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Breast Surgeon
Lee Moffitt
Marie Catherine Lee, MD FACS is a Senior Member in the Comprehensive Breast Program at Moffitt Cancer Center and Professor at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. She graduated magna cum laude from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio and completed her MD degree at the Northeast Ohio University College of Medicine in Rootstown, Ohio. After a general surgery residency at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, she completed the Susan G. Komen/University of Michigan Multidisciplinary Breast Fellowship in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is board-certified in General Surgery and joined the Moffitt Cancer Center’s Comprehensive Breast Program in 2008. She holds joint appointments in the Department of General Surgery as well as the Division of Interdisciplinary Oncology at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and an active member in the Society of Surgical Oncology and the Society of University Surgeons. In addition to her clinical interest in young and pregnant breast cancer patients, she is active in clinical research, clinical trials, and translational breast cancer research. Her translational breast cancer research is primarily focused on biomarker-driven targeting of primary breast cancers as well as axillary metastases. She is the recipient of NIH/NCI, Department of Defense, and private research funding. She has numerous publications in peer-reviewed medical journals and has presented her work regionally and nationally. She is married to an academic otolaryngologist and has two children.