Biographies

Dr. Daniel J. Lee is a fellowship-trained pediatric and adult otologist - neurotologist and is board-certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology. He is on the fulltime clinical staff in the Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI) and the Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

He has recently been named the principal investigator for the recently established Helene and Grant Wilson Auditory Brainstem Implant program, a clinical and research effort based at MEEI and Massachusetts General Hospital.

His clinical interests focus on pediatric and adult cochlear implantation, auditory brainstem implants, sudden single-sided deafness, and superior semicircular canal dehiscence.

Dr. Lee is a Principal Investigator and Research Associate in the Eaton-Peabody Laboratory at MEEI. He has received continuous funding from the NIH since 2003 and his basic science research efforts involve the study of auditory brainstem circuits and auditory brainstem implants. He is a co-investigator with Daniel Merfeld PhD and Richard Lewis MD at the Jenks Vestibular Laboratory, MEEI, on the vestibular prosthesis project.

Dr. Lee received his BA in Biology from Columbia and his MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed his internship in the Department of Surgery and residency in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine .

Following residency, Dr. Lee completed a research and clinical fellowship in the Center for Hearing Sciences and the Division of Otology, Neurotology, and Skull Base Surgery under the mentorship of Lloyd Minor MD, John Niparko, MD, and David Ryugo PhD. He is former director of the Cochlear Implant Program at UMass Memorial Medical Center.

Dr. Lee has lectured extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Dr. Lee has co-authored a number of basic and clinical research publications and has been the recipient of several NIH and private foundation research grants.

In addition to serving on the boards of The Gift of Hearing Foundation and Partners for a Greater Voice, Dr. Lee has also founded and contributes to several web-based sites that provide educational resources to cochlear implant candidates, patients, and their families. He is also dedicated to improving reimbursement gaps for pediatric cochlear implant services in Massachusetts and has teamed with Rep. Jamie Eldridge towards this goal with Bill No. 3855.