Dr. Lee Faculty Spotlight

Question 1

Dr. Lee’s areas of interest:

Answer 1

All of cardiac surgery, vessels that come off the heart
Minimally invasive valve surgery advantages: shortened (operating on the valve of the heart through smaller incisions)
(traditionally used midline incision sternotomy incision: incision right down the chest that divides the breastbone)

Question 2

What are Dr. Lee’s two sets of duties?

Answer 2

Clinical (taking care of patients, surgery) and educational (research cardiac surgery department; educating doctors and general surgery residents& fellowship of cardiothoracic surgery)

Question 3

What are some examples that Dr. Lee listed of problems they can solve?

Answer 3

Transplant, LVAD (Assist device), thoracic aneurysms, coronary artery disease, aortic valve problems, heart or great vessels of the heart

Question 4

What Dr. Lee is excited to do in Robert Wood Johnson Hospital?

Answer 4

Sickest of the sick heart patients