Dong Heun Lee, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

In research, Lee has investigated how to improve organ transplants for patients living with HIV. He is interested in boosting the safety of transplantation by reducing the occurrence of disease transmission from organ donors to recipients.

Lee earned his medical degree at Hanyang University in South Korea. He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Drexel University. Prior to joining UCSF, he worked as an infectious disease specialist at Drexel, caring for transplant patients and directing the school's infectious diseases fellowship program.

• Antibiotic Utilization in Deceased Organ Donors.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2021 Anesi JA, Lautenbach E, Han J, Lee DH, Clauss H, Climaco A, Hasz R, Bilker WB, Molnar E, Alimenti D, West S, Tolomeo P, Blumberg EA
• How the Field of Infectious Diseases Can Leverage Digital Strategy and Social Media Use During a Pandemic.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2021 Marcelin JR, Cortés-Penfield N, Del Rio C, Desai A, Echenique I, Granwehr B, Lawal F, Kuriakose K, Lee DH, Malinis M, Ruidera D, Siddiqui J, Spec A, Swartz TH
• Experience with a six-month regimen of Pneumocystis pneumonia prophylaxis in 122 HIV-positive kidney transplant recipients.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2020 Mejia CD, Malat GE, Boyle SM, Ranganna K, Lee DH
• Autologous CD4 T Lymphocytes Modified with a Tat-Dependent, Virus-Specific Endoribonuclease Gene in HIV-Infected Individuals.
  Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy 2020 Jacobson JM, Jadlowsky JK, Lacey SF, Fraietta JA, Plesa G, Chono H, Lee DH, Kulikovskaya I, Bartoszek C, Chen F, Tian L, Dimitri A, Levine BL, Veloso EA, Hwang WT, June CH
• Brief Report: Willingness to Accept HIV-Infected and Increased Infectious Risk Donor Organs Among Transplant Candidates Living With HIV.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2020 Seaman SM, Van Pilsum Rasmussen SE, Nguyen AQ, Halpern SE, You S, Waldram MM, Anjum SK, Bowring MG, Muzaale AD, Ostrander DB, Brown D, Massie AB, Tobian AAR, Henderson ML, Fletcher FE, Smith B, Chao A…
• Hepatitis C antibody screening and determinants of initial and duplicate screening in the baby boomer patients of six urban primary care clinics.
  PloS one 2020 Coppock D, Chou E, Gracely E, Gross R, Heun-Lee D
• Duration of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation Patients.
  Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) 2020 Bandali A, Bias TE, Lee DH, Malat G
• Impact of deceased donor multidrug-resistant bacterial organisms on organ utilization.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2020 Anesi JA, Han JH, Lautenbach E, Lee DH, Clauss H, Climaco A, Bilker WB, Hasz R, Molnar E, Alimenti D, West S, Tolomeo P, Blumberg EA, CDC Prevention Epicenters Program
• The Struggling Infectious Diseases Fellow: Remediation Challenges and Opportunities.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2020 Melia MT, Paez A, Reid G, Chirch LM, Luther VP, Blackburn BG, Perez F, Abdoler E, Kaul DR, Rehm S, Harik N, Barsoumian A, Person AK, Yun H, Beckham JD, Boruchoff S, Cariello PF, Cutrell JB, Graber CJ,…
• Barriers to kidney transplant evaluation in HIV-positive patients with advanced kidney disease: A single-center study.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2020 Boyle SM, Fehr K, Deering C, Raza A, Harhay MN, Malat G, Ranganna K, Lee DH
• Clarifying the HOPE Act landscape: The challenge of donors with false-positive HIV results.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2019 Durand CM, Werbel W, Doby B, Brown D, Desai NM, Malinis M, Price J, Chin-Hong P, Mehta S, Friedman-Moraco R, Turgeon NA, Gilbert A, Morris MI, Stosor V, Elias N, Aslam S, Santos CAQ, Hand JM, Husson J…
• Safety and Efficacy of Universal Postoperative Decolonization for Kidney Transplant Recipients.
  Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation 2019 Lee DH, Malat G, Boyle SM, Talluri S, Bias TE, Harhay MN, Ranganna K, Doyle A
