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Job Title Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

One Children's Hospital Drive
4401 Penn Ave.

Pittsburgh, PA 15224

412-692-5147 Phone

412-692-8531 Fax

Email sojung.lee@chp.edu

Graduate School:

PhD, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada (2004)
MS, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (2000)

North American Association for the Study of Obesity
American Diabetes Association
Pediatric Academic Societies
Expert Panel Member of the Pediatric Metabolic Syndrome Working Group, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

University of Manitoba Travel Grant Award
2001-2004 Queen’s University Graduate Scholarship
2001-2004 International Student Tuition Bursary
Young Investigator Award: Serono Symposia International (Metabolic Syndrome/Metabolic Risk)

Lee S, Gungor N, Bacha F, Arslanian SA. Insulin resistance: link to the components of the metabolic syndrome and biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction in youth. Diabetes Care 30: 2091-2097, 2007.
Lee S, Bacha F, Gungor N, Arslanian SA. Cardiorespiratory fitness in youth: relationship to insulin sensitivity and b-cell function. Obesity 14(9):1579-1585, 2006.
Lee S, Bacha F, Gungor N, Arslanian SA. Waist circumference is an independent predictor of insulin resistance in African-American and White youth. J Pediatr 148(2):188-194, 2006.