Dr. Lee joined UCare in 2016 as Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Medical Officer. He provides strategic guidance and clinical leadership, and oversees the Medical Director team and UCare’s Pharmacy, Clinical Services, and Quality Management departments. In addition to holding several health care executive positions, Dr. Lee has been a practicing internal medicine physician. He most recently was a staff physician and clinician educator with the Veterans Health Administration in Minneapolis, Minn. Prior to that, Dr. Lee spent three years as Vice President and Executive Medical Director for Quality and Provider Relations at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (BCBS) in Eagan, Minn. His responsibilities included overseeing the health plan’s quality department, Medicare Stars measurement and improvement, and companywide activities related to quality of care, health status and member experience. He also provided medical leadership for BCBS’s provider contracting department and for Blue Plus, the health maintenance organization subsidiary of BCBS.

 Dr. Lee joined UCare in 2016 as Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Medical Officer. He provides strategic guidance and clinical leadership, and oversees the Medical Director team and UCare’s Pharmacy, Clinical Services, and Quality Management departments. In addition to holding several health care executive positions, Dr. Lee has been a practicing internal medicine physician. He most recently was a staff physician and clinician educator with the Veterans Health Administration in Minneapolis, Minn. Prior to that, Dr. Lee spent three years as Vice President and Executive Medical Director for Quality and Provider Relations at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (BCBS) in Eagan, Minn. His responsibilities included overseeing the health plan’s quality department, Medicare Stars measurement and improvement, and companywide activities related to quality of care, health status and member experience. He also provided medical leadership for BCBS’s provider contracting department and for Blue Plus, the health maintenance organization subsidiary of BCBS.