• Risk factors for multidrug-resistant organisms among deceased organ donors.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2019 Anesi JA, Blumberg EA, Han JH, Lee DH, Clauss H, Climaco A, Hasz R, Molnar E, Alimenti D, West S, Bilker WB, Tolomeo P, Lautenbach E, CDC Prevention Epicenters Program
• Herpes simplex virus infections in solid organ transplantation: Guidelines from the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice.
  Clinical transplantation 2019 Lee DH, Zuckerman RA, AST Infectious Diseases Community of Practice
• A rare case of disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex with colitis in a renal transplant recipient.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2018 Ingilizova M, Epstein S, Heun Lee D, Patel N, Patel Babariya S, Morgenstern R, Popnikolov N, Coppock D
• Kidney Transplantation in HIV-Positive Patients: A Single-Center, 16-Year Experience.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2018 Malat GE, Boyle SM, Jindal RM, Guy S, Xiao G, Harhay MN, Lee DH, Ranganna KM, Anil Kumar MS, Doyle AM
• Barriers to listing for HIV-infected patients being evaluated for kidney transplantation.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2017 Lee DH, Boyle SM, Malat GE, Kern C, Milrod C, DeBellis S, Harhay MN, Ranganna K, Guy S, Talluri S, Bias T, Doyle A
• Association of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate with primary allograft survival in HIV-positive kidney transplant recipients.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2017 Boyle SM, Malat G, Harhay MN, Lee DH, Pang L, Talluri S, Sharma A, Bias TE, Ranganna K, Doyle AM
• Clinical outcomes associated with carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) in abdominal solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients.
  Infectious diseases (London, England) 2017 Bias TE, Malat GE, Lee DH, Sharma A, Doyle AM
• HIV in the dialysis population: Current issues and future directions.
  Seminars in dialysis 2017 Boyle SM, Lee DH, Wyatt CM
• Successful Posttransplant Treatment of Hepatitis C With Ledipasvir-Sofosbuvir in HIV+ Kidney Transplant Recipients.
  Transplantation 2017 Sawinski D, Lee DH, Doyle AM, Blumberg EA
• Identification of Risk Factors Associated With Clostridium difficile Infection in Liver Transplantation Recipients: A Single-Center Analysis.
  Transplantation proceedings 2016 Rogala BG, Malat GE, Lee DH, Harhay MN, Doyle AM, Bias TE
• Serum creatinine elevation after switch to dolutegravir in a human immunodeficiency virus-positive kidney transplant recipient.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2016 Lee DH, Malat GE, Bias TE, Harhay MN, Ranganna K, Doyle AM
• Low rates of vaccination in listed kidney transplant candidates.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2016 Lee DH, Boyle SM, Malat G, Sharma A, Bias T, Doyle AM
• Differences of Mortality Rates between Pocket and Nonpocket Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device Infections.
  Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE 2015 Lee DH, Gracely EJ, Aleem SY, Kutalek SP, Vielemeyer O
• An Assessment of HIV-Infected Patients Dying in Care for Deceased Organ Donation in a United States Urban Center.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2015 Richterman A, Sawinski D, Reese PP, Lee DH, Clauss H, Hasz RD, Thomasson A, Goldberg DS, Abt PL, Forde KA, Bloom RD, Doll SL, Brady KA, Blumberg EA
• Preexposure chemoprophylaxis for HIV prevention.
  The New England journal of medicine 2011 Lee DH, Vielemeyer O
• Analysis of overall level of evidence behind Infectious Diseases Society of America practice guidelines.
  Archives of internal medicine 2011 Lee DH, Vielemeyer O
• Ultra-fast low concentration detection of Candida pathogens utilizing high resolution micropore chips.
  Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 2009 Mulero R, Lee DH, Kutzler MA, Jacobson JM, Kim MJ
• Empirical use of fluconazole in critically ill patients: good study, but what was the hold-up?
  Annals of internal medicine 2009 Lee DH