Walter Lee
Professor of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
Professor in Radiation Oncology
Affiliate, Duke Global Health Institute
Dr. Walter Lee is Associate Professor in the Departments of Head and Neck Surgery & Communications Sciences and Radiation Oncology. He has a clinical focus on cancers of the head and neck and serves as the Co-Director of the Head and Neck Program in the Duke Cancer Institute. His research interests are development of devices for low-resource settings as well as leadership and professional development. Specifically, Dr. Lee has had more than a decade of research collaborations in Vietnam and Duke - National University of Singapore.
Publications
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Devinney MJ, Spector AR, Wright MC, Thomas J, Avasarala P, Moretti E, et al. The Role of Sleep Apnea in Postoperative Neurocognitive Disorders Among Older Noncardiac Surgery Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study. Anesth Analg. 2025 Jan 1;140(1):99–109.Li JQ, Atta S, Zhao Y, Hoang K, Canning A, Strobbia P, et al. Plasmonics-enhanced spikey nanorattle-based biosensor for direct SERS detection of mRNA cancer biomarkers. Anal Bioanal Chem. 2024 Dec;416(30):7347–55.Watts TL, Gonzalez K, Shen X, Rogers L, Osazuwa-Peters N, Jefferson GD, et al. Abstract PR004: Differential gene expression analysis comparing Black and White patients with HPV-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma reveals suppressed immune response and higher rates P16/HPV DNA discordance in Black patients. In: Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. American Association for Cancer Research (AACR); 2024. p. PR004–PR004.NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery, STARSurg Collaborative. A prognostic model for use before elective surgery to estimate the risk of postoperative pulmonary complications (GSU-Pulmonary Score): a development and validation study in three international cohorts. The Lancet Digital health. 2024 Jul;6(7):e507–19.
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