Professor in Residence-HCOMP
M_MED-CORE-GERI

Sei Lee is an Professor in the Division of Geriatrics and Senior Scholar for the San Francisco VA Quality Scholars fellowship. His research focuses on improving the targeting of preventive interventions in older adults to maximize benefits and minimize harms. Dr. Lee attended medical school at the University of Illinois-Rockford, then moved to UCSF where he completed Primary Care Internal Medicine residency and a Geriatric Medicine fellowship. He also completed the VA Quality Scholars fellowship, receiving advanced training in methodologies related to healthcare quality from the San Francisco VA and obtained a Master’s degree in clinical research from UCSF.

Dr. Lee joined the Division of Geriatrics faculty in 2007. Dr. Lee’s research examines how a patient’s health status can help individualize preventive and treatment decisions, with a special focus on diabetes care for frail nursing home residents. Dr. Lee is an expert in clinical prediction and has published research on predicting mortality, functional decline, dementia and pneumonia. In his clinical work, Dr. Lee supervises and trains residents, fellows and medical students while providing care for internal medicine and palliative care patients at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

When not at work, he's usually trying to entertain his 3 kids. He enjoys commuting on his scooter, hiking and mountain biking.

Publications

Geriatric Syndromes and Mortality Among Hospitalized Older Adults.

JAMA network open

Avelino-Silva TJ, Roma MFB, Dutra AF, Malheiro A, Speranza ACC, Casale AMC, Lopes BNA, Almada-Filho CM, de Sousa DV, Marques da Silva E, Sepulveda F, Garcez FB, Constantino GT, Keller GS, Braga ILS, Gordilho Souza J, Teixeira JJM, Rodrigues da Silva Martins K, Moraes Dias L, Araujo LMQ, Macedo LAC, de Andrade LG, Prado LKP, Venegas-Sanabria LC, Freitas MPD, Saraiva MDC, Bicalho MAC, Arbex MCFB, Pires ME, Guedes MMV, Borges MMG, Gorzoni ML, Bezerra MR, Garção NIB, Palmeira NGF, Lima NKC, Moreira-Filho OG, Villas Boas PJF, de Almeida PQ, Dip RM, Bandeira de Mello RG, Aruachan SA, Karnakis T, Pintarelli VL, Amorim WWCC, Dieguez Ferreira Y, Covinsky KE, Ferriolli E, Lee SJ, Smith AK, Suemoto CK, Aliberti MJR, CHANGE Study Group