Benjamin Lee, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Teaching Excellence Award for Cherished Housestaff (T.E.A.C.H.), UCSF, 2017
• Campbell Fellow, American Society of Nephrology, 2016
• ACGME Clinical Fellow of the Year in Nephrology, UCSF, 2015-2016
• Alpha Omega Alpha, 2014
• Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard College, 2007
• John Harvard Scholar, Harvard College, 2004-2007

Education & Training

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• Residency Department of Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2015
• M.D. Harvard Medical School Harvard University 2012
• A.B., summa cum laude Harvard College, Department of Biology Harvard University 2008

Grants and Projects

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• Recovery after dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury, NIH/NIDDK, 2017-2019
• Improving Risk Stratification for Adverse Outcomes After Dialysis-Requiring Acute Kidney Injury, UCSF / Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research Grants Program for Fellows, 2016-2017

Publications (15)

Top publication keywords:
Acute Kidney InjuryDeliriumGlomerular Filtration RateKidney Failure, ChronicMuscle WeaknessPatient AdmissionUnnecessary ProceduresProspective Payment SystemL-Lactate DehydrogenaseGiant Cell ArteritisHeadacheRhabdomyolysisPrednisoneRenal DialysisProteinuria

• Hypertension in CKD: Core Curriculum 2019.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2019 Ku E, Lee BJ, Wei J, Weir MR
• Predicting Renal Recovery After Dialysis-Requiring Acute Kidney Injury.
  Kidney international reports 2019 Lee BJ, Hsu CY, Parikh R, McCulloch CE, Tan TC, Liu KD, Hsu RK, Pravoverov L, Zheng S, Go AS
• Non-recovery from dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury and short-term mortality and cardiovascular risk: a cohort study.
  BMC nephrology 2018 Lee BJ, Hsu CY, Parikh RV, Leong TK, Tan TC, Walia S, Liu KD, Hsu RK, Go AS
• Potential Impact of Medicare Payment Policy on Misclassification of Dialysis-Requiring Acute Kidney Injury as ESRD: A National Temporal Trend Analysis.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2018 Lee BJ, Johansen KL, McCulloch CE, Hsu CY
• Pre-admission proteinuria impacts risk of non-recovery after dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury.
  Kidney international 2018 Lee BJ, Go AS, Parikh R, Leong TK, Tan TC, Walia S, Hsu RK, Liu KD, Hsu CY

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• Refining the Policy for Timing of Kidney Transplant Waitlist Qualification.
  Transplantation direct 2017 Lee BJ, McCulloch CE, Grimes BA, Chandran S, Allen IE, Delgado C, Hsu CY
• Acute kidney injury is important in the hospital and afterward.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Lee BJ, Hsu CY
• Defining Clinical Exposures of Cefepime for Gram-Negative Bloodstream Infections That Are Associated with Improved Survival.
  Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2015 Rhodes NJ, Kuti JL, Nicolau DP, Van Wart S, Nicasio AM, Liu J, Lee BJ, Neely MN, Scheetz MH
• Ureteropelvic junction obstruction by an accessory renal artery: an underrecognized but reversible cause of renovascular hypertension
  Annals of Clinical and Experimental Hypertension 2015 Lee BJ, Rhee CM, Hsiao LL
• Treatment outcomes with cefazolin versus oxacillin for deep-seated methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections.
  Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2015 Rao SN, Rhodes NJ, Lee BJ, Scheetz MH, Hanson AP, Segreti J, Crank CW, Wang SK
• In-hospital delirium while awaiting temporal artery biopsy: a teachable moment.
  JAMA internal medicine 2014 Hamilton KT, Lee BJ
• Physical therapy-induced rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney injury associated with reduced activity of muscle lactate dehydrogenase A.
  Arthritis care & research 2011 Lee BJ, Zand L, Manek NJ, Hsiao LL, Babovic-Vuksanovic D, Wylam ME, Qian Q
• Association of the small GTPase Rheb with the NMDA receptor subunit NR3A.
  Neuro-Signals 2010 Sucher NJ, Yu E, Chan SF, Miri M, Lee BJ, Xiao B, Worley PF, Jensen FE
• A chapter in Botanical Medicine in Clinical Practice. Eds. R.R. Watson and V.R. Preedy
  Traditional Chinese herbal medicines for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases 2008 Lee BJ, Carles MC, Sucher NJ.
• Prenatal exposure to thalidomide, altered vasculogenesis, and CNS malformations.
  Neuroscience 2006 Hallene KL, Oby E, Lee BJ, Santaguida S, Bassanini S, Cipolla M, Marchi N, Hossain M, Battaglia G, Janigro D