Joyce M Lee, MD, MPH

Dr. Joyce Lee, MD, MPH is the Robert P. Kelch Professor of Pediatrics at Michigan Medicine, and is board-certified in Clinical Informatics, Pediatric Endocrinology, with formal training in Health Services Research. She serves as Clinical Domain Oversight Officer for Adult and Pediatric Medical Specialties and Psychiatry, overseeing an ambulatory operational structure spanning 22 divisions and over 700 providers. She holds several additional leadership roles: Associate Chief Medical Information Officer; Associate Chair of Health Metrics and Learning Health Systems for the Department of Pediatrics; and Associate Director for Informatics and Clinical Research Innovation for the Caswell Diabetes Institute. She has training in Advanced Methods in Quality Improvement, holds Epic Physician Builder certification, and has skills in data analytics using sql and Tableau business intelligence software.

In these roles, she leads faculty and staff across the Michigan Medicine enterprise — including operational ambulatory leaders, quality improvement teams, and clinical translational investigators — toward enterprise goals around access, financial performance, and patient health outcomes. She helps leaders leverage the full range of institutional data for action and outcomes, including electronic health record data, finance and human resources data, and clinical outcomes data. Her current leadership work centers on data visualization and data governance, including serving as the core director of the Life Course Informatics Core of the Michigan Nutrition Obesity Research Center (P30) and supporting data governance for an all-payer, statewide quality improvement collaborative for type 2 diabetes that integrates claims, clinical, and health information exchange data. She also collaborates with human-computer interaction and machine learning/artificial intelligence experts to improve diabetes care and health outcomes using clinical and diabetes device data.
To date, she has published 178 peer-reviewed papers, serving as first or senior author on more than 80 of them. She has served as Principal Investigator on multiple NIH grants, spent time as a visiting scholar at the former Verily, and served on the medical advisory board for GoodRx. In 2016, she was named the Robert P. Kelch Professor of Pediatrics and became the first recipient of the Paul Kaplowitz, MD, Endowed Lectureship, awarded by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Endocrine Society for contributions to quality and cost-effective care in Pediatric Endocrinology.

I am a pediatric translational researcher and one of the few individuals across the country who has completed dual training in Pediatric Endocrinology and Pediatric Health Services Research and a Master’s in Public Health, with a research agenda focused on the overarching themes of childhood obesity and diabetes. Because of my specialized training, I have been able to approach these problems from a unique vantage point, using a variety of methodologies including health services research, applied clinical research, participatory and human-centered design, and learning health systems and quality improvement science. To date, I have 178 peer-reviewed publications, and I am first or senior author on over 80 of those publications. Through my work I have developed a national and international reputation in the field of Pediatric Endocrinology. My major research contributions have included studies evaluating screening guidelines for type 2 diabetes among overweight and obese children, real-world utilization of medications like GLP-1 medications, and health outcomes, data literacy, and patient engagement research in type 1 diabetes. In 2016 I was named the Robert P. Kelch Professor of Pediatrics and I was the first recipient of the Paul Kaplowitz, MD, Endowed Lectureship for my contributions to quality and cost-effective care in Pediatric Endocrinology, an award sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pediatric Endocrine Society.

I am a board-certified informaticist, with training in Advanced Methods in Quality Improvement from Cincinnati Children’s, Epic Physician Builder certification, and skills in data analytics including SQL and Tableau business intelligence dashboards. I currently serve as the Clinical Domain Oversight Officer for Adult Medical Specialties, Pediatric Medical Specialties, and Psychiatry, overseeing an ambulatory operational structure of 22 divisions and over 700 providers. I also have multiple leadership roles as Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for Pediatric Research, Associate Chair for Health Metrics and Learning Health Systems for the Department of Pediatrics, and Associate Director for Informatics and Clinical Research Innovation for the Caswell Diabetes Institute. In these roles, I lead efforts to support clinical translational investigators, providing access to electronic health record and device data, and expertise in how to use clinical and health information technology to integrate research into the “real-world” healthcare delivery setting. Particular areas of focus include the design and development of customized electronic health record and analytics tools to support learning health systems and implementation research, and collaborations with human computing interaction and machine learning/artificial intelligence experts using continuous glucose monitoring and insulin pump data to improve care and health outcomes in diabetes. I have expertise in the capture, integration, and synthesis of multidimensional health data (patient level wearable data, health system clinical data, operational and finance data, insurance claims and state-level health information exchange data), and I support data governance and data literacy for enterprise leadership to help individuals understand, learn from, and take action with data.