Cindy Lee MD, FSBI, FACMQ, CMQ

Cindy Lee, MD, FSBI, FACMQ, CMQ, is the Chief of Breast Imaging and Vice Chair of Clinical Research and Faculty Affairs at the Stony Brook Renaissance School of Medicine. She graduated in the top 3% of her undergraduate class and medical school class at State University of New York at Stony Brook. She completed her radiology residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and served as a Resident Scholar for the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She then completed a breast and ultrasound fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, where she taught medical trainees as an Assistant Professor, before joining NYU in 2017. She was recruited to Stony Brook in 2023 for her clinical expertise and research in breast cancer screening performance. 

In addition to clinical training, Dr. Lee is board-certified in medical quality by the American Board of Medical Quality. Recognized for expertise in quality improvement, she was named the Stephen Amis Fellow in Quality and Safety by the American College of Radiology, as well as a Quality Scholar by the American College of Medical Quality (ACMQ) in 2012. Cindy also served as the Scientific Program Chair for the ACMQ Annual Meeting from 2016-2018 and was appointed to the ACMQ Board of Trustees in 2019 to provide leadership and education in healthcare quality management.

Her research focuses on improving patient outcomes by optimizing screening performance audits through her outcome research with the ACR National Mammography Database. As the former Chair of the NMD research subcommittee, she led and first-authored the landmark study on NMD screening performance benchmarks and continues to work with the NMD on studies evaluating personalized screening for breast cancer. She has over 60 publications and has given multiple lectures nationally and internationally.