Byron Lee, MD
Professor Emeritus
Medicine
School of Medicine

byron.lee@ucsf.edu 415-476-5706

CLINICAL INTERESTS: Dr. Lee is a Cardiologist and a Cardiac Electrophysiologist. His main clinical interests include conduction disorders, arrhythmias, catheter ablation, implantable devices (including pacemakers, defibrillators and biventricular defibrillators), lead extraction, atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, supraventricular tachycardias, ventricular tachycardias, and sudden death.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dr. Lee has a Masters Degree in Clinical Research. He had done research on arrhythmias after organ transplant, the effects of the TASER on the heart, ICD complications, risk stratficiation after myocardial infarction, cryoablation, and lead extraction techniques. Currently, he is the Co-PI of the VEST study, a multi-center, international randomized study to determine whether a wearable defibrillator vest can reduce the big early sudden death rate post-MI.

Awards

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  • Joel Karliner Faculty Teaching Award, UCSF Division of Cardiology, 2021-2022
  • San Francisco Top Doctors List, San Francisco Magazine, 2018-2022
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF School of Medicine, 2010-2011
  • Beckett Fellow Teaching Award, Stanford University Medical Center, 1999-2000

Education & Training

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  • Master's Degree in Clinical Research Biostatistics and Epidemiology UCSF 2005
  • Cardiac Electrophysiology Medicine Stanford University Medical Center 2001
  • Cardiology Medicine Stanford University Medical Center 2000
  • Internal Medicine Medicine Stanford University Medical Center 1997
  • M.D. School of Medicine Harvard Medical School 1994

Websites

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Publications (111)

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Tachycardia, VentricularPacemaker, ArtificialArrhythmias, CardiacElectrocardiographyDevice RemovalDefibrillators, ImplantableDefibrillatorsCatheter AblationWearable Electronic DevicesDeath, Sudden, CardiacElectrocardiography, AmbulatoryElectric CountershockPulmonary VeinsElectrodes, ImplantedAtrial Fibrillation

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