Francis S. Lee, MD, PhD

Dr. Lee joined Weill Cornell Medicine's faculty in 2002 and in 2018 was named Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and psychiatrist-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Lee is an accomplished neurobiologist and psychiatrist studying the molecular basis of mood and anxiety disorders, intending to understand why many of them emerge during the transition from childhood to adolescence. By combining basic and translational approaches, Dr. Lee's discoveries have led to the development of advanced biologically targeted psychiatric diagnostic tools and treatments. Dr. Lee has served on several boards at the National Institutes of Health and national mental health foundations and has received numerous honors, including election to the National Academy of Medicine.