Alison G. Lee, MD, MS

Alison G. Lee, MD, MS, is the Vice Chair for Research and Faculty Affairs in the Department of Global Health and an Associate Professor with Tenure in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Lee is the immediate past chair of the American Thoracic Society’s (ATS) Environmental Health Policy Committee, where she advises the ATS Executive Committee and Board of Directors on issues of policy importance and priorities, and leads the committee in monitoring and responding to state, federal, and international environmental health policy legislation regulating, for example, air quality.

Dr. Lee is an NIH-funded physician-scientist with transdisciplinary training and expertise in environmental health, as well as air pollution measurement and mechanisms applied to environment health studies. Dr. Lee’s research considers how environmental exposures during critical windows of exposure program chronic disease risk over the life course. Dr. Lee earned an ScB in biology from Brown University, an MD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and an MS in epidemiology from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Dr. Lee completed her training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Columbia Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.