clinical Culture & Catholic Healthcare" (2008)
Nomination to Council of Graduate Schools Distinguished Dissertation in the Social Sciences (2003)
Professional Associations/Affiliations
(2011-2013)