ErnestCastroLeeMDMPH

Summary

• Dr. Ernest Lee is an experienced occupational and family medicine specialist based in San Diego, CA, with extensive training that includes residencies in preventive medicine and occupational and environmental medicine. He completed his MPH and occupational and environmental medicine residency at the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and his family medicine residency at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Lee is a graduate of both the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute and USAF School of Aerospace Medicine. Dr. Lee completed a Space Medicine Externship at the NASA Kennedy Space Center. He holds various roles, including a primary care physician at the Naval Medical Center San Diego, an urgent care physician, and a clinical professor. His professional career spans diverse positions across military and civilian healthcare settings, including significant roles in the VA Health Care System, Navy, Army, and Air Force. He is knowledgeable in areas such as aerospace medicine, undersea medicine, urgent care, and industrial toxin exposure, and has contributed to medical literature with publications on topics like sarin nerve gas, granuloma annulare, and aeromedical implications of COVID-19. Dr. Lee's accolades include being inducted into the Seton Catholic Preparatory High School Alumni Hall of Fame and receiving the Harvard University Dr. Fang-Ching Sun Memorial Award for his humanitarian works serving underprivileged pediatric populations in the Philippines.