Christopher Lee, MD
Christopher M. Lee, MD is a member of Silver Hill’s adult inpatient psychiatric team. In this role. Dr. Lee will provide direct clinical care to patients admitted for acute psychiatric treatment, working alongside Silver Hill’s interdisciplinary team of nurses, social workers, and psychologists.
“Acute inpatient psychiatry demands sound clinical judgment and the ability to build trust with patients at a critical point in their recovery,” said Mark Russ, MD, Chief Clinical Officer of Silver Hill Hospital. “Dr. Lee brings these strengths, along with a passion for teaching and mentorship that will benefit our entire clinical team.”
Dr. Lee Joins Silver Hill having completed his residency in general adult psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Sheppard Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, where he received the Excellence in Teaching Award and the Whitney Holland Rose Memorial Award for Cultural Psychiatry. He served as Chief Resident in the program. Dr. Lee is also a published researcher with seven peer-reviewed journal articles, including publications in Schizophrenia Research, the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, and Neurology.
Lee earned his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society, and his bachelor’s degree in English, cum laude, from Williams College. At UMass, Lee co-founded a COVID-19 vaccination training program that prepared more than 300 student vaccinators in partnership with the City of Worcester’s Department of Public Health. Prior to medical school, he worked as a research coordinator on the Harvard Aging Brain Study at Massachusetts General Hospital and taught high school biology at Loomis Chaffee Preparatory School.