Wei-ping Andrew Lee MD

Dr. Wei-Ping Andrew Lee is a professor of orthopaedic surgery and plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He serves as director of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and is the inaugural Milton T. Edgerton Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. A pioneer in hand transplants, Dr. Lee performed the nation’s first double-hand transplant in May 2009 and was among the first to perform a single hand transplant in the United States in March 2009. He also performed the nation’s first above-elbow transplant. Dr. Lee received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he also completed his general surgery residency and microvascular research fellowship. He completed his plastic surgery fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and his orthopedic hand fellowship at the Indiana Hand Center. In 1993, he joined the plastic surgery faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and became the director of the Plastic Surgery Research Laboratory and chief of hand service in Department of Surgery. In 2002, Dr. Lee was appointed as the Division Chief of Plastic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. He joined Johns Hopkins in 2010 as the inaugural chairman of its newly established Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.