Clara N. Lee, MD, MPP

1. Policy Analyst, United States Health Care Financing Administration Office of Budget and Administration, 1990 (Summer)


2. Research and Teaching Assistant, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, 1990-1991


3. Policy Analyst, United States Health Care Financing Administration Office of Legislation and Policy, 1991-1992


4. Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2004-present


5. Junior Research Fellow, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2005-present


6. Director of Surgical Research for the Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and Surgery of the Hand, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2007-present

1. Academy of Educators, University of North Carolina, 2011


2. Health Policy Scholar, American College of Surgeons / American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 2011


3. Early Career Mentoring Program, American College of Surgeons, 2009


4. Loan Repayment Program Award, National Institutes of Health, 2008


5. Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making Grant for project "Measuring the Quality of Decisions in Breast Cancer", University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007-present


6. KL2 Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007


7. Dartmouth Summer Institute for Informed Patient Choice Fellowship, 2007


8. NIH Loan Repayment Program, 2006-present


9. K30 Clinical Research Curriculum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005-present


10. American Medical Women's Association Glasgow Achievement Citation, 1996


11. Alpha Omega Alpha, Yale University, 1996

1. Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis
   Authors: Lee CN
   University of California San Francisco Plastic Surgery Hand Conference, San Francisco, California, 2002


2. Outcomes Research in Surgery: What Is It? Who Cares?
   Authors: Lee CN
   Cornell University Weill Medical College Surgery Grand Rounds, New York, New York, 2002


3. Algorithm for Complex Wound Management
   Authors: Lee CN
   University of California San Francisco Surgery Grand Rounds, San Francisco, CA, 2003


4. Volume and Outcomes and Plastic Surgery
   Authors: Lee CN
   University of Pittsburgh Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2003


5. Fingertip Injuries
   Authors: Lee CN
   University of California San Francisco Plastic Surgery Hand Conference, San Francisco, California, 2003


6. Complex abdominal wall reconstruction
   Authors: Lee CN, Mathes SJ
   Plastic Surgery Education Foundation Senior Residents Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 2004


7. Reconstruction of the Complex Wound
   Authors: Lee CN
   University of North Carolina Department of Surgery Grand Rounds, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2004


8. Volume and Outcomes and Plastic Surgery
   Authors: Lee CN
   University of North Carolina Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2004


9. Flaps
   Authors: Lee CN
   University of North Carolina Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Grand Rounds, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2005


10. Fingertip Injury
    Authors: Lee CN
    University of North Carolina Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Grand Rounds, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2005


11. Reconstructive Surgery
    Authors: Lee CN
    University of North Carolina Department of Surgery Medical Student Lecture Series, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2005


12. Time Management and Learning Strategies
    Authors: Lee CN
    University of North Carolina Department of Surgery Medical Student Clerkship Orientation, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2005 and 2006


13. Skin and Soft Tissue Tumors
    Authors: Lee CN
    University of North Carolina Department of Surgery Medical Student Lecture Series, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2005 and 2006


14. Flap Reconstruction
    Authors: Lee CN
    University of Malawi College of Medicine Surgery Grand Rounds, Blantyre, Malawi, 2006


15. Outcomes of Breast Reconstruction: A Systematic Review
    Authors: Lee CN, Pignone MP
    75th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, 2006


16. Plastic Surgery for Women after Pregnancy
    Authors: Lee CN
    University of North Carolina Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Rounds, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2006


17. Breast Reconstruction after Mastectomy in a Screened Population
    Authors: Lee CN, Allis R, Yankaskas B.
    Biennial Meeting of the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium, NIH, Rockville, MD, 2007

1. Volume and outcome in cancer surgery
   Authors: Halm EA, Lee CN, Chassin MR
   In Hewitt M and Petitti D (eds): Interpreting the Volume-Outcome Relationship in the Context of Cancer Care. Washington: National Academy Press, 2001


2. Provider volume and clinical outcomes in surgery: issues and implications
   Authors: Lee CN, Daly JM
   Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons 21-26, 2002


