Patrick Lee is Medical Director of the Primary Care Center at Cambridge Health Alliance and Director of Education for the Kraft Center for Community Health. He is committed to improving the care of vulnerable populations and mentoring the next generation of health systems leaders. At Harvard Medical School, Dr. Lee co-founded and co-directs Clinical Topics in Global Health, a practical introduction to the top ten causes of global burden of disease and cross-cutting systems issues. With the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science, he consults on the development of learner-driven approaches to teaching optimal care delivery. Dr. Lee was Founding Director of the Global Primary Care Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, the first fully integrated global health and primary care residency in the US. He has served as Medical Director of Tiyatien Health, a health non-profit that provides clinical care and social services in rural Liberia, and Clinical Mentor for Partners In Health in Rwanda.

Dr. Lee graduated BA in English from Princeton University and MD from the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his residency training in internal medicine and primary care at the Massachusetts General Hospital and holds an advanced diploma in tropical medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

TEDxSF talk on “Global Primary Care” — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-piyAt_ldA