Robert P. Kelch, MD Professor of Pediatrics
Ambulatory Care Clinical Chief, Pediatric Subspecialties
Associate Chair, Health Metrics and Learning Health System
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for Pediatric Research
Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center
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Joyce Lee is a pediatric translational researcher who is one of the few individuals in the country with formal training in both Pediatric Endocrinology and Pediatric Health Services Research (T32 NIH fellowship) and a Master in Public Health (MPH) degree. She is the Robert P. Kelch MD Research Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan (U-M) Medical School with a joint appointment in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the U-M School of Public Health. Her scientific research has focused on two major arenas: obesity and diabetes.
Dr. Lee holds multiple leadership roles within the University of Michigan including Co-Director of Momentum Center, a multidisciplinary childhood obesity center; Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for Pediatric Research at Michigan Medicine; Associate Chair of Health Metrics and Learning Health Systems for the Department of Pediatrics; and Associate Director for Informatics and Clinical Research Innovation for the Caswell Diabetes Institute. In these roles, I lead efforts to support clinical translational investigators, by providing access to the electronic health record data from Michigan Medicine and expertise in how to use clinical and health information technology to integrate research into the “real-world” healthcare delivery setting.
Her work has been consistently funded by the NIH since 2008 and her research contributions include studies evaluating biomarker test performance for identifying type 2 diabetes risk among overweight and obese children, studies evaluating the link between weight status and child health outcomes including insulin resistance, hypercholesterolemia, timing of pubertal development and linear growth, and studies focused on quality measurement and quality of care for overweight and obese children which have resulted in the formulation of national quality measures focused on elevated body mass index in children.
