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Dr. Christoph Lee is Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine. He earned his BA cum laude from Princeton and MD cum laude from Yale. He completed his radiology residency at Stanford and a health policy fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar. He holds additional faculty appointments at the UW School of Public Health, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the Pacific Northwest Evidence-Based Practice Center, and the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute. Dr. Lee is the lead author and editor of five books spanning the basic sciences, evidence-based medicine, and medical imaging, distributed internationally by McGraw-Hill and Oxford University Press. He has obtained research funding from the National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society, and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Lee is the author of more than 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and serves on the editorial boards of three leading journals: Radiology, the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), and the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR). He is a national thought leader in imaging-related health services and policy research, with a focus on improving the value of breast cancer care.