DavidILeeMDFACS

Summary

• Dr. David Lee is a Professor of Clinical Urology at UCI Health and Vice Chair of the Department of Urology at UCI. He specializes in robotic surgery for prostate cancer. He has one of the leading experiences in the world having completed more than 7000 cases. He is also the Director of the Comprehensive Prostate Cancer Program at UCI Health and Director of the Robotic Urological Surgery Fellowship.
  
  Dr. Lee graduated as part of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society from Loma Linda University School of Medicine. After completing his urology residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Dr. Lee completed an endourology fellowship with Dr. Ralph Clayman and Dr. Tom Ahlering at UCI Health where he was part of one of the pioneering experiences of robotic surgery. He then established the first major robot prostatectomy program in the south central United States while at Urology Associates of North Texas. He then served as Chief of Urology at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and associate professor of surgery and urology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania where he performed regularly more than 400 robotic cases per year. He directed the Penn robotic urologic surgery fellowship, was Surgeon Champion for NSQIP, and CLP for the Cancer Committee and member of the Abramson Cancer Center. He has been recognized in Best Doctors in America, Castle Connelly Top Doctors and Top Docs in Philadelphia Magazine.
  
  Dr. Lee has published over 200 articles, abstracts and book chapters in the field of minimally invasive urologic surgery. He has one of the largest databases of robotic prostatectomy outcomes and regularly publishes on new techniques and outcomes.