May M Lee, MD

Title(s)Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (Clinician Educator)
SchoolKeck School of Medicine of Usc
Address2020 Zonal Ave, IRD 733
Health Sciences Campus
Los Angeles CA 90033
ORCID ORCID Icon0000-0001-7899-0401 Additional info
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    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


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    Wesleyan University, Middletown, CTBA 1996Sociology
    State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NYMD2003
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    State University of New York at Stony Brook2000  - 2003Arthur Berken Fellowship Winner
    State University of New York at Stony Brook2003  - 2003M.D. with Distinction in Humanistic Studies
    American Thoracic Society2009  - 2009Travel Award Winner
    American Thoracic Society2009  - 2009Highlighted Abstract
    Mount Sinai Research Day 2016  - 2016First Place, Poster Competition
    American College of Chest Physicians2012  - 2012Elected Fellow, FCCP
    American College of Physicians2013  - 2013Elected fellow, FACP
    American Thoracic Society2018  - 2018Elected fellow, ATSF
    Internal Medicine Residency program, LAC+USC2020  - 2020Teacher of the Year
    Los Angeles Business Journal2021  - 2021LA's Top Doctors

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    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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    1. 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. 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; PMCID: PMC8042568.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 8     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    2. 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; PMCID: PMC8043273.
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    3. 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; PMCID: PMC7537943.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 41     Fields:    Translation:HumansCellsPHPublic Health
    4. 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; PMCID: PMC8043309.
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    5. 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.
    6. 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.
    7. 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; PMCID: PMC6952036.
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    8. 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; PMCID: PMC6902129.
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    9. '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.
    10. 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; PMCID: PMC4942516.
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    11. Intermittent hypoxia-induced endothelial barrier dysfunction requires ROS-dependent MAP kinase activation. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 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; PMCID: PMC3989715.
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    12. 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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