Biography
Awards & Honors
Award | Conferred By | Date |
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Dudley P. Allen Surgical Research Scholar | Case Western Reserve University | 2001/2003 |
Fellow | American College of Surgeons |
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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Duke University | Fellow/Aortic Surgery, Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support | 2010 | |
Duke University | Resident/Cardiothoracic Surgery | 2010 | |
Lunds Universitet (Malmö University Hospital) | Fellow/Interventional Radiology and Endovascular Surgery | 2007 | |
Case Western Reserve University | Resident/General Surgery | 2006 | |
Washington University School of Medicine | M.D. | Medicine | 1999 |
Board Certifications
American Board of Thoracic Surgery, Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Clinical Expertise
Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection Repair
Endovascular Surgery
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, including off-pump
Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery
Heart Transplantation
Arrhythmia Surgery
Re-operative surgery
Valve-sparing root replacement
Thoraco-abdominal aortic aneurysm repair
Mitral Valve Repair
Aortic Valve Repair
Foreign Languages Spoken
Program Affiliations
UCSF Heart and Vascular Center
UCSF Transcatheter Valve Program
Washington Hospital Health System
Research Narrative
Dr. Lee's research is focused on new stent-graft technologies for the aortic arch. He had been the Site Principal Investigator in numerous clinical trials involving treatment of aortic arch aneurysms using minimally invasive (endovascular) techniques. He has experience in using branched stent-grafts in the aortic arch with the Gore Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis, the Medtronic MonaLSA endoprosthesis, and the Cook 2-branch arch device.
Recently, he has also collaborated with bio-medical engineers to study the hemodynamic consequences of different stent-graft device in the aortic arch.
Over the last few years, Dr. Lee and his research collaborators have also been looking into the outcomes and management of acute type A aortic dissection, and potential strategies to improve them.
Research Interests
Development of next-generation stent-graft technology
Outcomes and management of aortic dissection
Publications
- Commentary: Thoracic aortic disease: One step closer to precision medicine.| | View in PubMed
- Haemodynamics of Different Configurations of a Left Subclavian Artery Stent Graft for Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair.| | View in PubMed
- Impact of Valve Size on Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch and Aortic Valve Gradient After Transcatheter versus Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement.| | View in PubMed
- Even redo ascending aorta replacement has low mortality in elective setting.| | View in PubMed
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Efficiency and Safety Improvements With Progressive Experience and Improved Technology.| | View in PubMed
- Contemporary management and outcomes of acute type A aortic dissection: An analysis of the STS adult cardiac surgery database.| | View in PubMed
- Idarucizumab (Praxbind) for reversal of pradaxa prior to emergent repair of contained ruptured transverse arch aneurysm.| | View in PubMed
- Florida Sleeve Procedure Is Durable and Improves Aortic Valve Function in Marfan Syndrome Patients.| | View in PubMed
- Outcomes of Antegrade Stent Graft Deployment During Hybrid Aortic Arch Repair.| | View in PubMed
- Femorofemoral Shunt During Surgery for Acute DeBakey Type 1 Dissection to Treat Peripheral Extremity Malperfusion.| | View in PubMed
- Invited Commentary.| | View in PubMed
- Results with a selective revascularization strategy for left subclavian artery coverage during thoracic endovascular aortic repair.| | View in PubMed
- Aortic valve replacement through right minithoracotomy in 306 consecutive patients.| | View in PubMed
- Thoracic endografting in a patient with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia presenting with a descending thoracic aneurysm.| | View in PubMed
- Comparison of Minithoracotomy versus Sternotomy in 304 Consecutive Tricuspid Valve Operations.| | View in PubMed
- Results of 141 consecutive minimally invasive tricuspid valve operations: an 11-year experience.| | View in PubMed
- In situ bending of a thoracic stent-graft: a proposed novel technique to improve thoracic endograft seal.| | View in PubMed
- Liposome-mediated gene transfer to lung isografts.| | View in PubMed
- Ex vivo adenoviral-mediated gene transfer to lung isografts during cold preservation.| | View in PubMed