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About Dr Samuel A Lee. Samuel Lee studied philosophy and medical science at The Boston University College of Liberal Arts and the Boston University School of Medicine (Boston, MA) within the Seven Year Combined Liberal Arts and Medical Education Program. He received his BA summa cum laude and MD cum laude in 1993. He performed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Hospital of UPenn (Philadelphia, PA). From 1997 to 2005, Dr Lee was affiliated with Yale University (New Haven, CT) as a clinical fellow and research physician in the Infectious Diseases Section of the Department of Internal Medicine. In 2005 he received his PhD in Investigative Medicine from Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Subsequently, Dr Lee moved to San Antonio to work as staff physician and assistant professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center. Since 2007, he has been affiliated with the University of New Mexico School of Medicine (Albuquerque, NM) as associate professor of medicine and chief of the infectious diseases section of the New Mexico VA Healthcare System. He also serves as the medical director of the VA ID-HIV primary care clinic, and associate fellowship program director for infectious diseases. Dr Lee’s research interests focus on fungal pathogenesis. He studies the molecular pathogenesis of invasive candidiasis, specifically the role of secretion and biofilm formation in Candida albicans virulence. His lab also investigates translational aspects of invasive candidiasis, including antifungal drug resistance within biofilms, and the identification of novel and repurposed therapies against C. albicans biofilms. During the course of his career, Dr Lee has published more than 50 papers in well-reknowned scientific journals, and he is regularly invited to speak at national and international meetings in the field of infectious diseases. Dr Lee is an active member of various boards and committees, and has served on NIH and VA study sections, and he serves on the editorial board of several journals related to infectious diseases, including Virulence.
