Contact: Richard P. Gulla
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Waltham – April 30 – Yhu-Hsiung Lee, M.D. (Henry Lee), a physician at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, been honored as the 2013 Community Clinician of the Year by his physician peers of the Suffolk District Medical Society. The award was presented at the district society’s annual meeting on March 14 at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge.
The Community Clinician of the Year Award was established in 1998 by the Massachusetts Medical Society to recognize a physician from each of the Society’s 20 district medical societies who has made significant contributions to his or her patients and the community and who stands out as a leading advocate and caregiver. The Suffolk District is comprised of nearly 4,000 physicians who live and work in Boston and adjacent communities.
A resident of East Boston, Dr. Lee is an urgent care physician in the emergency department of the East Boston health center, where he has served patients for more than 40 years. He is also the center’s chairperson of infection control.
In nominating him for the award, his colleagues noted that Dr. Lee is a “skilled diagnostician and clinician, sought after as a teacher and consultant by other physicians, nurse practitioners and nursing staffs. Few people have cared for as many patients from East Boston and the surrounding communities or assisted and trained as many health center physicians and nurses, or triggered as rapid and effective responses to community outbreaks of infectious diseases as Dr. Lee.”
A widely published author of many research papers, Dr. Lee is board certified in emergency medicine and pediatrics. He is a graduate of the Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan. After completing residency training in Otolaryngology in Taiwan he started his rotating internship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He completed his residency in pediatrics at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas and was an affiliated resident in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston.
He completed fellowship training in infectious disease under Dr. Maxwell Finland and Dr. Edward H. Kass at the Harvard Medical Unit of Boston City Hospital and was an Assistant Clinical Professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He served as an Emergency Medicine physician at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Massachusetts and is a staff physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Medical Center.
Dr. Lee has been previously honored as the 1972-1974 recipient of the U. S. Public Health Special Fellowship Award and was named the 2008 Physician of the Year of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, a nonprofit, statewide organization representing 49 community health centers throughout the Commonwealth. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is a member of Massachusetts Medical Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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