Margaret S. Lee, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Dermatology Director of Pediatric Dermatology

Summary

Margaret Lee, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine. She earned her MD from BUSM in 1999 and a PhD in Pathology & Laboratory Medicine in 2005. She trained for a year in pediatrics at SUNY Downstate, followed by the BU-Tufts Combined Dermatology Residency Program and a combined fellowship in pediatric dermatology and the Stuart & Jane Weitzman Family fellowship in vascular anomalies at Boston Children’s Hospital. She returned to BUSM to serve as Director of Pediatric Dermatology after several years at Boston Children’s. Her career focus is psychosocial health and patient-oriented outcomes, outreach, education and support.

Additionally, Dr. Lee co-founded the BUSM Creative Arts Society and its literary journal, Whorl, as a first-year medical student and now serves as its co-faculty advisor. Dr. Lee more recently 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. Through all of her personal and professional endeavors she promotes the power of the arts and creativity in health and wellness.

Clinical Specialties & Interests

  • Pediatric Dermatology
  • Psychosocial Health & Coping
  • Vascular Anomalies/Birthmarks


Select Publications

  1. Mumber HE, Rashid S, Carey G, Navarro A, Oh E, Nasir M, Lee MS. Impact of a Comfortable in our Skin interactive workshop on social media awareness and self-confidence in adolescents. Pediatr Dermatol. 2022 Jul;39(4):553-556. doi: 10.1111/pde.15011. Epub 2022 May 3. PMID: 35503183.
  2. Zambare WV, Tocci E, Sideridis G, Wilhelm S, Keuthen N, Fogler J, Lee MS. The pediatric dermatology psychosocial screen: Promoting psychosocial coping and early identification of mental illness in pediatric dermatology patients. Pediatr Dermatol. 2022 Mar;39(2):226-230. doi: 10.1111/pde.14914. Epub 2022 Feb 17. PMID: 35178722.
  3. Dennin MH, Lee MS. Body dysmorphic disorder in pediatric dermatology. Pediatr Dermatol. 2018 Nov;35(6):868-874.
  4. Liu KX, Prajapati VH, Liang MG, Mulliken JB, Lee MS. A cross-sectional survey of long-term outcomes for patients with diffuse capillary malformation with overgrowth. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2018 May;78(5):1023-1025.
  5. LeBovidge JS, Elverson W, Timmons KG, Hawryluk EB, Rea C, Lee M, Schneider LC. Multidisciplinary interventions in the management of atopic dermatitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2016 Aug;138(2):325-34.
  6. Galand C, Leyva-Castillo JM, Yoon J, Han A, Lee MS, McKenzie AN, Stassen M, Oyoshi MK, Finkelman FD, Geha RS. IL-33 promotes food anaphylaxis in epicutaneously sensitized mice by targeting mast cells. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2016 Jun 2. pii: S0091-6749(16)30369-4.
  7. Lee MS, Liang MG, Mulliken JB. Diffuse capillary malformation with overgrowth: A clinical subtype of disorders with vascular malformations and hypertrophy. J Amer Acad Dermatol 2013 Oct;69(4):589-94.

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