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David Lee, MD completes remarkable 7,000th robot-assisted prostatectomy

David Lee, MD, recently completed his remarkable 7,000th robot-assisted prostatectomy in two decades of practice.

David Lee, MD

Lee is the director of the UCI Health Comprehensive Prostate Cancer Program and a nationally regarded leader in minimally invasive robot-assisted prostatectomies.

He received fellowship training in endourology at the UCI Medical Center, with an emphasis on laparoscopy, endoscopy, image-guided therapy and robot-assisted surgery, a then-new technology embraced by the UCI School of Medicine’s Department of Urology under the leadership of former-chair Ralph Clayman, M.D. a pioneer himself in minimally invasive surgical techniques.

Prior to returning to UCI Health, Lee served as chief of urology services at Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System, and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, where he built its robot-assisted prostatectomy program.

Lee is the author or co-author of more than 200 published articles, abstracts and book chapters in the field of minimally invasive urologic surgery. He has also given numerous lectures on urologic health topics. Congratulations to Dr. Lee on this achievement!