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Forrester Lee, MD

Professor Emeritus of Medicine (Cardiology)
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Cardiovascular Medicine

PO Box 208017, 333 Cedar Street

New Haven, CT 06520-8056

United States

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Professor Emeritus of Medicine (Cardiology)

Biography

Dr. Forrester (“Woody”) Lee, Professor of Medicine, earned Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude honors from Dartmouth College and Yale School of Medicine. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital where he was a Chief Resident. He continued at Yale to complete a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine, joined the Yale faculty and was promoted to full professor. Dr. Lee has served as Medical Director of the Yale-New Haven Cardiac Transplantation and Heart Failure Program and acting Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine. He was the Associate Dean of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at Yale School of Medicine. During his career Dr. Lee has published articles in the fields of heart failure, transplantation, methods of cardiac imaging and health disparities. He has developed programs to increased diversity among students and faculty and to improve the opportunities for underrepresented minority students to pursue careers in biomedical science. He is the principal investigator on major grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is co-author with James Pringle, A Noble and Independent Course, the Life of the Reverend Edward Mitchel, the first person of African descent to graduate from Dartmouth College and the Ivy League (Dartmouth Press, 2018).

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Education & Training

Fellow
Yale University School of Medicine (1985)
Chief Medical Resident
Internal Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital (1983)
Resident
Yale-New Haven Hospital (1982)
MD
Yale University (1979)

Board Certifications

  • Cardiovascular Disease

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    1987
  • Internal Medicine

    Certification Organization
    AB of Internal Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    1983

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Cardiology; Cultural Diversity; Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation; Heart Failure; Heart Rate; Minority Health

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Forrester Lee's published research.

Publications

2020

2019

2018

2016

2014

  • Lee FA and Mahieu, E. Cosinor Analysis of Biorhythm Data,Wolfram Demonstrations http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/CosinorAnalysisOfBiorhythmData/, Mar 20, 2014
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research

2011

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Cardiovascular Medicine

PO Box 208017, 333 Cedar Street

New Haven, CT 06520-8056

United States