Cindy Lee, MD

Cindy Lee, MD, FSBI, FACMQ, CMQ, is the Chief of Breast Imaging and Vice Chair of Clinical Research and Faculty Affairs at the Stony Brook Renaissance School of Medicine. She graduated at the top 3% of her undergraduate class and medical school class at State University of New York at Stony Brook. She completed her radiology residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and served as a Resident Scholar for the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She then completed a breast and ultrasound fellowship at the University of California San Francisco, where she taught medical trainees as Assistant Professor, before joining NYU in 2017. She was recruited to Stony Brook in 2023 for her clinical expertise and research in breast cancer screening performance. 

In addition to clinical training, Dr. Lee is board certified in medical quality by the American Board of Medical Quality. Recognized for expertise in quality improvement, she was named as the Stephen Amis Fellow in Quality and Safety by the American College of Radiology, as well as a Quality Scholar by the American College of Medical Quality (ACMQ) in 2012. Cindy also served as the Scientific Program Chair for the ACMQ Annual Meeting from 2016-2018 and was appointed to the ACMQ Board of Trustee in 2019 to provide leadership and education in healthcare quality management.

Her research focuses on improving patient outcome by optimizing the screening performance audits, though her outcome research with the ACR National Mammography Database. As the former Chair of NMD research subcommittee, she led and first-authored the landmark study on NMD screening performance benchmarks and continues to work with the NMD on studies evaluating personalized screening for breast cancer. She has over 60 publications and given multiple lectures nationally and internationally. 

She holds national leadership positions in multiple committees within the American Roentgen Ray Society and American College of Radiology. During her spare time, she enjoys pickleball, traveling, ballroom dancing with her husband and cooking with her kids.
 

Research Interests:  Breast cancer screening performance and patient outcome; Healthcare data outcome analysis; Artificial Intelligence and big data in breast imaging; Contrast enhanced digital mammography, contrast enhanced digital breast tomosynthesis

Publications can be viewed here:                                                                        Lee Cindy - Search Results - PubMed (nih.gov)

Alpha Omega Alpha: Member (Junior inductee);  Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound: Toshiba Resident Award;  American College of Medical Quality: Quality Scholar Honorable Mention;    American College of Medical Quality: High Impact Achievement Scholarship;  Johns Hopkins Hospital; Department of Radiology Resident Research Award;  Radiological Society of North American: Certificate of Merit; San Francisco General Hospital: Women’s Advancement and Recognition in Medicine;  American College of Medical Quality: Fellow;  Society of Breast Imaging: Fellow;   Radiology, RSNA: Editor’s Recognition Award for reviewers;  American Roentgen Ray Society: Certificate of Merit;  Journal of American College of Radiology; Best of 2020 Publication Award