Kenneth M. Lee

Kenneth Lee is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics (DBEI) at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his faculty appointment, he was a postdoctoral researcher at DBEI, mentored by Dr. Michael Harhay, Dr. Katherine Courtright, and Dr. Fan Li (Yale). He received his PhD in Biostatistics from Duke-NUS Medical School and specializes in the design and statistical analysis of cluster randomized trials and self-controlled case series.

At Penn, Dr. Lee is developing novel statistical methods for analyzing palliative care outcomes and continues to lead work on methods for time-varying treatment effects, informative sizes, and unmeasured confounding in various cluster randomized trial designs. He also serves as a core instructor for the Pragmatic Clinical Research Institute.

Dr. Lee is a recipient of the FDA-OCE-ASA Oncology Educational Fellowship and was a finalist for the Royal Statistical Society 2023 Statistical Excellence Award for Early-Career Writing.