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W. P. Andrew Lee, MD, FACS
Job Title
Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Director, Hand Surgery Fellowship
4401 Penn Avenue, Suite Floor 3
Pittsburgh,
PA
15224
412-692-8622
Phone
412-692-8614
Fax
Email
andrew.lee@chp.edu
Education and Training
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Medical School: |
1983 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD |
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Residency: |
1989 General Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD |
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Fellowship: |
1987 Microsurgery Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD |
Memberships
- American Association of Plastic Surgeons
- World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery
- American Society for Surgery of the Hand
- American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons
- American Association for Hand Surgery
- Plastic Surgery Research Council
Board Certifications
- American Board of Surgery
- American Board of Plastic Surgery; Certificate for Added Qualification in Hand Surgery
Awards
- 2005 Pittsburgh's Top Doctors (Hand Surgery), Pittsburgh Magazine
Publications
- Prolongation of composite tissue allograft survival by immature recipient dendritic cells pulsed with donor antigen and transient low-dose immunosuppression.
Sacks JM, Kuo YR, Taieb A, Breitinger J, Nguyen VT, Thomson AW, Feili-Hariri M, Lee WP
Plast Reconstr Surg
Research Interests
- Tolerance induction to composite tissue allografts
Biography Summary
W.P. Andrew Lee, MD, FACS, is professor of surgery, chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery and director of the Hand Surgery Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Dr. Lee came to Children's in 2002 after more than a decade at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he was chief of the hand surgery service in the Department of Surgery and director of the Plastic Surgery Research Laboratory. He also was director of the hand and microvascular surgery fellowship.
Active Research Projects / Grants
- Senior Investigator, Donor Dendritic Cells for Composite Tissue Allotransplantation, Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation
- Senior Investigator, Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells and Induction of Donor Antigen-Specific Tolerance to Vascularized Skin Allograft, American Society for Surgery of the Hand
- Co-Investigator, Surface-modified biodegradable conduits for nerve repair, American Association for Hand Surgery
