Dr. Lee joined the faculty at Stanford in 2015.  He moved there from Washington University in St. Louis, where he completed his advanced training, specializing in complex cardiac arrhythmia surgery, transplants/VADs, and TAVR.  Dr. Lee is a native of Southern California.  He attended the University of California, San Diego as an undergraduate and Washington University for medical school, where he also conducted all of his residency training.   Dr. Lee also completed a basic science postdoctoral research fellowship studying mechanisms of and therapies for cardiac arrhythmias in the world-renowned Washington University arrhythmia laboratory in which the original Cox Maze operation was invented.

Dr. Lee leads the Surgical Arrhythmia Program at Stanford, working closely with the Stanford Electrophysiology Section.  Dr. Lee has also developed a basic and translational research laboratory studying mechanisms underlying arrhythmia ablation with collaborations in the Cardiovascular Institute and Stanford Electrical Engineering.

He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and two daughters.   He is an avid cyclist and motorsports enthusiast.