LeeEmersonWhelessMD, PhD, MSCR
Dermatology • Nashville, TNDermatologic Surgery, Clinical Informatics
Physician
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Office
719 Thompson Ln
Ste 26300
Nashville, TN 37204Phone+1 615-322-0417
Summary
- I am an academic medical and surgical dermatologist with a focus on the management of organ transplant recipients and other patients at high risk for skin cancer. I have experience in skin cancer surgery and reconstruction. My research interests are precision medicine, genetic epidemiology, and pharmacoepidemiology of these high-risk patients. I conduct my analyses in SAS, R, and Plink and am proficient in data manipulation, regression modeling, imputation, meta-analysis, GWAS, and PheWAS, among other statistical analyses
Education & Training
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterResidency, Dermatology, 2015 - 2018- Vanderbilt University Medical CenterInternship, Internal Medicine, 2014 - 2015
Medical University of South CarolinaClass of 2014, Abney Family Fellowship
Davidson CollegeBS, Biology, Classics, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Keiser Prize, 2001 - 2005
Certifications & Licensure
TN State Medical License 2018 - 2026
AL State Medical License 2020 - 2020- American Board of Dermatology Dermatology
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Peripartum maternal outcomes in individuals with systemic lupus erythematosus in a real-world electronic health record cohort.Catherine Deffendall, Sarah Green, Ashley Suh, Nikol Nikolova, Katherine Walker
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism. 2025-02-01 - Internal cancers in solid organ transplant recipients with a post-transplant skin cancer: a cohort study.Lucy J Navsaria, Yao Li, Anokhi Jambusaria, Lee E Wheless, Mackenzie R Wehner
The Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 2025-01-24 - The impact of imprecise case definitions in electronic health record research: a melanoma case-study from the Million Veteran Program.Lee Wheless, Dominique Mosley, Daniel Dochtermann, Saiju Pyarajan, Katlyn Gonzalez
Archives of Dermatological Research. 2025-01-24
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