Dr. Sylvia Lee is a medical oncologist who treats head and neck cancers, lung cancers and melanoma.

Dr. Lee studied comparative literature and molecular biology in college, then became a high school science teacher in the Teach For America program. She enrolled in medical school at the University of North Carolina and continued her training at the University of Washington, where she pursued an internal medicine residency.

She never expected to go into oncology, but during her intern year oncology rotation, she found the oncology patients to be among the most inspiring and rewarding patients she had ever worked with.