University of Kansas School of Medicine Dept of Population Health
Kansas City, KS
Simon Craddock Lee, PhD MPH is chair and Sosland Family Professor in Preventive Medicine in the Department of Population Health at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. A medical anthropologist, Dr. Lee’s expertise lies at the intersection of cancer care delivery research and implementation science, designing and conducting pragmatic trials to optimize care for under- and uninsured patients in clinical safety-net settings.
A standing member for eight years on the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center IRB, Dr. Lee has served on the central IRB for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) and recently co-chaired the Intervention work group of the Steering Committee for an NCORP Clinical Trials Planning Meeting in cancer care delivery research. He currently serves on the CCDR Steering Committee for the Wake Forest NCORP Research Base.
A Yale graduate, Dr. Lee received his MPH from the University of California, Berkeley in health policy and administration and his doctorate from the Joint Program in Medical Anthropology at University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley. He completed postdoctoral training in Bethesda MD through the NCI Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program on the ethics of prevention and public health track. A Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, he has held multiple leadership positions in the American Anthropological Association, including a presidential appointment to the committee on ethics. He is president-elect of Population Health Leaders in Academic Medicine, an affiliate of the AAMC Council of Faculty & Academic Societies.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
10:15 AM – 11:30 AM ET