About Me: The Academic Version
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Joyce Lee, MD, MPH, is the Robert P. Kelch, MD Research Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School and Professor at the Medical School and at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She serves as the Associate Chief Medical Information Officer (ACMIO) for Pediatric Research at Michigan Medicine, Associate Chair for Health Metrics and Learning Health Systems for the Department of Pediatrics, and Ambulatory Care Clinical Chief for Pediatric Medical Subspecialties for the University of Michigan Medical Group.
Dr Lee attended Brown University for her undergraduate education and the University of Pennsylvania for her medical degree, where she was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Society. She completed internship and residency in General Pediatrics at the Boston Combined Residency Program (Children's Hospital, Boston and Boston Medical Center). She completed dual training in Pediatric Endocrinology and Pediatric Health Services Research and received a Master in Public Health from the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Lee is a pediatric translational researcher focused on the overarching areas of type 1 diabetes and childhood obesity. She has used a variety of methodologies in her research, including applied clinical research, epidemiologic analyses of nationally representative data, state transition modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis, as well as design and emerging technologies (design ethnography, participatory design, human-centered design, quality improvement science, and digital/social media communications). To date, she has over 130 peer-reviewed publications. Her major research contributions have included studies evaluating recommended screening guidelines for type 2 diabetes for overweight and obese children, studies evaluating the link between overweight and obesity and timing of puberty and chronic disease risk factors, studies focused on quality measurement and quality of care for overweight and obese children, and research in health outcomes for type 1 diabetes.
In 2009, Dr. Lee was named a Brehm Investigator by the Brehm Center for Type 1 Diabetes Research. In 2012, she was a visiting scholar at in Child Health Policy at Stanford University and in 2015 was a visiting scholar at Google Life Sciences (now Verily). At the 2016 Pediatric Academic Societies meeting, she was the first recipient of the Paul Kaplowitz, MD, Endowed Lectureship for contributions to quality and cost-effective care in Pediatric Endocrinology, an award sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Endocrine Society. She was named the Robert P. Kelch, MD Research Professor of Pediatrics in 2016.
In 2018, Dr. Lee’s scholarship expanded to the creation of Learning Health Systems. To support this work she completed the Advanced Methods in Quality Improvement course at Cincinnati Children’s (2018), became an Epic Physician Builder (2017), and achieved proficiency in Clarity, the Epic database (2018) and has skills in the development of Tableau dashboards. Her roles as ACMIO, Associate Chair, and which Ambulatory Care Clinical Chief allow her to support this LHS vision for pediatric health.
Her current LHS work focuses on two main areas:
1) Type 1 Diabetes: Collaboration with the T1D Exchange Quality Improvement Collaborative to improve the quality of care and health outcomes of individuals with Type 1 Diabetes. Particular areas of interest include adoption of telemedicine, Epic tool development and Tableau dashboard development for support operations and QI, measurement of patient reported outcomes (i.e. psychosocial outcomes) using Health IT tools, and interventions to support data literacy and data engagement among parents of children with T1D.
2) Prevention and treatment of childhood overweight/obesity: She is focused on the development of a collaboration across the state of Michigan to reduce childhood overweight/obesity rates (funded by the Michigan Health Endowment Fund). Furthermore, she serves as Director of the newly formed Childhood Obesity Research Core (CORC), an NIH-funded core of the Michigan Nutrition Obesity Research Center which enhances integration of childhood nutrition and obesity research into the clinical delivery system.
Other areas of interest include collaborations with human computing interaction and machine learning/artificial intelligence experts to understand how data can be used to solve real world healthcare problems, biomarker discovery for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in children and the use of real-time CGM in prediabetes.
Learn more about her interests in Research, Design, and Social Media.
Current Financial Disclosures: T1D Exchange; GoodRx Medical Advisory Board.
Joyce Lee, MD, MPH
Robert P. Kelch, MD Research Professor of Pediatrics
Ambulatory Care Clinical Chief, Pediatric Subspecialties
Associate Chair, Health Metrics and Learning Health Systems
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for Pediatric Research
Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center
2800 Plymouth Rd NCRC Building 16, Office G036E
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2800
Tel: 734-615-3508
Email: joyclee@med.umich.edu
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joyce-lee-md-mph-a156a57/
Website: http://doctorasdesigner.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joyclee
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