Lisa Lee, PhD
Associate Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology

Recognition & Awards

  • S.T.A.R. Outstanding Faculty Award, MD Class of 2027 (2023)
    Dear Dr. Lee, Congratulations! On behalf of the MD Class of 2027 we are thrilled to inform you that you have been chosen as one of the S.T.A.R Outstanding Faculty Award (Students Thanking And Recognizing Outstanding Faculty) recipients for the Foundational Principles Course 2027. This recognition process was fully student initiated, driven, and conducted. Each student in the class was given the opportunity to nominate faculty members from throughout the FP course who made a tremendous impact on them, faculty who went above and beyond, faculty such as you! On behalf of the Class of 2027, thank you and we appreciate your dedication and the expertise that you shared for the benefit of our education. Attached is a certificate of award and an acknowledgement of our appreciation. Thank you! Best, Ryan Turner & Sera Sempson STAR Committee Co-Chairs Comments: "Dr. Lee is very passionate about the concepts she teaches and it really shows in how she delivers the material. She makes challenging topics (embryology and histology) easy to digest in small chunks and provides many opportunities to test our knowledge with end of lecture practice questions, concept checks found on the community in Canvas, and relevant cases before the EOW. This allows anyone who is daunted by these topics to not be discouraged, but to appreciate and be willing to learn and struggle through the material (enough to not be unmotivated). Being able to test our knowledge via her questions she asks verbally or on the slides/canvas, allows us to make mistakes and better solidify the concepts being taught." "Dr. Lee is absolutely phenomenal, she is engaging, passionate, empathetic and truly cares about what we are learning. She is able to help us all use our histo magic and develop pattern recognition and growth mindsets that can be applied throughout our education. She also always went above and beyond to help us all both individually and as a collective group through active learning activities, PRP practice quizzes on Canvas, or answering questions (and using the amazing leeshistology) well after lecture ended. Her commitment, dedication, passion, and enthusiasm are inspiring to me." "Lisa is an excellent lecturer, she blends well made powerpoints with engaged class questions for an all together world class experience." "Dr. Lee is so enthusiastic about teaching and it shows up in all of her lectures and makes the students also excited to learn the material. She is a good facilitator of in-class sessions and has a good balance of standard lecturing and self-practice/group work during sessions. I like how she tries to connect and interleave topics across lectures and even across different medical science content to help solidify our understanding of the material. I also appreciate the time and effort she puts in to help students learn and succeed in FP. I found the extra pattern recognition practice quizzes Dr. Lee put together very helpful in practicing my histology skills." "Dr. Lee went above and beyond by creating additional histology resources and quizzes for our class to practice pattern recognition throughout FP. She was a very positive and helpful presence each day of lecture, and was always receptive to my questions!"

