Raphael C Lee MD MSBmE, ScD, FACS

Summary

• Dr. Raphael Lee is a distinguished plastic surgeon based in Chicago, IL, with subspecialties in electrical and radiation injury management and scar management. He completed his advanced training with a residency in general surgery at the University of Chicago and and a residency in plastic surgery Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. His academic credentials include degrees in biomedical engineering from Drexel University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Lee holds the Paul Russell distinguished service emeritus professorship at the University of Chicago and serves on the board of the Chicago Electrical Trauma Research Institute. His clinical expertise spans general plastic surgery, abdominal wall reconstruction, wound repair, hypertrophic scars, and electric injuries. He has contributed to medical literature, with recent publications in fields such as the biophysics of electrical injury, closed-loop modeling of blood coagulation, surgical fitness and collagenase gene expression in scar fibroblasts. Over the course of his career he has earned him several accolades, including being named among America's Top Plastic Surgeons by US News & Word Report, election to Fellowship in the National Academy of Engineer, American Surgical Association, the American Association of Plastic Surgery, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and others.