NEW YORK DOCTOR/WRITER
SELECTED NYC RELATED WRITING SAMPLES
( SCIENCE/MEDICAL WRITING IN SEPARATE SECTION BELOW )
Six Things You Can Do Today to Help the AAPI Community
NBC News, interview of Dr. Russell Jeung, cofounder of StopAAPIHate.org
Bystander Intervention Training Can Save A Life
KevinMD
Why Rallying After the Atlanta Shootings Was Healing For Asian-American Healthcare Workers
(Stat News)
Enough is Enough
(Eric Sze of 886, Life & Thyme)
Is There a Light at the End of the COVID Tunnel for NY's Restaurants?
Salon. Civil Eats
Interviews of Council Member Keith Powers, NY Hospitality Executive Andrew Rigie, Cote, Malt & Mold, Fresh Taste Bakery
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Five Asian-American Restauranteurs Reflect on Rising Anti-Asian Hate
Infatuation
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Reflections from a first-year doctor in the COVID-19 pandemic in NYC
(Synapsis Health Humanities Journal)
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Is There a Light at the End of the Tunnel of COVID for NYC Restaurants?
NYC Council Member Keith Powers, Andrew Rigie (NYC Hospitality Executive Director), Antwoin Guiterrez, Simon Kim, Kevin Health, Civil Eats
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As Coronavirus Persists, Ktown Adapts (10 Ktown Restaurants, New York Magazine's Grub Street)
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Chef Fresh & COVID
Dirty Spoon Website, Radio Hour 103.7 FM, Itunes
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Cold Temperatures Won't Stop Manhattan's Sizzling Korean Barbecue Houses (Cote, Jongro, etc, Eater)
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New York COVID Doctor Interviews the Thai-Chinese Family Feeding Healthcare Workers
(Thai Sliders, Zagat)
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From Pandemic to Protests: How Food Businesses Are Responding (Cho Dang Gol, Bon Appétit)
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Honest Food: From Med School Dropout to Michelin Star Chef
(Hooni Kim, Danji/Hanjan, NYC, Koream Magazine)
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Not Your Cookie Cutter Bakery
(Macaron Parlour, NYC, Koream Magazine)
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Would You Like Food to Go With That Drink?
(Barn Joo, NYC, Koream Magazine)
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Let Them Eat Rice Cake
(Besfren, NYC, Koream Magazine)
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New American-Italian-Korean Cuisine
(Simon Kim/Chris Cipollone, Piora, NYC, Koream Magazine)
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MEDICAL WRITING & EDITING
Medical Writer of 70-page health book on spine health
March 2018
Editor-in-Chief of Cornell's Journal of Humanities in Medicine
May 2016
Medical Editor of 80-page health book on foot & ankle health
February 2019
Reflections from a first-year doctor in the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City (Synapsis Health Humanities Journal)
October 2020
PODCAST & TALKS
DOCTORS SHARE EXPERIENCES WORKING DURING COVID-19
Biorepublic Skin Care, Instagram TV
May 15, 2020
KOREAN FOOD CLASSICS & KTOWN NIGHTS WITH MICHELLE
Locasaurus Recs, New York
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
SELECTED SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS
Hatzoglou V, Oh JH, Buck O, Lin X, Lee M, Shukla-Dave A, Young RJ, Peck KK, Vachha B, Holodny AI, Grommes C. Pretreatment dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI biomarkers correlate with progression-free survival in primary central nervous system lymphoma, J Neuro Oncology, 2018 Aug 2nd.
Lin X*, Lee M*, Buck O, Woo KM, Zhang Z, Hatzoglou V, Omuro A, Arevalo-Perez J, Thomas AA, Huse J, Peck K, Holodny AI, Young RJ. Diagnostic accuracy of T1-weighted dynamic contrast-enhanced-MRI and DWI-ADC for differentiation of glioblastoma and primary CNS lymphoma. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2017 Mar;38(3):485-491. *equal first-authors
Wang J, Kelly GC, Tate WJ, Lee M, Gutierrez J, Louis ED, Faust PL, Kuo SH. EAAT Expression in the essential tremor dentate nucleus and cerebellar cortex: a postmortem study. Parksinsonism Relat Disord. 2016 Nov;32:87-93.
Lee M, Cheng MM, Lin CY, Louis ED, Faust PL, Kuo SH. Decreased EAAT2 protein expression in the essential tremor cerebellar cortex. Acta Neuropathol. Commun. 2014 Nov 13;2(1):157-168.
Louis ED, Lee M, Cortés E, Vonsattel JPG, Faust PL. Reduced purkinje cell dendritic arborization and loss of dendritic spines in essential tremor. Brain. 2014 Dec; 137:3142-8.
Louis RJ, Lee M, Kuo SH, Vonsattel JP, Louis ED, Faust PL. Cellular density in the cerebellar molecular layer in essential tremor, spinocerebellar ataxia, and controls. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2014 Nov;20(11):1270-3.
Louis ED, Lee M, Cortés E, Vonsattel JPG, Faust PL. Matching asymmetry of tremor with asymmetry of postmortem cerebellar hemispheric changes in essential tremor. Cerebellum. 2014 Aug; 13(4):462-70.
Pan JJ, Lee M, Honig LS, Vonsattel JPG, Faust PL, Louis ED. Alzheimer’s-related changes in non- demented essential tremor cases vs. controls: links between tau and tremor? Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2014 Jun;20(6):655-8.
Gillman A, Babij R, Lee M, Moskowitz C, Louis ED. Reflections: Neurology and the humanities. Odd harvest. Neurology. 2014 Jan 14;82(2):184-6.
Babij R, Lee M, Cortes E, Vonsattel JPG, Faust PL, Louis ED. Purkinje cell axonal anatomy: quantifying morphometric changes in essential tremor versus control brains. Brain. 2013 Oct;316(10):3051-61.
Louis ED, Babij R, Lee M, Cortes E, Vonsattel JPG, Faust PL. Quantification of cerebellar hemispheric purkinje cell linear density: 32 ET cases versus 16 controls. Mov Disord. 2013 Nov;28(13):1854-9.
ACADEMIC SCIENCE TALKS
Lee M et al. Clinical characteristics of early noncritical hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease (Covid- 19): a single-center retrospective study in New York City. Infectious Diseases Week, 2020 Oct, Philadelphia, PA
Lee M et al. Clinical characteristics of early noncritical hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease (Covid- 19): a single-center retrospective study in New York City. Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital. Research Symposium, 2020 May, New York, NY.
Lee M et al. Potential Differences in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced (DCE) MRI Perfusion between Primary CNS and Glioblastoma. Eastern Neuroradiological Society, 2016 Aug, Montreal, Canada.
Lee M, Keane MM, Gleason T. Factors contributing to the emergence of future thinking in children. Eastern Psychological Association, 2013 March, New York, NY.
Lee M, Keane MM, Gleason T. Development of episodic memory and future thinking in children. New England Psychological Association, 2012 Oct, Worcester, MA.
AWARDS
New York State Radiological Society Scholarship for 2020 Young Physician Leadership Summit
American Association of University Women Professions Fellowship
American Medical Women’s Association Award
Wellesley Alumni Scholarship for Graduate Study in Medicine
Wellesley College Neuroscience Honors- Best Neuroscience Thesis
New England Psychological Association Honorary Scholar