Myung-Moo Lee, MD

Biography

Instructor

Clinical Science

Dr. Myung-Moo Lee is a Southern California Permanente Medical Group physician specializing in dermatology. Dr. Lee has served as assistant area medical director at Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center for more than two decades, and has also served on several Kaiser Permanente committees as both a clinician and administrator.

Education and Training

Degrees: BS, magna cum laude, Vanderbilt University
MD, Northwestern University Medical School

Internship: Intern, Department of Internal Medicine, Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center

Residency: Resident, Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School

Fellowship: Research Fellow, Laboratory of Molecular Dermatologic Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Fellow, Health Care Leadership Program, California Health Care Foundation

Professional Positions

Staff Dermatologist: United States Air Force Keesler Medical Center; 1994-1996

Associate Physician: Southern California Permanente Medical Group; 1996

Partner Physician: Southern California Permanente Medical Group; 1999

Chief of Service, Department of Dermatology: Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Service Area; 2001-2011

Chair, Credentialing and Privileging Committee: Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center; 2009-present

Assistant Area Medical Director: Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center; 2011-present

Chair, Consult Optimization Action Team: Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center; 2012-present

Honors and Awards

Phi Beta Kappa: Vanderbilt University; 1982

United States Air Force, Health Professions Scholarship Program: Northwestern University Medical School; 1983-1987

Fellow: American Academy of Dermatology; 1993-present

Scholarly Activities

Research manuscripts

Lee MM, Wick MM, Bowen’s Disease [Review]. Clinics in Dermatology, vol. 11, pp 43-46, 1993.
Kraemer KH, Lee M, Andrews AD, Lambert WC, The role of sunlight and DNA repair in melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer: the xeroderma pigmentosum paradigm. Archives of Dermatology, vol. 130, pp1018-1021, 1994.
Emmert S, Slor H, Busch DB, et al, Relationship of neurologic degeneration to genotype in three xeroderma pigmentosum group G patients. The Journal of Investigative Dermatology, vol. 118, pp 972-982, 2002.

Presentations

Lee M, Kraemer KH, Andrews AD, Lambert WC, Xeroderma Pigmentosum: a prospective study. Presented at the 1994 Air Force Regional Meeting of the American College of Physicians, March 1, 1994, San Antonio, TX.
Lee, M, Specialty Consult Optimization: A Path towards improved access. Presented at the annual meeting of the California Health Care Foundation, September 19, 2014, San Jose, CA.