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Alexandra Lee, PhD, MSPH
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine
3333 California Street, #81P
San Francisco, CA 94118
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Education and Training
Amherst College,Amherst, MA, BA - 2009 Music
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University,Atlanta, GA, MSPH - 2013 Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,Baltimore, MD, PhD - 2017 Epidemiology
University of California,San Francisco, CA 2021 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training
Overview
Dr. Alexandra Lee, PhD, MSPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Geriatrics in the UCSF Department of Medicine. Her research focuses on diabetes in older adults and aims to understand how diabetes management approaches should change as people age and develop competing health priorities. Her work seeks to clarify the risks of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia in older adults, including the how these dysglycemic events may increase the risk of other geriatric outcomes, including falls, cognitive decline, functional impairment, and behavioral symptoms of dementia.
Prior to joining faculty at UCSF, Dr. Lee completed a post-doctoral fellowship in aging research with the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. She received her PhD in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, her MSPH in Epidemiology from Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and her BA from Amherst College.
Prior to joining faculty at UCSF, Dr. Lee completed a post-doctoral fellowship in aging research with the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. She received her PhD in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, her MSPH in Epidemiology from Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and her BA from Amherst College.