Dr. Lee earned his BS from Rutgers and his PhD from GW. He has over 10 years of statistical computing experience in academia, government, and industry. He specializes in tidy data, linear modeling, null hypothesis significance testing, the grammar of graphics, and transparent and reproducible research. See his published repositories here.
Contact
Email:
smlee [at] gwu [dot] edu (smlee[at]gwu[dot]edu)
Office:
GW Medical Faculty Associates
6B-408
2150 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, DC 20037
202-677-6073
OCR Publications
2025
Meltzer AC, Payette C, Heidish R, Lagunzad I, Loganathan A, Bolden T, Friedman M, Pieri M, Huang W, DeBritz W, Luck N, Lee SM. Point-of-Care Respiratory Diagnosis and Antibiotic Utilization in the Emergency Department: A Prospective Evaluation of Multiplex PCR. Acad Emerg Med. 2025; Accepted.
Smaoui S, Lee SM, Ganesan S, Ankeney E, Ferraro T, Dorward R, Cardman EA, Joshi A. Quantitative analysis of videofluoroscopy following total laryngectomy using the ASPEKT Method. Head Neck. 2025; In press.
Matecki M, Noureldin A, Akkari R, Cohen Z, McMullan M, Hawkins K, Williams J, Nwude A, Yamane D, Sarani B, Lee SM, Kartiko S. Phenobarbital addition to alcohol withdrawal treatment offers better outcomes than dexmedetomidine in hospitalized patients. J Intensive Care Med. 2025; In press.
Ferraro T, Ganesan S, Arrighi-Allisan A, Zaheer MA, Fangmeyer S, Sotudeh S, Lee E, Tummala N, Thakkar P, Lee SM, Peng Hwa T. Trends in female authorship at American Academy of Otolaryngology-HNS annual meetings from 2007 to 2022. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2025; In press.
Amorim MR, Williams N, Aung O, Ruiz MA, Anokye-Danso F, de Deus JL, Xiong J, Dergacheva O, Bevans-Fonti S, Lee SM, Berger JS, Wu MN, Ahima R, Mendelowitz D, Polotsky VY. Targeting melanocortin 4 receptor to treat sleep disordered breathing in mice. J Clin Invest. 2025;135(12).
Shin MK, Kim LJ, Davaanyam D, Amorim MR, Lee SM, Tang WY, Polotsky VY. Leptin receptor downregulation in the carotid body treats obesity-induced hypertension. J Neurophysiol. 2025;133(3), 892-903.
Kucera J, Rodriguez G, Halbert S, Arnott S, Lee SM, Nagy C, Trachiotis G, Antevil J. Outcomes following surgical aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass grafting vs transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis and coronary artery disease. Heart Surg Forum. 2025; 28(8), E595-E604.
Roy A, Shin MK, Davaanyam D, Williams N, Lee SM, Tang WY, Polotsky VY. Diet-induced obesity in mice increases carotid body chemosensitivity via the leptin-TRPM7 pathway. J Physiol. 2025;603(17):4887-4905.
Bauman TA, Lee SM, Juel VC, Li Y, Gilbert K, Chen J, Kaminski HJ, Kusner LL; MGNet Investigators. Serum fibrinogen is not elevated in patients with myasthenia gravis. Sci Rep. 2025;15(1):13013.
Noureldin A, Li R, Atahar J, Matecki M, Lee SM, Kartiko S. Should we redefine the age of geriatric trauma? An insight from ACS-TQIP database 30-day mortality risk. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2025;10-1097.
Ferraro T, Smaoui S, Lee SM, Ahmed AK, Lee E, Thakkar P, Tummala N. The intersection of race, ethnicity and sex on postoperative complications in otolaryngology. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2025;172(6), 1943-1953.
Rugeles Suarez T, Leigh C, Harring M, Gowda N, Maldonado-Puebla M, Lee SM, Shah N, Catalanotti JS. Completion of colonoscopy after positive fecal occult blood test screening at a community health center. JGH Open. 2025;9(3), p.e70129.
Rogers CB, Pence MJ, Whitley J, Mattson A, Lee SM, Keller J. Examining disparities in the evaluation and management of cesarean birth pain among patients with and without a psychiatric condition. Cureus. 2025;17(2).
Saouda C, Nofal O, Makke Y, Eid A, Vinarsky V, Edelberg H, Lee SM, Koubeissi M. Effectiveness and tolerability of cenobamate: A single-center experience. Epilepsy Res. 2025;209, 107498.
2024
Frenkel M, Iyer S, Antar R, Akram A, Lee SM, Lichtenberger J, Shin B. Dual-energy subtraction radiography: a systematic review and meta-analysis of pulmonary nodule detection. Clin Radiol. 2024;106709.
Calderon JA, Ebeid A, Lee SM, Ahmadzia HK. Correlation of predelivery rotational thromboelastometry readings with the risk of postpartum hemorrhage during delivery: The ROTEM Study. J Neonatal Perinat Med. 2024;18(1), 18-24.
Daniel A, Haney V, Tveit M, Lipkin I, Lee SM, Couch K, Wallace SJ, Teal CB, Ranganath B. Evaluating the effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat mastectomy skin flap ischemia in breast reconstruction: A single-institution retrospective analysis. Am J Surg. 2024;242, 116110.
Haney V, Lee SM, Goldman J, Akiska YM, Bakovic M, Ju T, McSwain A, Teal CB. Evaluating the effect of MarginProbe use on re-excisions after partial mastectomy: A single-institution analysis. Ann Surg Oncol. 2024;31(12), 8068-8075.
Ebner M, Lee SM, Sterling EK, Nesson A, Cordes SA, Felfeli M, Slota J, Berger JS, Ahmadzia HK. Oxygen saturation during a cesarean identified patients at risk for postpartum hemorrhage. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2024; 231(1), e15-e18.
Ferraro T, Ahmed AK, Lee E, Lee SM, Debbaneh PM, Thakkar P, Joshi A, Tummala N. Race and ethnicity independently predict adverse outcomes following head and neck autograft surgery. Laryngoscope. 2024;134(8), 3595-3603.
Xu VE, Antar RM, Bertozzi L, Drouaud A, Azari S, Lee SM, Whalen MJ. Efficacy of cytoreductive radical cystectomy in metastatic urothelial bladder cancer based on site and number of metastases. Urol Oncol. 2024;42(5), 162-e11.
Ferraro T, Cole J, Lee SM, Pershad AR, Lee E, Hildebrand H, Harrington C, Derdzakyan NA, Gold BO, Tummala N, Thakkar P. Trends of female authorship in head and neck surgery publications over the last decade. Head Neck. 2024;46(11), 2744-2753.
Haney V, Arnautovic A, Lee SM, Lee J. Risk of bleeding versus venous thromboembolism after surgery for breast cancer: A National Surgical Quality Improvement Program analysis. J Surg Res. 2024;300, 432-438.