Lee-may Chen MD, FACS, FACOG

Dr. Lee-may Chen is a board certified in gynecologic oncology as well as hospice palliative medicine. Dr. Chen specializes in gynecologic malignancies at the University of California, San Francisco, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Chen has a particular interest in surgical and medical management of ovarian cancer. Her research focuses on early detection in women who are at a high risk of developing gynecological cancer, symptom management, decision-making in the treatment of gynecologic cancers and the effects of psychosocial support on patients.

Dr. Chen is an active clinician and surgeon and is the principal investigator of several novel chemotherapeutic clinical trials in gynecologic cancers through the Gynecologic Oncology Group. As a clinical professor, she is highly involved in the academic development and training of fellows, residents and medical students at UCSF, and was elected to the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators in 2008. She is also a member of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology. On a national level, Dr. Chen has worked on the creation of a formal learning objectives program with leaders from the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists. Her research projects involving hereditary gynecologic cancer risk and treatment have been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology and Obstetrics and Gynecology, among other influential medical journals.