May M Lee, MD, MHA

Dr. May Lee is a Professor of Medicine currently serving as the Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) Fellowship Training Program and the Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Lee earned her MD from the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University in New York, graduating with distinction in humanistic studies. She completed her Internal Medicine residency, PCCM fellowship, and post-doctoral research program at the University of Chicago.

Nationally recognized for her contributions to medical education, Dr. Lee is the Immediate-Past-President of the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors (APCCMPD) and serves on committees for the American Thoracic Society and the American College of Chest Physicians. She is actively involved on the editorial boards of ATS Scholar and Chest Pearls, and her work is widely published and presented at both local and national levels.

• Los Angeles Business Journal: Leaders of Influence: LAs Top Doctors 2023, 2023-2023
• Association of University Programs in Health Administration: Upsilon Phi Delta Honor Society, 2023-2023
• Journal of Graduate Medical Education: 2023 Outstanding Reviewer, 2023-2023
• American College of Chest Physicians : Women Leaders in Chest Medicine Honoree, 2023-2023
• Los Angeles Business Journal: 2021 LAs Top Doctors, 2021-2021
• Internal Medicine Residency Program, University of Southern California/LAC+USC: Teacher of the Year, 2020-2020
• American Thoracic Society: Travel Award Winner, 2009-2009
• Neurobiology Assembly, American Thoracic Society: Highlighted Abstract, 2009-2009
• SUNY at Stony Brook: Arthur Berken Fellow, 2000-2003

• Impact of ATS Resident Boot Camp on Faculty and Fellows who Teach ATS Sch. 2024 Jun 01; 5(2):247-253. . View in PubMed
• Beyond the Individual: A Multidisciplinary Model for Critical Thinking in the Intensive Care Unit Adv Med Educ Pract. 2024; 15:409-417. . View in PubMed
• Putting the “Whole” in Holistic Review ATS Sch. 2023 Dec; 4(4):393-395. . View in PubMed
• Kolb Meets Quality: Applying Learning Theory to a Process Improvement and Safety Curriculum ATS Sch. 2023 Dec; 4(4):431-440. . View in PubMed
• The Virtual Interview Experience: Perspectives of Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Applicants ATS Sch. 2022 Mar; 3(1):76-86. . View in PubMed
• COVID-19: Highlighting Health Disparities in the Los Angeles Latinx Community Clin Med Res. 2021 12; 19(4):161-168. . View in PubMed
• Evaluation of Time-Limited Trials Among Critically Ill Patients With Advanced Medical Illnesses and Reduction of Nonbeneficial ICU Treatments JAMA Intern Med. 2021 06 01; 181(6):786-794. . View in PubMed
• Development of a National Academic Boot Camp to Improve Fellowship Readiness ATS Sch. 2020 Dec 22; 2(1):49-65. . View in PubMed
• Updated guidance on the management of COVID-19: from an American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society coordinated International Task Force (29 July 2020) Eur Respir Rev. 2020 Sep 30; 29(157). . View in PubMed
• Communication Training in Adult and Pediatric Critical Care MedicineA Systematic Review. ATS Sch. 2020 Jul 14; 1(3):316-330. . View in PubMed
• The effect of using vitamin c, hydrocortisone and thiamine triple therapy in the treatment of septic shock – a randomized clinical trial – pilot study EC Emergency Medicine and Critical Care. 2020; 109-118. . View in PubMed
• Feasibility of a Critical Care Ultrasound Curriculum Delivered Through Facebook Cureus. 2019 Dec 11; 11(12):e6349. . View in PubMed
• Time-Limited Trials Among Critically Ill Patients With Advanced Medical Illnesses to Reduce Nonbeneficial Intensive Care Unit Treatments: Protocol for a Multicenter Quality Improvement Study JMIR Res Protoc. 2019 Nov 25; 8(11):e16301. . View in PubMed
• Trainee’s perceptions and practices on social media at one internal medicine program and its potential uses in graduate medical education MedEdPublish. 2019; 2(8). . View in PubMed
• Potential impact of a bedside procedure service on training procedurally competent hospitalists in a community-based residency program J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect. 2016; 6(3):31054. . View in PubMed
• Intermittent hypoxia-induced endothelial barrier dysfunction requires ROS-dependent MAP kinase activation Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2014 Apr 15; 306(8):C745-52. . View in PubMed
• Medical students’ perceptions of racial diversity and gender equality Med Educ. 2006 Jul; 40(7):691-6. . View in PubMed

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