Medical researcher and professor of medicine Patty J. Lee, M.D., discusses her remarkable career and rich family life. She talks about the advantages of having an entire family of regular meditators and the personal benefits of her daily Transcendental Meditation practice for her success and well-being.

Dr. Lee is a nationally recognized medical researcher and professor of medicine. From 1998 to 2019, she was an instructor at Yale School of Medicine and then was recruited by Duke University School of Medicine as Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care. Dr. Lee is currently a professor of pulmonary medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, one of America’s leading medical research centers. As a major part of her work, she is building and leading the project for the new IDEAS Center—the Institute for Interdisciplinary Experimental Aging Sciences.

Medical researcher and professor of medicine Patty J. Lee, M.D., discusses her remarkable career and rich family life.

Dr. Lee’s career as a physician-scientist led to discoveries that have developed new paradigms in understanding innate immune signaling, an important component of the immune system. During her tenure at Duke, despite COVID-19, she expanded her research by spearheading interdisciplinary projects while building teams of scientists, project managers, coordinators, and trainees to implement significant, well-funded research awards.

Dr. Lee received her bachelor’s and medical degrees from Brown University, followed by a residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she remained for fellowship training in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine.

Mario Orsatti, host of TM Talks and U.S. Director of Advanced Techniques of the TM program, interviewed Dr. Patty Lee on August 18, 2024.

Watch the conversation with Dr. Patty Lee (45:28)


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