Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences (Medical Anthropology)
Division of Ethics and Health Policy, Department of Clinical Sciences
Member, Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center (Population Sciences & Cancer Control)

UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, Texas  75390-9070
Office: 214-648-1463
Fax: 214-648-4967
E-mail: simoncraddock.lee@utsouthwestern.edu

Current Research

Ethics/Medical Humanities Areas of Expertise/Interest:

Medical anthropology
Ethics of prevention and public health
Health disparities, especially in cancer prevention and control
Ethics and social values of Catholic healthcare
Evolution of chaplaincy and spiritual care services
Culture of biomedicine
Culture and social behavior in medical education
Qualitative methods and analysis

CME Lectures:

It’s not You, It’s Me: Clinical Culture & Social Difference in End of Life Care
Building Common Ground: Clinical Culture & Pediatric Care for Growing Communities

Public Lectures:

Biomedicine as a Cultural System
Ethical Stewardship and Not-for-Profit Governance in Healthcare
Troubling Health Disparities: Human Difference beyond Race & Ethnicity

Recent Ethics/Medical Humanities Publications:

Hay JL and Lee SJC (In Press) Theory-building through Qualitative Research: Marshalling opportunities to advance cancer screening efforts. Health Education & Behavior.

Lee, SJC. (In press) “Science, Surveillance, and the Politics of Redress in Health Disparities Research” In Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts.

Han PK, T Lehman, H Massett, WMP Klein, SJC Lee, AN Freedman. (2009) Laypersons’ responses to the communication of uncertainty regarding cancer risk estimates (a qualitative analysis) Medical Decision Making 29(3): 391-403.

Han PKJ, TC Lehman, H Massett, SJC Lee, WMP Klein, AN Freedman. (2009) Conceptual problems in laypersons’ understanding of individualized cancer risk: A qualitative study.Health Expectations 12(1):4-17.

Lee, SJC. (2009) A View from White Flint: Ambiguity, Identity and Disparities in Cancer In Confronting Cancer: Metaphor, Inequality, and Advocacy, (pp 165-86) Santa Fe: SAR Press.

Lee SJC. (2008) Clinical Research vs. Clinical Care: An anthropological perspective on medical research ethics. “Ethical Currents” in Anthropology News 49(9): 25-26

Lee, SJC. Health science: from bench to bedside to trench and back (Correspondence) Nature. 2008 Jul 17;454(7202):274.

Lee, SJC. “Ethics” and “Issues in Cancer Disparities” in Encyclopedia of Cancer & Society, Graham Colditz, Ed. Sage Publications, 2007.

Lee, SJC. “Ethics of Articulation: Constituting identity in a Catholic Hospital System” In Sorrell Dinkins, C. and J. Sorrell (Eds.). Listening to the Silences: Re-Thinking Ethics in Healthcare. (2006) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Invited chapter, peer reviewed.

Lee, SJC. “Rethinking race and ethnicity in health disparities” Anthropology News 47(3):7-8, March 2006; also in conjunction with Understanding Race & Human Variation, a public education project of the American Anthropological Association.

Lee, SJC. “The risks of race in addressing health disparities” The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 35 (4): 2005

Key Publications:

Lee, S.J.C. "In a secular spirit: Strategies of Clinical Pastoral Education" in Health Care Analysis: International Journal of Philosophy and Policy, Vol. 10, 339-56, 2002.

Other Recent Ethics/Medical Humanities Activities:

Ethics in Translation: Constituting Collaboration & Community in Health Science.
Society for Social Studies of Science, Rotterdam, Netherlands August 2008

Bishop Britt Memorial Lecture “Ethics of Disparity: Clinical Culture & Catholic Healthcare” St. Mary’s Medical Center, Grand Rapids MI April, 2008

Interrogating Cultural Competence (discussant), American Anthropological Association, Washington DC Nov 2007

Causal Mechanisms and Intervention Targets: Expanding the Race/Ethnicity Paradigm in Health Disparities. American Society of Bioethics & the Humanities, Washington DC Oct 2007

Social Difference and Cancer: “Social context” in the Stress Response Model. Chair, Bringing Anthropology to the Study of Cancer, Society for Applied Anthropology, Tampa FL March 2007