3. Is volume related to outcome in health care? A systematic review and methodologic critique of the literature
   Authors: Halm EA, Lee CN, Chassin MR
   Annals of Internal Medicine 137(6):511-20, 2002


4. Skin Lesions: Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Management
   Authors: Lee CN, McGrath MH
   In Cameron J (ed): Current Surgical Therapy. Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2003


5. Breast Reconstruction after Mastectomy in Young Women
   Authors: Lee CN, Foster RD
   Breast Disease 23:47-52, 2005


6. Producing Competent Plastic Surgeons: Longitudinal Analysis of Resident Case Volume, Performance on the In-Service Examination, and Board Certification
   Authors: Hultman CS, Lee CN, Van Aalst J, Damitz L, Losken W, Sloan G
   Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 116 (3supplement):187-188, 2005


7. Utility of the Omentum in the Reconstruction of Complex Oncologic Perineal Defects
   Authors: Hultman CS, Sherrill M, Lee CN, Teotia S, Calvo B, Meyers M, Ollila D, Boggess J, Kim HJ
   Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 116(3supplement):95-96, 2005


8. Reconstruction of Chest Wall and Back Defects: Sternal Wound Infections, Osteoradionecrosis, Tumor Resection, Pectus Deformities, Poland’s Syndrome Meningomyeolocele, Exposed Spinal Hardware
   Authors: Lee CN, Hultman CS
   In Losken A (ed): Plastic Surgery Board Review, St. Louis: Quality Medical Publishing, 2006


9. Do patients and providers agree about the most important facts and goals for breast reconstruction decisions?
   Authors: Lee CN, Hultman CS, Sepucha K
   Annals of Plastic Surgery. 2010 May; 64(5);563-6., 2010


10. Development of instruments to measure the quality of breast cancer treatment decisions.
    Authors: Lee CN, Dominik, R, Levin CA, Barry MJ, Cosenza C, O’Connor AM, Mulley AG, Sepucha K.
    Health Expectations. 2010 September;13(3):258-72., 2010


11. Surgery and global public health: the UNC-Malawi surgical initiative as a model for sustainable collaboration.
    Authors: Quereshi JS, Samuel J, Lee C, Cairns B, Shores C, Charles AG.
    World Journal of Surgery., 2011


12. Are patients making high-quality decisions about breast reconstruction after mastectomy?
    Authors: Lee CN, Belkora J, Chang Y, Moy, B, Partridge A, Sepucha K.
    Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2011 January;127(1):18-26., 2011

1. How is Volume Related to Quality in Health Care?
   Authors: Halm EA, Lee CN, Chassin MR
   National Cancer Policy Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, District of Columbia, 2000


2. Effects of work-hour restriction of surgical resident training
   Authors: Barden K, Specht MC, Lee CN, McCarter M
   American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL, 2001


3. Utility of the Omentum in the Reconstruction of Complex Oncologic Perineal Defects
   Authors: Hultman CS, Sherrill M, Lee CN, Teotia S, Calvo B, Meyers M, Ollila D, Boggess J, Kim HJ
   74th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Chicago, IL , 2005


4. Producing Competent Plastic Surgeons: Longitudinal Analysis of Resident Case Volume, Performance on the In-Service Examination, and Board Certification
   Authors: Hultman CS, Lee CN, Van Aalst J, Damitz L, Losken W, Sloan G
   Poster Session of the 74th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Chicago, IL, 2005


5. Utility of the Omentum in the Reconstruction of Complex Oncologic Perineal Defects
   Authors: Sherrill M, Hultman CS, Lee CN, Teotia S, Calvo B, Meyers M, Ollila D, Boggess J, Kim HJ
   Womack Surgical Society, Chapel Hill, NC, 2005


6. Skin-sparing mastectomy flap complications following breast reconstruction: Risk factors, effect on adjuvant therapies, and impact on recurrence
   Authors: Hultman CS, Mcphail L, Klauber-DeMore N, Damitz L, Lee CN, Ollila DW, Meyers MO, Calvo BF, Kim HJ, Meyer AA
   75th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, 2006


7. Outcomes of Breast Reconstruction: A Systematic Review
   Authors: Lee CN, Pignone MP
   75th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, 2006