May Lee • USC Profiles

May M Lee, MD

Title(s)	Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (Clinician Educator)
Address	2020 Zonal Ave, IRD 733 Health Sciences Campus Los Angeles CA 90033
ORCID	0000-0001-7899-0401
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Other Positions


Title(s)	Program Director, PCCSM
Title(s)	Director of the ICU at the LAC+USC Medical Center

Title(s)	Interim Cabinet Member for the Interim Chief of PCCSM

Biography

Education and Training

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT	BA	1996	Sociology
State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY	MD	2003

Awards and Honors

State University of New York at Stony Brook	2000 -	2003	Arthur Berken Fellowship Winner
State University of New York at Stony Brook	2003 -	2003	M.D. with Distinction in Humanistic Studies
American Thoracic Society	2009 -	2009	Travel Award Winner
American Thoracic Society	2009 -	2009	Highlighted Abstract
Mount Sinai Research Day	2016 -	2016	First Place, Poster Competition
American College of Chest Physicians	2012 -	2012	Elected Fellow, FCCP
American College of Physicians	2013 -	2013	Elected fellow, FACP
American Thoracic Society	2018 -	2018	Elected fellow, ATSF
Internal Medicine Residency program, LAC+USC	2020 -	2020	Teacher of the Year
Los Angeles Business Journal	2021 -	2021	LA's Top Doctors

Overview

Dr. Lee’s clinical interests are in critical care medicine as well as medical education. She is currently the medical director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at the LAC+USC Medical Center. Dr. Lee has long been active as an educator both in and out of medicine - from teaching at an outdoor adventure-based program for “at-risk” youth, to developing new curriculum for 6th graders, and serving as Program Director of an Internal Medicine residency program in Chicago IL – Dr. Lee has innovated and created new educational programs and teaching modalities for her all her trainees. She is currently the Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship program at USC. She is active in PCCM society committees, working on curriculum building and educational programming on the national level.

Dr. Lee earned her medical degree from the Stony Brook University Medical School in New York. She then went on to complete her residency training in Internal Medicine followed by Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship training as well as a Post-Doctoral Research program at the University of Chicago.

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Evaluation of Time-Limited Trials Among Critically Ill Patients With Advanced Medical Illnesses and Reduction of Nonbeneficial ICU Treatments. JAMA Intern Med. 2021 Jun 01; 181(6):786-794. Chang DW, Neville TH, Parrish J, Ewing L, Rico C, Jara L, Sim D, Tseng CH, van Zyl C, Storms AD, Kamangar N, Liebler JM, Lee MM, Yee HF. PMID: 33843946.

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Int Internal Medicine
Development of a National Academic Boot Camp to Improve Fellowship Readiness. ATS Sch. 2020 Dec 22; 2(1):49-65. Drake MG, Shah NG, Lee M, Brady A, Connors GR, Clark BJ, Kritek PA, McCallister JW, Burkart KM, Pedraza I, Jamieson D, Ingram JL, Lynch L, Makani SS, Siegel-Gasiewski J, Larsson EM, Zemanick ET, Liptzin DR, Good R, Crotty Alexander LE. PMID: 33870323.

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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). Bai C, Chotirmall SH, Rello J, Alba GA, Ginns LC, Krishnan JA, Rogers R, Bendstrup E, Burgel PR, Chalmers JD, Chua A, Crothers KA, Duggal A, Kim YW, Laffey JG, Luna CM, Niederman MS, Raghu G, Ramirez JA, Riera J, Roca O, Tamae-Kakazu M, Torres A, Watkins RR, Barrecheguren M, Belliato M, Chami HA, Chen R, Cortes-Puentes GA, Delacruz C, Hayes MM, Heunks LMA, Holets SR, Hough CL, Jagpal S, Jeon K, Johkoh T, Lee MM, Liebler J, McElvaney GN, Moskowitz A, Oeckler RA, Ojanguren I, O'Regan A, Pletz MW, Rhee CK, Schultz MJ, Storti E, Strange C, Thomson CC, Torriani FJ, Wang X, Wuyts W, Xu T, Yang D, Zhang Z, Wilson KC. PMID: 33020069.

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Pul Pulmonary Medicine
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Communication Training in Adult and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. A Systematic Review. ATS Sch. 2020 Jul 14; 1(3):316-330. Mendez MP, Patel H, Talan J, Doering M, Chiarchiaro J, Sternschein RM, Steinbach TC, O'Toole J, Sankari A, McCallister JW, Lee MM, Carlos WG, Lyons PG. PMID: 33870298.

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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; 4(6):109-118. Ronaghi R, Fan K, Rees J, Baghdasaryan P, Tang J, Quinn A, Spieling S, Lee M, Baydur A. View Publication.
COVID‐19: Interim Guidance on Management Pending Empirical Evidence. From an American Thoracic Society‐led International Task Force. American Thoracic Society’s website. 2020. Kevin C. Wilson1, 2, Sanjay H. Chotirmall3, Chunxue Bai4, and Jordi Rello5 on behalf of the International Task Force on COVID-19. View Publication.
Feasibility of a Critical Care Ultrasound Curriculum Delivered Through Facebook. Cureus. 2019 Dec 11; 11(12):e6349. Li S, Lee-Chang A, Yaghmour B, Khan R, Lieber J, Lee MM. PMID: 31938635.

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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. Chang D, Parrish J, Kamangar N, Liebler J, Lee M, Neville T. PMID: 31763988.

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'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):46. Lee M, Fung C. View Publication.
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. Montuno A, Hunt BR, Lee MM. PMID: 27406445.

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Intermittent hypoxia-induced endothelial barrier dysfunction requires ROS-dependent MAP kinase activation. . 2014 Apr 15; 306(8):C745-52. Makarenko VV, Usatyuk PV, Yuan G, Lee MM, Nanduri J, Natarajan V, Kumar GK, Prabhakar NR. PMID: 24477234.

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Medical students' perceptions of racial diversity and gender equality. Med Educ. 2006 Jul; 40(7):691-6. Lee M, Coulehan JL. PMID: 16836543.

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Edu Education
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