UC Systemwide Radiology Grand Rounds: Evaluating AI for Risk-Based Breast Cancer Screening

Evaluating AI for Risk-Based Breast Cancer Screening

Dr. Christoph Lee is Professor of Radiology at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine, Director of the Northwest Screening and Cancer Outcomes Research Enterprise (NW-SCORE) at UW, Adjunct Professor of Health Systems and Population Health at the UW School of Public Health, and Staff Physician at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Dr. Lee’s multidisciplinary research program focuses on the evaluation of emerging cancer screening technologies, with grant-funded efforts spanning the fields of artificial intelligence, cancer epidemiology, health disparities, and population health. He is currently Principal Investigator of multiple R01 grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (National Cancer Institute).

Dr. Lee has served as a consultant or advisor to the National Cancer Institute, U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and World Health Organization on various disease prevention and control topics. He currently serves on Washington state’s Health Technology Clinical Committee, an independent body of medical experts that makes coverage decisions for new medical technologies. Dr. Lee has published five textbooks spanning the basic sciences, evidence-based medicine, and medical imaging, distributed internationally by McGraw-Hill and Oxford University Press. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Lee has also served as a senior editor for four medical journals, including currently serving as Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Dr. Lee earned his BA cum laude from Princeton University, his MD cum laude from Yale University, and completed his radiology residency at Stanford University. He completed both a breast imaging fellowship and a two-year health policy fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at UCLA, where he earned his MS in health services research. Dr. Lee also earned his MBA in healthcare management from Johns Hopkins University with election to the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society.