Christoph I Lee MD, MS, MBA

Christoph Lee, MD, MS, MBA joined the department as the inaugural Tom Grist, MD/GE HealthCare Foundation Distinguished Chair in Radiology Research, professor in the Section of Breast Imaging and Intervention, and the vice chair of research in 2025. Prior to joining the department, Dr. Lee was professor of radiology and founding director of the Northwest Screening and Cancer Outcomes Research Enterprise (NW-SCORE) at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center.

His multidisciplinary research program focuses on the evaluation of emerging cancer screening technologies, with grant-funded efforts spanning the fields of artificial intelligence, cancer epidemiology, health disparities, and population health. He is currently the principal investigator of multiple R01 grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (National Cancer Institute).

Dr. Lee has served as a consultant or advisor to the National Cancer Institute, U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and World Health Organization on various disease prevention and control topics. He has published five textbooks spanning the basic sciences, evidence-based medicine, and medical imaging, distributed internationally by McGraw-Hill and Oxford University Press. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Lee has also served as a senior editor for four medical journals, including currently serving as Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Dr. Lee earned his bachelor’s degree cum laude from Princeton University, his medical degree cum laude from Yale University, and completed his radiology residency at Stanford University. He completed both a breast imaging fellowship and a two-year health policy fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at UCLA, where he earned his master’s degree in health services research. Dr. Lee also earned his MBA in healthcare management from Johns Hopkins University with election to the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society.