Bruce Y. Lee, M.D., MBA

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology,

and Biomedical Informatics

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Dr. Lee is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh.  He is also Core Faculty in the Section for Decision Sciences and Clinical Systems Modeling, the Center for Research in Health Care, and the RAND-University of Pittsburgh Health Institute. He is a Co-Investigator for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Models of Infectious Diseases Agent Study (MIDAS) research and informatics network and a recently awarded Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant to use computational models to study vaccine development and administration. One of his roles for MIDAS is to co-direct the working group on Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).  He leads a research group, Public Health and Infectious Diseases Computational and Operations Research (PHICOR), which specializes in constructing computer simulations to better understand the spread and impact of infectious diseases and operations (such as vaccine development and administration) to prevent and control their spread.   

His previous positions include serving as Senior Manager at Quintiles Transnational, working in biotechnology equity research at Montgomery Securities, and co-founding Integrigen, a biotechnology company.  Dr. Lee also is the author of three books, including the forthcoming Principles and Practices of Clinical Trial Medicine.  

Dr. Lee received his B.A. from Harvard University, M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, having completed his residency training at the University of California, San Diego.