Publications

  • Gartner and Hiatt’s Atlas and Text of Histology 8th edition (in press, publication in March 2022) https://shop.lww.com/Gartner---Hiatt-s-Atlas-and-Text-of-Histology/p/9781975164256
  • Mishall PL, Meguid EMA, Khalil MK, Lee LMJ. (2022) Evidence-based Transition to Effective Online Anatomical Sciences Teaching in the Pandemic Era of COVID-19. Medical Science Educator.
  • Color Atlas and Text of Histology 8th Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Phildadelphia, PA. 2022.
  • Gustilo KS*, Stratford J, Hight M*, Lee LMJ. 3D Embryonic Heart Goes Mobile: Efficacy of Mobile Application in Congenital Cardiac Embryology Education FASEBJ, 2022
  • Lee LMJ It takes a Village: Team Teaching in an Integrated and Spiraled Medical Sciences Curriculum. FASEBJ 2022
  • From Scope to Screen: The Evolution of Histology Education. Biological Visualisation. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-47483-6_5. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-47483-6_5
  • 2021 Lohman Bonfiglio C, Fiebig C, Hight M, Wagner M, Wahl L, Bryant J, Cahil G, Lee LMJ. Monozygotic Does Not Always Mean Identical: An Investigation of Anatomic Variations in Identical Twins FASEB journal, 2021 https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.02536 https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.02536
  • 2021 Lee LMJ, Lohman Bonfiglio C, Flipping the Script – Adopting Autopsy Protocol for Cadaveric Dissection in Gross Anatomy FASEB journal, 2021 https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.02471 https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.02471
  • 2021 Hull A, Salcedo E, Stratford J, Hight M, Bunker H, Lee LMJ Embryorigami: The Educational Impact of 4D Virtual Folding Embryo Model on Student Learning and Confidence FASEB journal, 2021 https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.04542 https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.04542
  • 2021 MacDonald A, Cooper M, Cooper C, Salcedo E, Lee LMJ No Need to Reinvent - Augmenting a Flipped Class Histology Curriculum with a Commercial Online Course FASEB journal, 2021 https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.04579 https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.04579
  • 2021 Hight M, Salcedo E, Stratford J, Bunker H, Jacobson N, Hull A, Lee LMJ Change of Heart: Virtual Embryonic 3D Heart Model with Interchangeable Conotruncal Septa Promotes Clinically Oriented Learning FASEB journal, 2021 https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.04200 https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.04200
  • 2021 Bunker H, Stratford J, Hight M, Orr C, Lee LMJ What the head and neck? A study of integrated gross anatomy with embryology and its effect on learning and retention. FASEB journal, 2021 https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.00343 https://doi.org/10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.S1.00343
  • Visualization Textbook (2020). From Scope to Screen: The Evolution of Histology Education. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-47483-6_5
  • Ryan M, Stratford J, Lee LMJ. Lending a Helping Hand; Educational Value of a Hand-Drawn Video Tutorial on Embryonic Underpinnings of Gross Anatomy. FASEBJ, 2020
  • Zabalaga-Haberman MF, Vinovskis C, Stratford J, Lee LMJ. Twisted Development: Assessing the Educational Value of a 4D Interactive Embryonic Gut Tube Model. FASEBJ, 2020
  • Hirt L, Leonard CJ, Lee LMJ. Are you copying me? Leveraging Expert Visual Scan Path to Transmit Visual Literacy In Novice Histology Students. FASEBJ, 2020
  • Zabalaga-Haberman MF, Amici A., Buenting Gritton C, Stratford J, Lee LMJ. Do I Sound Funny to You? The Role of Instructor Gender and Accent on Student Learning and Evaluation in a Digital Learning Environment. FASEBJ, 2020
  • Choi YJ, Plunkett C, Buenting Gritton CA, Stratford J, Lepek N, Lee LMJ. “Build an Embryo”: Educational Efficacy of 3D Printed Embryo Models in Pieces or en bloc in Enhancing Spatial & Temporal Anatomy Learning. FASEBJ, 2020
  • Lee LJM, Kincaid T, Tan R, Corral J. Growing Pains: Positive Learning Outcomes but Evaluation Fallouts from Flipping the Embryology Curriculum in an Integrated Medical Gross Anatomy Course FASEBJ, 2020
  • Cale A, Lee LJM. Those Who Can’t Do, Teach&[hellip]Anatomy? The Presence of Stereotype Threat in Anatomical Sciences Educators. FASEBJ, 2020
  • Park Y, Muffly, Corral J, Lee LMJ. “My Vagina Did What?”: Evaluating a 3D Mobile App of Enterocele Anatomy in Post-Hysterectomy Women. FASEBJ, 2020
  • Royer D, Carmichael H, Kondo K, Lee LMJ, Britton C Let Students SOAR: Impact of Early Clinical Interactions on Perceptions of Specialties & Anatomy. FASEBJ, 2020
  • Buenting Gritton C, Royer D, Carmichael H, Kondo K, Lee LMJ. SOARing Achievements: Do Medical Students Think Our New Teaching Strategy Achieved Its Goals?FASEBJ, 2020
  • 2022 Gustilo K, Lee LMJ 3D Embryonic Heart Goes Mobile: Efficacy of Mobile Application in Congenital Cardiac Embryology Education. In Press – FASEB
  • 2022 Lee LMJ It takes a Village: Team Teaching in an Integrated and Spiraled Medical Sciences Curriculum In Press – FASEB
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