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Faculty/Student Awards STONY BROOK, NY, March 17, 2006 – Christopher S. Lee, M.D., has been named Assistant Professor in the Departments of Urology and Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Stony Brook University Hospital.
Dr. Lee serves as the director of the Genitourinary Cancer Vaccine Program and the Minimally Invasive Urologic Oncology Program. His clinical focus is treating prostate cancer and bladder cancer patients by using minimally invasive approaches, namely advanced laparoscopic and robotic applications in surgery, as well as the use of adjuvant immunotherapy and chemotherapy. He is an expert in the field of robotic surgery. In 2003, Dr. Lee performed the first successful robotic prostatectomy in the Washington, DC, area while practicing at Walter Reed Medical Center. Dr. Lee comes to Stony Brook from New York University (NYU) Medical Center where he practiced in the Department of Urology and was Director of Translational Research at the NYU Cancer Institute. He was the principal investigator on numerous clinical trials, including two trials evaluating prostate cancer vaccines for hormone-refractory prostate cancer. He is working to reopen these prostate cancer vaccine trials at Stony Brook. He received his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - New Jersey School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Montefiore, N.Y., and completed two fellowships, one in Tumor Immunology and the other in Urologic Oncology. Both fellowships were at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Md. Dr. Lee received NCI’s National Research Service Award in 1999. From 2002 to 2004 he was an American Foundation of Urologic Diseases Scholar at NCI. He is a member of the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Clinical Oncologists, American Association of Cancer Research, American Urologic Association, and the Society of Urologic Oncology. Dr. Lee lives in Setauket with his wife, Soo Hee. -30- © Copyright 2012 by Stony Brook University |
