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Vivian S. Lee (born September 1966) is an American radiologist and health care executive. The president of Verily Health Platforms (Alphabet, Google). Lee is the author of the book, The Long Fix: Solving America's Health Care Crisis with Strategies That Work for Everyone (W.W. Norton, 2020). A senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Lee is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2019, she was named No. 11 in Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. Raised in Norman, Oklahoma and trained in biomedical engineering and medicine, Lee established an NIH-funded research program in magnetic resonance imaging at NYU. She was elected Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in 2006 and served as the president in 2008–2009. For her scientific discoveries, she was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the National Academy of Medicine. Among her leadership roles in academic medicine, Lee served as the inaugural chief scientific officer and vice dean for science at NYU Langone Medical Center, and prior to that as the vice-chair for research in the Department of Radiology. For six years, she served as the CEO of University of Utah Health, dean of the University of Utah School of Medicine and senior vice-president for health sciences of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. During her tenure as dean, she was elected to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Council of Deans Administrative Board and served on the National Institutes of Health Council of Councils, advisory to the director. She is also a member of the advisory boards of the Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) External Advisory Board, and on the Defense Health Board of the Department of Defense. She serves as Editor-at-Large for New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst. Lee has studied the management and improvement of health care, with an emphasis on data measurement and feedback to create learning health systems and her work has demonstrated the virtuous cycle of improved patient-centeredness, higher quality with better outcomes, and lower costs. She is married to international legal scholar Benedict Kingsbury. Lee also serves on the board of directors of the American Association of Rhodes Scholars, and is also a director of Zions Bancorporation. (en) |
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Vivian S. Lee (born September 1966) is an American radiologist and health care executive. The president of Verily Health Platforms (Alphabet, Google). Lee is the author of the book, The Long Fix: Solving America's Health Care Crisis with Strategies That Work for Everyone (W.W. Norton, 2020). A senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Lee is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2019, she was named No. 11 in Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. (en) |
