Burton W. Lee, MD

Burt Lee received his B.A. from University of California Los Angeles and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He subsequently trained in internal medicine and then pulmonary critical care medicine, both at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also trained in Clinical Effectiveness and Evidence Based Health Care at the Harvard School of Public Health and Oxford University, respectively. He feels blessed to be a Christ-follower, father, husband and physician. His academic focus     has been in education and mentoring of medical students, residents     and fellows, both in the U.S. and in Sub Saharan Africa. In 2010, he and his family moved to Kenya to serve at Kijabe Hospital where he co-founded the Emergency Critical Care Clinical Officer (ECCCO) program to help bridge the high burden of illness in Sub Saharan Africa with the shortage of well-trained clinicians. He returned to the U.S. in 2016 to serve as a Professor of Medicine at University of Pittsburgh before being recruited to the National Institutes of Health in 2020, where he is currently the Head of Medical Education and the Head of Global Critical Care in the Critical Care Medicine Department.

Sandy H. Lee 

Sandy Lee received her B.A. in English Literature and a M.Ed. in Secondary Education from University of California Los Angeles, where she met her best friend/husband, Burton. She served with her family with Africa Inland Mission at the Rift Valley Academy in Kenya as a teacher and later as the College Counselor from 2010-2016. Her greatest joy is being a mom to her two adult children, Kyle, who with his wife Hope, resides in New Haven, and her daughter, Aly, who lives in Pittsburgh. Her passion is mentoring young people in their spiritual journey as well as advocating for and encouraging physicians and their spouses. This led her to co-lead the Women’s Program for the International Continuing Medical and Dental Education (CMDE) Conference for the past 7 years. She currently serves as the Area Director for CMDA Washington, DC.