Teresa Lee

Teresa Lee is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is board certified in pediatrics, pediatric cardiology with advanced training in heart failure/transplantation, and clinical genetics. As a physician-scientist, her research is focused on identifying novel genetic causes of cardiomyopathy in children. Her current research focus under the National Heart Lung Blood Institute K23 Award and Children’s Cardiomyopathy Foundation Research Grant has been on infantile cardiomyopathy. She is also involved in the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Research and actively involved in its research efforts to understand the genetic causes of cardiomyopathy in the pediatric population.

In Paris, Lee will step away from the ICU to reflect on the profound intersection of life and death in pediatric heart transplantation, drawing inspiration from Maylis de Kerangal’s Réparer les vivants. She will use her residency to write an essay and produce a podcast that honors the anonymous children whose donated hearts give her patients a chance to live, acknowledging the gift and the loss behind every transplant.