Dr. Lee joined the faculty in the University of Arizona Department of Medicine/Division of Rheumatology after completing his rheumatology fellowship at the UArizona in 2022. He earned dual bachelor's degrees in biology and economics at Siena College before going on to complete his medical doctorate at Albany Medical College. He performed his internal medicine residency at Pennsylvania State University in Hershey, Pa.
While in medical school, Dr. Lee was awarded the Outstanding Teacher Award and Best Poster Award. He was also a nominee for the Gold Society, recognizing outstanding achievement in teaching. Dr. Lee has presented at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting (Tie-1 Prevalence in RA, 2019) and has performed research on Rheumatoid Arthritis disease activity monitoring QI (quality improvement). In the summer of 2014, he served as an intern with the World Health Organization (WHO) working on Chikungunya Virus epidemiological tables during this epidemic. He also worked on the economic cost of antibiotic resistance and later presented his research to AMC’s global health interest group in 2015.