Forrester Ashe Lee MD
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology); Assistant Dean for Multicultural Affairs
Departments & Organizations
Yale Medical Group: Heart & Vascular Center, Yale-New Haven HospitalMedical Education Staff: Multicultral Affairs
Internal Medicine: Cardiology: Clinical Cardiology (Outpatient); Cardiology/Heart Failure and Transplant
Yale Center for Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Heart Transplantation
Research Interests
Congestive heart treatment; heart rate variability; Minority population cardiovascular health care access
Clinical Interests
Clinical cardiology; heart failure/cardiac transplantation
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Education
- M.D., Yale University , 1979
Selected Publication
- Su S, Lampert R, Zhao J, Bremner JD, Miller A, Snieder H, Lee F, Khan D, Goldberg J, Vaccarino V., Pleiotropy of C-reactive protein gene polymorphisms with C-reactive protein levels and heart rate variability in healthy male twins. Am J Cardiol. 2009 Dec 15;104(12):1748-54.
Articles
Spring 2008
Actress-writer returns to New Haven with a drama about the resilience of the human body
About eight years ago, Asghar Rastegar, M.D., deputy chair of internal medicine and professor of internal medicine...
Winter/Spring 1998
Liza Cariago-Lo, M.S., Ed.D.
Liza Cariago-Lo, M.S., Ed.D., has been named director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs and will work under the...
Winter 2004
An insider’s view
It’s nearly 1 a.m. on Sunday morning of the July 4 weekend, and the constellation of examination cubicles and work...
Winter 2003
Long road to Cedar Street
You might say Karen Sarena Morris’ cover was blown at the White Jacket Ceremony. As young as she looks, the first-year...
Spring 2001
A dramatic turn
The playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith stands in the well of Fitkin Amphitheater musing about how patients and...
Autumn 2007
Reunion 2007
Reunion 2007 opened on June 1 with the traditional reception and clambake—but in a departure from past years, the...
Spring 2011
First African American women graduates, faculty honored
The night before the start of Reunion 2011, the School of Medicine honored its first African-American women graduates...
Spring 2013
Seeing the unsung people “who care for us”
Anyone who’s taken the Yale Shuttle to the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven has likely crossed paths with...
Spring 1999
On Martin Luther King Day, an affirmation of ideals
In song, speeches and verse, students and faculty at the medical school honored the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life...
Spring 2012
99 Yale students in 2012 Match
The 2012 Match was the largest in history—38,000 applicants sought to match in 26,772 slots around the...
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