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Philip R. Lee, M.D., is Senior Scholar at the Institute for Health Policy Studies and Professor Emeritus of Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), School of Medicine. He has been a member of the UCSF faculty since 1969. Dr. Lee has also been a Consulting Professor in Human Biology, Stanford University since 1997, where he teaches undergraduate courses on health policy.
From July 1993 through January 1997, Dr. Lee was Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Before going to Washington, he was Director of the Institute for Health Policy Studies, which he founded with Lewis Butler at UCSF in 1972. He was chancellor of UCSF from 1969 to 1972. Prior to that he was Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (1965–1969) and Director of Health Services in the Agency for International Development (1963–1965). Dr. Lee has frequently been an adviser to federal, state, and local health policymakers.
Dr. Lee received his M.D. from Stanford in 1948 and M.S. from the University of Minnesota in 1955. He began his career in health as a practicing internist. He is the author or co-author of more than 150 articles and numerous books in the health field. He received the David Rogers Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges (1999), the Institute of Medicine’s Gustav O. Lienhard Award (2000), the American Public Health Association’s Sedgwick Medal (2000), and the Henrik Blum Award presented by the California Public Health Association (2001). November 2001
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