Lois Lee’s work focuses on pediatric emergency medicine, injuries, health disparities, and health policy. This is grounded in her clinical work as a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. At Boston Children’s Hospital, she is the associate program director for public policy at the Sandra L. Fenwick Institute for Pediatric Health Equity and Inclusion.

She received her M.D. at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and her pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. During that time, she also received her M.P.H. at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. She was also the inaugural Nick Littlefield Health Policy fellow at the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI) in 2016-2017.

Dr. Lee has published seminal research on pediatric emergency medicine, health disparities, and injury prevention, including those related to firearms. With her expertise, she is chair of the AAP’s Council on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention. She was the inaugural director of the Academic Pediatric Association’s Health Policy Scholars Program, a career development program focused on health policy and advocacy, and currently serves on their Executive Committee. Her expertise has been recognized with her election as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2023. With her passion for improving the lives of children, she promotes child health through her clinical work, research, teaching, and advocacy.