Joyce Lee MD

Joyce Mee Kyoung Lee, M.D., M.P.H., is the Robert P. Kelch, MD Research Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School and Professor at the Medical School and the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She serves as Associate Chief Medical Information Officer (ACMIO) for Pediatric Research at Michigan Medicine, Associate Chair for Health Metrics and Learning Health Systems for the Department of Pediatrics, Ambulatory Care Clinical Chief for Pediatric Medical Subspecialties for the University of Michigan Medical Group, and Associate Director for Informatics and Clinical Research Innovation for the Caswell Diabetes Institute. Through these roles, she leverages her health informatics expertise with the Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Tableau business intelligence software to support operations, enhance quality and safety, and accelerate research discovery, with the ultimate goal of creating learning health systems for child health. In 2009, Dr. Lee was named a Brehm Investigator by the Brehm Center for Type 1 Diabetes Research. In 2012, she was a visiting scholar at in Child Health Policy at Stanford University and in 2015 was a visiting scholar at Google Life Sciences (now Verily). At the 2016 Pediatric Academic Societies meeting, she was the first recipient of the Paul Kaplowitz, MD, Endowed Lectureship for contributions to quality and cost-effective care in Pediatric Endocrinology, an award sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Endocrine Society. She was named the Robert P. Kelch, MD Research Professor of Pediatrics in 2016.

She is a pediatric translational researcher, has over 130 peer-reviewed publications, and has served as a Principal Investigator on multiple NIH grants. Her work in healthcare involves an extensive range of projects and approaches that have focused on type 1 diabetes and the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity. In 2018, Dr. Lee’s scholarship expanded to the creation of Learning Health Systems. To support this work, she completed the Advanced Methods in Quality Improvement course at Cincinnati Children’s (2018), became an Epic Physician Builder (2017), and achieved proficiency in Clarity, the Epic database (2018,) and has skills in the development of Tableau dashboards. Her leadership roles in informatics allow her to support this Learning Health System vision for child health. Her current areas of research include leveraging health information technology for measuring patient-reported/psychosocial/clinical outcomes, collaboration with human computing interaction and machine learning/artificial intelligence experts to understand how data can be used to solve real world healthcare problems, patient-focused data literacy and data engagement interventions, and low-carbohydrate nutrition and real-time continuous glucose monitoring interventions for pediatric prediabetes.