Douglas Lee

Senior Core Scientist
Program Lead

ICES Affiliation

ICES Central
Cardiovascular Research Program

Phone
416-480-4055 Ext. 3018

Assistant
Dina Svirsky, Research Administrative Coordinator, 416-480-4055 Ext. 3426

Biography

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Education

PhD, Health Policy and Clinical Epidemiology, Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
FRCPC, Cardiology, University of Toronto
MD, University of Toronto

Research Focus

Cardiovascular disorders
Diagnostic testing/imaging
Health care quality
Outcomes research
Health technology assessment

Other Affiliations

Professor, Medicine, University of Toronto
Scientist, Toronto General Research Institute
Cardiologist, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre and University Health Network
Ted Rogers Chair in Heart Functions Outcomes, Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research

Recent ICES Grants

Statistical methods for health services research

Principal investigator: Austin PC
Co-investigators: Fine J, Lee DS
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Grant
2019-2022; $206,550
Contemporary management and long-term clinical course of claudicants in Ontario

Principal Investigator: de Mestral C
Co-investigators: Al-Omran M, Johnston KW, Lee D, Roche-Nagle G.
Blair Foundation, Operating Grant
2019-2021; $20,000
Development and application of a patient-defined outcome in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy

Principal investigator: Sun L
Co-investigators: Austin PC; Beanlands R; Duffett L; Lee DS; Ruel M; Tulloch HE; Wells GA.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Project Scheme Grant
2019-2022; $260,101

Recent Awards & Recognition

Heart and Stroke Foundation Ontario Mid-Career Investigator Award

2016 – 2020: Awarded to Dr. Douglas Lee for Program of Research on Outcomes, Treatment, and Evaluation of Care in the Spectrum of HF (PROTECT-HF).
4/1/2016
Robert E. Beamish Award

2014: Awarded to Dr. Doug Lee by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. This honour is given to the lead author of a research article published in The Canadian Journal of Cardiology within the past three years that is judged to have the greatest potential impact in cardiovascular medicine.
11/5/2014
CIHR Clinician Scientist Award

2013-2016: Awarded to Dr. Doug Lee.
6/1/2013

Recent ICES Publications

6/11/2020

Age, not sex, modifies the effect of frailty on long-term outcomes after cardiac surgery

Sun LY, Spence SD, Benton S, Beanlands RS, Austin PC, Eddeen AB, Lee DS. Ann Surg. 2020; Jun 11 [Epub ahead of print]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/SLA.0000000000004060

5/14/2020

Readmission rates following heart failure: a scoping review of sex and gender based considerations

Hoang-Kim A, Parpia C, Freitas C, Austin PC, Ross HJ, Wijeysundera HC, Tu K, Mak S, Farkouh ME, Sun LY, Schull MJ, Mason R, Lee DS, Rochon PA. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2020; 20(1):223. Epub 2020 May 14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12872-020-01422-3

4/27/2020

Calibration and discrimination of the Framingham Risk Score and the Pooled Cohort Equations

Ko DT, Sivaswamy A, Sud M, Kotrri G, Azizi P, Koh M, Austin PC, Lee DS, Roifman I, Thanassoulis G, Tu K, Udell JA, Wijeysundera HC, Anderson TJ. CMAJ. 2020; 192 (17):E442-9. Epub 2020 Apr 27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.190848

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News coverage

tctMD8/9/2019Article

Echo overuse in heart failure stabilizes in the wake of Ontario appropriateness efforts

The Star7/31/2014Article

Bigger hospital better after heart failure, study finds

TheHeart.org 5/30/2014Article