Vivian Lee
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Elected 2015

Dr. Lee’s unique career accomplishments span multiple disciplines in the areas of advanced MR imaging methods, clinical application, research administration, and health care transformation. A committed physician-scientist, discoveries from her lab include developing now standard-of-care 3D contrast-enhanced liver MRI methods, pioneering MR renography to measure renal function noninvasively, and advancing novel methods for non-contrast-enhanced MR angiography. She maintains an active laboratory with three NIH R01 grants. She has chaired NIH study sections and serves on Council of Councils. Her leadership in MRI also is reflected in her roles as Program Committee Chair and past President of the ISMRM, the MR professional society and editorial board roles. An avid medical educator, she has received multiple teaching awards and single-authored a textbook, Cardiovascular MRI (Lippincott 2006). Administratively, Dr. Lee leads a major academic health sciences center. Driven by her vision, Utah became the first system to quantify outcomes against costs of care (Value Driven Outcomes), and the first to publish patient satisfaction scores online, with now 26% of providers rated in top 1% nationally. She launched the Center for Medical Innovation (42 provisional patents filed by students last year) and the Utah Genome Project, sequencing large Utah pedigrees for genetic discovery in personalized medicine. Programs in faculty development and inclusion have translated to significant rates of success; the medical school received state funding to expand its class size 50%; and in 2013, Dr. Lee established the first new academic dental school in the US in over 25 years.