Kathleen Lee

Kathleen Lee is the associate chief transformation officer and associate vice president at Penn Medicine and an associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. Within the Center for Health Care Transformation and Innovation, she leads an interdisciplinary team accountable for new care models and technology-forward care-augmentation platforms that deliver measurable, enterprise-wide impact, applying a systems engineering approach to health care transformation.

Kathleen received her bachelor's degree in engineering from Princeton University and her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University. 

Previously, she served as senior director of medical and strategic initiatives (MSI) at Comcast NBCUniversal, where she led population health–based clinical strategy and innovation. Before Comcast NBCUniversal, Kathleen spent seven years at Penn Medicine as a clinical innovation manager at the Center for Digital Health and then director of clinical implementation at the Center for Health Care Innovation, where she led high-impact programs that scaled across the health system, to local communities, and to other institutions, including foundational work during the COVID-19 pandemic spanning testing, equity-centered vaccination, and remote monitoring. Prior to that, she served as senior director of community engagement for Thread, a Baltimore-based organization that harnesses the power of relationships to weave a new social fabric of diverse individuals deeply engaged with young people facing the most significant opportunity and achievement gaps.

Kathleen served as an inaugural associate editor for NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery through 2024. Her work has been published in Harvard Business Review, the New England Journal of Medicine, and other medical journals.