After receiving his BA degree at the University of Rochester, Dr. Lee went on to receive his MA in Physiology and his MD at the State University of New York at Buffalo. While there, Dr. Lee served as a hyperbaric physiology research diver and as a Mission Support diver on the NOAA Project HYDROLAB saturation habitat (National Undersea Laboratory 1, NULS-1) in St. Croix, USVI.

After medical school, Dr Lee completed his residency in Orthopedic Surgery with further Fellowship training in Hand and Upper Extremity Microsurgery at SUNY/Buffalo. He was Attending Surgeon with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care from 1990-1999, and has served as Clinical Assistant Professor at the Brown University School of Medicine since 2000.