Thomas Henry Lee, Jr., M.D.
Title Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management Institution Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department Health Policy and Management Address Partners Healthcare Suite 1150, Prudential Towers 800 Boylston St. Boston MA 02199
|
|
Title
Senior Lecturer on Medicine, Part-time
Institution
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Biography
Cornell University Medical School | | 1979 | |
Harvard School of Public Health | M.Sc. | 1987 | |

Overview
The theme of my research, teaching, and clinical work has been the development and evaluation of management strategies that improve the quality and efficiency of care. This theme is the common thread of my research and administrative careers, and has been the focus of my work with trainees including undergraduate and medical students, house staff, fellows, and junior faculty.
In the early years of my career, the focus of this work was on risk stratification of patients with cardiovascular conditions such as acute chest pain. Through collaborations with trainees in other specialties, I extended these approaches to non-cardiovascular issues such as suspected sepsis and postoperative delirium. While I continue to be engaged in such clinical epidemiological investigations, my work broadened in the late 1980s to include health services research dimensions including economic and cost-effectiveness analyses.
In the early 1990s, I became interested in quality improvement from research and administrative perspectives. This shift led to my assumption of roles including Director of the Quality Improvement Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and, most recently, Medical Director of Partners Community HealthCare, Inc. Although these roles appear to be chiefly administrative, they represent continuing interests in “research and development” for me.
Currently, my major focuses are (1) development and evaluation of disease management programs in our community-based network, and (2) the development of a community-based network for clinical trials. My colleagues and I have performed the first controlled trials of disease management programs, and will shortly be submitting manuscripts for publication. Concurrently, I have continued clinical epidemiological research, and have published the largest study of predictors of major cardiac complications after noncardiac surgery, as well as an ancillary study examining the impact on outcome of right heart catheterization in the noncardiac surgical population.
Finally, I have assumed the role of Associate Editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, and led the development of a new series of reviews aimed at practicing physicians, Clinical Practice. These reviews seek to integrate my interests in evidence-based medicine, guideline development, and quality improvement.

Research
The research activities and funding listed below are automatically derived from
NIH ExPORTER and other sources, which might result in incorrect or missing items.
Faculty can
login
to make corrections and additions.
-
R01HS008302
(JOHNSON, PAULA A)
Sep 1, 1996 - Nov 1, 2001
CARDIAC PROCEDURE USE: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
-
R01HS006452
(LEE, THOMAS H)
Jul 1, 1990 - Apr 30, 1994
OUTCOMES OF MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR CHEST PAIN
Role: Principal Investigator
-
R03HS005927
(LEE, THOMAS H)
Jul 1, 1988 - Jun 30, 1989
RESOURCE UTILIZATION FOR PATIENTS WITH ACUTE CHEST PAIN
Role: Principal Investigator
-
K08HL001796
(LEE, THOMAS H)
Jul 1, 1985 - Jun 30, 1990
PROGNOSTIC STRATIFICATION OF ACUTE CHEST PAIN PATIENTS
Role: Principal Investigator

Bibliographic
Local representatives can answer questions about the Profiles website or help with editing a profile or issues with profile data. For assistance with this profile: SPH faculty should contact Faculty Affairs at facultyaffairshsph.harvard.edu). HMS/HSDM faculty should contact contactcatalyst.harvard.edu. For faculty or fellow appointment updates and changes, please ask your appointing department to contact HMS. For fellow personal and demographic information, contact HMS Human Resources at human_resourceshms.harvard.edu. For faculty personal and demographic information, contact HMS Office for Faculty Affairs at facappthms.harvard.edu.