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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Fine J, Kahmke R, Watts T, Rocke D, Puscas L, Kuchibhatla M, et al. Comparison of ENLYT®, a Portable Flexible Nasopharyngoscope, with the Standard of Care Nasopharyngoscope. Surg Innov. 2025 Dec;32(6):545–50.Lam SWS, Lee MH, Dorosan M, Altonji S, Tan HK, Lee WT. Use of a Preliminary Artificial Intelligence-Based Laryngeal Cancer Screening Framework for Low-Resource Settings: Development and Validation Study. JMIR Form Res. 2025 Oct 7;9:e66110.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.Lee MH, Lam SSW, Liew SXH, Dorosan M, Graves N, Karlström J, et al. AI-Assisted Triage and Decision Support of Head and Neck Cancer Screening and Diagnosis in Low-Resourced Settings. In: Ijcai International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2025. p. 9781–9.
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