{"id":11161,"date":"2024-02-05T16:11:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T21:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/derm\/?page_id=11161"},"modified":"2024-02-05T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T21:14:42","slug":"dr-margaret-lee-named-februarys-distinguished-faculty-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/derm\/dr-margaret-lee-named-februarys-distinguished-faculty-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Margaret Lee Named February\u2019s Distinguished Faculty of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/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\u00a0<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 \u201cKick Back Kafe\u201d underscores her multifaceted contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/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<footer class=\"meta\">\n<h4 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2024\/02\/01\/margaret-lee-md-phd-named-februarys-distinguished-faculty-of-the-month\/\">Margaret Lee, MD, PhD, Named February\u2019s Distinguished Faculty of the Month\u00a0<\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"postedDateCategory\"><em class=\"posted\">Posted<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"date-offset\">4 days ago<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><em class=\"on\">on<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"date\"><time datetime=\"Thursday, February 1st, 2024\" pubdate=\"\">Thursday, February 1st, 2024<\/time><\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"categories\"><em>in<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/category\/awards-honors\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Awards &amp; Honors<\/a>,<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/category\/faculty-affairs\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Faculty Affairs<\/a>,<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/news-events\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Featured<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty Affairs Office is pleased to announce that Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Pediatrics\u00a0Margaret Lee, MD, PhD, has been named February\u2019s Distinguished Faculty of the Month.\u00a0 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18554,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/derm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/derm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/derm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/derm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/derm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/derm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11166,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/derm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11161\/revisions\/11166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/derm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}