Rex Lee, MD
Resident
Otolaryngology
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Julius R. Krevans Award, San Francisco General Hospital, 2024
• Long-Term Dean’s Prize in Research & Scholarship, UCSF School of Medicine, 2023
• “Best of Posters” Award (COSM Annual Meeting), American Head and Neck Society, 2022
• Short-Term Dean’s Prize in Research & Scholarship (Honorable Mention), UCSF School of Medicine, 2020
• Regents Scholarship, UCSF School of Medicine, 2019
• Whitcome Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, UCLA, 2018
• Undergraduate Research Fellows Program Scholarship, UCLA, 2017

Education & Training

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• M.D. School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) 05/2023
• B.S. Neuroscience University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 06/2019

Publications (21)

Top publication keywords:
InternationalityLung DiseasesFanconi AnemiaTime-to-TreatmentOropharyngeal NeoplasmsPostoperative ComplicationsInfectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-ProfessionalCarcinoma, Squamous CellAntineoplastic Agents, ImmunologicalSalivary Gland NeoplasmsElective Surgical ProceduresSurgical Procedures, OperativeNasopharynxHead and Neck NeoplasmsPapillomavirus Infections

• Therapeutic implications of transcriptomics in head and neck cancer patient-derived xenografts.
  PloS one 2023 Lee RH, Roy R, Li H, Hechmer A, Zhu TR, Izgutdina A, Olshen AB, Johnson DE, Grandis JR
• Patterns of Postoperative Trismus Following Mandibulectomy and Fibula Free Flap Reconstruction.
  Cancers 2023 Lee RH, Evans C, Laus J, Sanchez C, Wai KC, Knott PD, Seth R, El-Sayed IH, George JR, Ryan WR, Heaton CM, Park AM, Ha PK
• Caveolin-1 and Sox-2 are predictive biomarkers of cetuximab response in head and neck cancer.
  JCI insight 2021 Bouhaddou M, Lee RH, Li H, Bhola NE, O'Keefe RA, Naser M, Zhu TR, Nwachuku K, Duvvuri U, Olshen AB, Roy R, Hechmer A, Bolen J, Keysar SB, Jimeno A, Mills GB, Vandenberg S, Swaney DL, Johnson DE, …
• Treatment of Fanconi Anemia-Associated Head and Neck Cancer: Opportunities to Improve Outcomes.
  Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2021 Lee RH, Kang H, Yom SS, Smogorzewska A, Johnson DE, Grandis JR
• The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in salivary gland cancers treated with pembrolizumab.
  Head & neck 2023 Lee RH, Truong A, Wu X, Kang H, Algazi AP, El-Sayed IH, George JR, Heaton CM, Ryan WR, Ha PK, Wai KC

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• To Tip or Not to Tip: A New Combination for Precision Medicine in Head and Neck Cancer.
  Cancer research 2023 Lee RH, Johnson DE, Grandis JR
• Approaches to the Management of Metastatic Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma.
  Cancers 2022 Lee RH, Wai KC, Chan JW, Ha PK, Kang H
• Death following pulmonary complications of surgery before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
  The British journal of surgery 2021 STARSurg Collaborative and COVIDSurg Collaborative
• Effect of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on planned cancer surgery for 15 tumour types in 61 countries: an international, prospective, cohort study.
  The Lancet. Oncology 2021 COVIDSurg Collaborative
• SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study.
  The British journal of surgery 2021 COVIDSurg Collaborative, GlobalSurg Collaborative
• SARS-CoV-2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study.
  Anaesthesia 2021 COVIDSurg Collaborative, GlobalSurg Collaborative
• Effects of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study.
  Anaesthesia 2021 COVIDSurg Collaborative, GlobalSurg Collaborative
• Impact of Smoking and Primary Tumor Subsite on Recurrence in HPV-Associated Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
  Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 2021 Lee RH, Salesky M, Benjamin T, El-Sayed IH, George JR, Ha PK, Ryan WR, Heaton CM
• Timing of surgery following SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international prospective cohort study.
  Anaesthesia 2021 COVIDSurg Collaborative, GlobalSurg Collaborative
• Preoperative nasopharyngeal swab testing and postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing elective surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
  The British journal of surgery 2021 COVIDSurg Collaborative
• Head and neck cancer surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international, multicenter, observational cohort study.
  Cancer 2020 COVIDSurg Collaborative
• Head and neck surgery during the coronavirus-19 pandemic: The University of California San Francisco experience.
  Head & neck 2020 Wai KC, Xu MJ, Lee RH, El-Sayed IH, George JR, Heaton CM, Knott PD, Park AM, Ryan WR, Seth R, Ha PK
• Elective Cancer Surgery in COVID-19-Free Surgical Pathways During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: An International, Multicenter, Comparative Cohort Study.
  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2020 Glasbey JC, Nepogodiev D, Simoes JFF, Omar O, Li E, Venn ML, Abou Chaar MK, Capizzi V, Chaudhry D, Desai A, Edwards JG, Evans JP, Fiore M, Videria JF, Ford SJ, Ganly I, Griffiths EA, Gujjuri RR, …
• Delaying surgery for patients with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection.
  The British journal of surgery 2020 COVIDSurg Collaborative
• Patterns of Mechanical Thrombectomy for Stroke Before and After the 2015 Pivotal Trials and US National Guideline Update.
  Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association 2020 Atchaneeyasakul K, Liaw N, Lee RH, Liebeskind DS, Saver JL
• Regeneration Enhances Metastasis: A Novel Role for Neurovascular Signaling in Promoting Melanoma Brain Metastasis.
  Frontiers in neuroscience 2019 Prakash R, Izraely S, Thareja NS, Lee RH, Rappaport M, Kawaguchi R, Sagi-Assif O, Ben-Menachem S, Meshel T, Machnicki M, Ohe S, Hoon DS, Coppola G, Witz IP, Carmichael ST