Bio
Dr. Allison Lee has agreed to serve as Officer of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) for the Department of Anesthesiology. Dr. Lee is co-leader, with Dr. Maya Hastie, of the department’s new DEI Task Force.
Chair Dr. Ansgar Brambrink announced the news today in an email to the department. In her role as Officer of DEI, Dr. Lee will guide the work of the task force, and she will act as liaison between the department’s members and its leadership, and between the department and the larger organization and national specialty societies. She also will consult on educational activities to advance DEI within the department.
Dr. Lee has a strong record of involvement in community leadership and inclusion initiatives. She is the founder of Medics on a Mission, an organization that provides urology services for patients in Jamaica, West Indies, where she was born and raised.
Every year since 2009, Dr. Lee gathers a surgical team of urologists, anesthesiologists, and others to join her in providing these services and to share their expertise with local clinicians at St. Ann’s Bay Hospital on Jamaica’s north shore. In 2013, she assembled a group of faculty specialists in regional anesthesia from the United States to join Medics on a Mission to conduct workshops for local anesthetists at St. Ann’s. The instructional workshops are now an annual mission event and a resounding success on several levels: The hospital has attracted more qualified surgical staff and an expanded patient po
