Teng Lee, MD
Associate Professor
Surgery
School of Medicine

Originally from Singapore, he graduated from Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis. He then went on to a general surgery residency at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland where he was also the Dudley P. Allen Scholar before finishing his cardiothoracic surgery residency at Duke University.

He also completed a fellowship in Endovascular/Interventional Radiology at Skåne University Hospital (Lund University) in Malmö, Sweden where he trained under the world-renowned Krassi Ivancev, M.D., Ph.D. and another fellowship in advanced aortic surgery, heart transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support at Duke University. Dr. Lee is one of only a handful of "hybrid" specialists fully cross-trained in both interventional and open surgical techniques for the treatment of complex thoracic aortic disease.

Dr. Lee's research is focused on new stent-graft technologies for the aortic arch. He had been the Site Principal Investigator in numerous clinical trials involving treatment of aortic arch aneurysms using minimally invasive (endovascular) techniques. He has experience in using branched stent-grafts in the aortic arch with the Gore Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis, the Medtronic MonaLSA endoprosthesis, and the Cook 2-branch arch device.

Recently, he has also collaborated with bio-medical engineers to study the hemodynamic consequences of different stent-graft device in the aortic arch.

Over the last few years, Dr. Lee and his research collaborators have also been looking into the outcomes and management of acute type A aortic dissection, and potential strategies to improve them.

• Contemporary management and outcomes of acute type A aortic dissection: An analysis of the STS adult cardiac surgery database.
  Journal of cardiac surgery 2018 Lee TC, Kon Z, Cheema FH, Grau-Sepulveda MV, Englum B, Kim S, Chaudhuri PS, Thourani VH, Ailawadi G, Hughes GC, Williams ML, Brennan JM, Svensson L, Gammie JS
• Idarucizumab (Praxbind) for reversal of pradaxa prior to emergent repair of contained ruptured transverse arch aneurysm.
  Annals of cardiac anaesthesia 2017 Belli EV, Lee T
• Florida Sleeve Procedure Is Durable and Improves Aortic Valve Function in Marfan Syndrome Patients.
  The Annals of thoracic surgery 2017 Aalaei-Andabili SH, Martin T, Hess P, Klodell C, Karimi A, Arnaoutakis G, Lee T, Beaver T
• Outcomes of Antegrade Stent Graft Deployment During Hybrid Aortic Arch Repair.
  The Annals of thoracic surgery 2017 Aalaei-Andabili SH, Scali S, Klodell C, Lee T, Hess P, Martin T, Beck A, Feezor R, Alhussaini M, Arnaoutakis G, Beaver T
• Femorofemoral Shunt During Surgery for Acute DeBakey Type 1 Dissection to Treat Peripheral Extremity Malperfusion.
  The Annals of thoracic surgery 2017 Jeng EI, Voskresensky I, Beck AW, Lee TC
• Invited Commentary.
  The Annals of thoracic surgery 2016 Lee TC, Beaver TM
• Results with a selective revascularization strategy for left subclavian artery coverage during thoracic endovascular aortic repair.
  The Annals of thoracic surgery 2011 Lee TC, Andersen ND, Williams JB, Bhattacharya SD, McCann RL, Hughes GC
• Aortic valve replacement through right minithoracotomy in 306 consecutive patients.
  Innovations (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2010 Glower DD, Lee T, Desai B
• Thoracic endografting in a patient with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia presenting with a descending thoracic aneurysm.
  Journal of vascular surgery 2010 Andersen ND, Dubose J, Shah A, Lee T, Wechsler SB, Hughes GC
• Comparison of Minithoracotomy versus Sternotomy in 304 Consecutive Tricuspid Valve Operations.
  Innovations (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2010 Lee TC, Desai BS, Milano C, Jaggers J, Glower DD
• Results of 141 consecutive minimally invasive tricuspid valve operations: an 11-year experience.
  The Annals of thoracic surgery 2009 Lee TC, Desai B, Glower DD
• In situ bending of a thoracic stent-graft: a proposed novel technique to improve thoracic endograft seal.
  Journal of endovascular therapy : an official journal of the International Society of Endovascular Specialists 2008 Kölbel T, Lee T, Ivancev K, Resch TA, Sonesson B, Malina M
• Liposome-mediated gene transfer to lung isografts.
  The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 1997 Boasquevisque CH, Lee TC, Mora BN, Peterson D, Osburn WO, Bernstein M, Zhang W, Nietupski JB, Scheule RK, Cooper JD, Botney MD, Patterson GA
• Ex vivo adenoviral-mediated gene transfer to lung isografts during cold preservation.
  The Annals of thoracic surgery 1997 Boasquevisque CH, Mora BN, Schmid RA, Lee TC, Nagahiro I, Cooper JD, Patterson GA