Biography

Stephanie L. Lee, Ph.D., M.D., F.A.C.E., E.C.N.U., earned a Ph.D. degree in Physiology/Pharmacology and a M.D. degree from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in La Jolla, California. Dr. Lee is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine and Director of the Thyroid Health Center and the Thyroid Nodule and Cancer Research Center at the Boston Medical Center. Dr. Lee has designed the BMC Health Center to be a comprehensive multidisciplinary center for the evaluation and treatment of patients with thyroid nodules and cancer that will promote translational research targeted to improve diagnosis and management of patients with thyroid disease. Dr. Lee coordinates all aspects of patient care for the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid diseases including formal dosimetry studies for life-threatening cases of thyroid cancer. She participated in writing the 2006 and the 2009 American Thyroid Association evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and management of thyroid nodules and cancer in the 2013 Endocrine Society Guideline on thyroid hormone therapy. Dr. Lee has been recognized for her outstanding skills as an educator and clinician with the 2009 Robert Evans Dawson Clinician Award from the Department of Medicine at the Boston Medical Center. She continues her teaching efforts including a monthly column on the imaging of endocrine disease in internationally distributed endocrine newspaper, Endocrine Today. Dr. Lee is an actively participating member of The Endocrinology Society, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the American Thyroid Association. She has served in the past as a member of the American Thyroid Association Board of Directors and is currently an active board member of the New England Chapter of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.

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