Dr. Lee graduated from Johns Hopkins University, where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering with honors. She then attended Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, where she received her medical degree with academic distinction. Dr. Lee completed her post-graduate training at Mount Sinai Medical Center, including her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in gastroenterology.As part of her fellowship, she also perused research in the specialized areas of ethnic disparities in colon cancer screening and inflammatory bowel disease.