{"id":119236,"date":"2024-02-01T08:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?p=119236"},"modified":"2024-02-01T08:08:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T13:08:06","slug":"margaret-lee-md-phd-named-februarys-distinguished-faculty-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2024\/02\/01\/margaret-lee-md-phd-named-februarys-distinguished-faculty-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Lee, MD, PhD, Named February\u2019s Distinguished Faculty of the Month\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2024\/01\/MSLee-headshot-e1706560542547.jpg\" alt=\"Head and shoulders of woman with shoulder length dark straight hair parted in middle, wearing mauve colored shirt, smiling\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-119237\" width=\"150\" height=\"224\" \/>The Faculty Affairs Office is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.bu.edu\/Margaret.Lee\">Margaret Lee<\/a>, MD, PhD, has been named February\u2019s Distinguished Faculty of the Month.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lee earned her MD from BU in 1999 and a PhD in pathology &amp; laboratory medicine in 2005. She completed an internship in pediatrics at SUNY Downstate, followed by the BU-Tufts Combined Dermatology Residency Program and fellowship in pediatric dermatology and the Stuart &amp; Jane Weitzman Family fellowship in vascular anomalies at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>She returned to BU and Boston Medical Center as director of pediatric dermatology in 2016 after several years at Boston Children\u2019s. Lee co-founded the Creative Arts Society and its literary journal, Whorl, as a first-year medical student and now serves as its co-faculty advisor. More recently, she founded the nonprofit Comfortable in Our Skin, a youth-oriented peer support and resource organization that promotes self-acceptance, diversity and a healthy identity within our skin and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Her nominators said, \u201cDr. Lee\u2019s instructions encompass the significance of multiculturalism and diverse viewpoints. She is committed to teaching and the well-being of students. Dr. Lee shows outstanding leadership in leading research teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer instrumental role in organizing the annual &#8220;Kick Back Kafe&#8221; underscores her multifaceted contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2022\/11\/DistinguishedFaculty_Updated_2022-e1669225006593.png\" alt=\"Graphic image of red and white badge for distinguished faculty from Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109094 alignleft\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her nominators said, \u201cDr. Lee\u2019s instructions encompass the significance of multiculturalism and diverse viewpoints. She is committed to teaching and the well-being of students.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,146,91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119322,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119236\/revisions\/119322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}