Dr. Lee has steered all patient safety and quality initiatives at North American Partners in Anesthesia for eight years, overseeing a national organization of nearly 5,000 clinicians across more than 400 facilities and serving more than two million patients annually. He architected the organization’s adverse event reporting software and the anesthesia risk alert program, a framework that identifies five high-risk clinical scenarios and sets structured triggers and protocols for each. This framework earned the “John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award” for national level innovation from The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum in 2022, and the “Patient Safety Award” from the American Society for Health Care Risk Management in 2023. Dr. Lee also developed a specialty-specific quality and patient safety dashboard that benchmarks anesthesia services across facilities on 10 parameters, and leads the organization’s “Care for the Caregiver” program, which provides structured, trauma-informed support to anesthesia professionals after critical events. He serves as medical director of the NAPA Anesthesia Patient Safety Institute, one of only five anesthesia-specific patient safety organizations certified by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Lee also serves on national and international committees focused on safe patient care during crises.
