Nicolas Lee, MD
Associate Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery
School of Medicine
Dr. Nicolas Lee, MD, joined the faculty at UCSF in 2013, and he currently serves as Medical Director of Orthopaedic Services at Zuckerberg San Francisco General (ZSFG), Chief of Orthopaedic Hand and Upper Extremity at ZSFG, and Program Director of the UCSF Hand and Upper Extremity Fellowship.
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Dr. Lee's clinical interests include upper extremity elective and trauma care from the fingertip to the shoulder. He has an additional interest in soft tissue coverage and microvascular surgery. He is committed to high quality patient care and resident education.
Dr. Lee received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Biochemistry from UCLA. He attended medical school at UCLA followed by completion of an orthopaedic surgery residency at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. He pursued an additional year of hand and upper extremity surgery specialization with an emphasis on microsurgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin combined plastic surgery and orthopaedic surgery program.
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
- Fellowship Hand and microvascular surgery Medical College of Wisconsin 2013
- Residency Orthopaedic Surgery Baylor College of Medicine 2012
- MD Doctor of Medicine UCLA 2007
- MS Biochemistry UCLA 2001
- BS Biochemistry UCLA 2000
Websites
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- Dr. Nicolas Lee, MD (UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery) (orthosurgery.ucsf.edu)
- UCSF Peripheral Nerve and Complex Limb Reconstruction Center (peripheralnerve.ucsf.edu)
- Dr. Nicolas Lee, MD (UCSF Health) (ucsfhealth.org)
Publications (3)
Top publication keywords:
RadiusHumansArthroplastyArthritisOssification, HeterotopicObserver VariationFracture Fixation, InternalRadius FracturesBone PlatesRadiographyWrist JointReproducibility of Results
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Return to Play After Thumb Ulnar Collateral Ligament Injuries Managed Surgically in Athletes-A Systematic Review.
Journal of hand surgery global online 2023 Allahabadi S, Kwong JW, Pandya NK, Shin SS, Immerman I, Lee NH -
Interobserver and Intraobserver Reliability of Classification Systems for Radiographic Complications After Radial Head Arthroplasty.
The Journal of hand surgery 2022 Halvorson RT, Lalchandani GR, Cherches MF, Petit LM, Lattanza L, Lee NH, Kandemir U -
Management of Metadiaphyseal Proximal Radius Fractures.
Techniques in hand & upper extremity surgery 2020 Demetri L, Young C, Patterson JT, Kandemir U, Morshed S, Immerman I, Lee NH