Assistant Professor of Surgery

Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
Duke University School of Medicine
Duke Hospital South, 3rd Floor Blue Zone, Room 3532
Durham, NC 27710
https://headnecksurgery.duke.edu/faculty/janet-w-lee-md

Biosketch:

Dr. Lee grew up in Portland, OR and attended the University of Pennsylvania for her undergraduate education. She became a Research Associate at the University of California San Francisco before moving on to her medical education at Duke University School of Medicine. During medical school, she took a one-year position at the National Institutes of Health – National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research as a Research Scholar with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She completed her residency training in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at University of California Davis in 2018. She completed a Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship at the University of Utah. Her clinical and research interests include pediatric chronic ear disease, the management of pediatric dysphagia, laryngeal reinnervation, and otologic care in children with cleft palate.

No conflicts of interest (07/08/2022).

Selected Bibliography:

Lee JW, Bon-Mardion N, Smith ME, Marie JP.
Bilateral Selective Laryngeal Reinnervation for Bilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis in Children.
JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2020. PubMed abstract

Funamura JL, Lee JW, McKinney S, Bayoumi AG, Senders CW, Tollefson TT.
Children with Cleft Palate: Predictors of Otologic Issues in the First 10 Years.
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2019;160(5):902-910. PubMed abstract

Lee JW, Randall DR, Evangelista LM, Kuhn MA, Belafsky PC.
Subjective Assessment of Videofluoroscopic Swallow Studies.
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2017;156(5):901-905. PubMed abstract

Lee JW, Funamura JL.
Third branchial cleft anomalies.
Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. 2017;28(3):161-166. / Full Text

Zim S, Lee J, Rubinstein B, Senders C.
Prevalence of Renal and Cervical Vertebral Anomalies in Patients With Isolated Microtia and/or Aural Atresia.
Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 2017;54(6):664-667. PubMed abstract