Education

PhD in Health Services Organization and Policy, University of Michigan, 1997
MS in Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, 1988
BS in Zoology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 1984

Faculty Bio

Dr. Lee is a health services researcher with disciplinary background in organizational and medical sociology. The goal of his research is to improve health care delivery through critical examination of factors that drive organizational as well as individual decisions and behaviors. This goal has brought him to focus on a number of pressing issues in health care management and health policy, including hospital closure and merger, mal-distribution of physicians, service integration in substance abuse treatment, social inequalities in health care access and utilization, health literacy and social support, and, more recently, organizational transformation and implementation of evidence-based practices. Dr. Lee’s work has appeared in major health services research and management journals. He has received recognitions from several regional and national associations, notably the Best Pre- and Post-Doctoral Presentation Award from the Association for Health Services Research in 1997, the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration in 2002, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research in 2008, and the Medical Care Research & Review Best Paper Award in 2009.

Publications (Most Recent)

• Shoou-Yih D. Lee, Jie Xiang, Abhijit V. Kshirsagar, Diane Steffick, Rajiv Saran, and Virginia Wang. Supply and distribution of vascular access physicians in the United States: A cross-sectional study. Accepted for publication at Kidney360.
• Chris Combe, P. Paul Chandanabhumma, Prachi Bhardwaj, Barbara L. Brush, Ella Greene-Moton, Megan Jensen, Laurie Lachance, Shoou-Yih D. Lee, Melanie Meisenheimer, Meredith Minkler, Michael Muhammad, Angela G. Reyes, Zachary Rowe, Eliza Wilson-Powers, Barbara A. Israel. A participatory, mixed methods approach to define and measure partnership synergy in long-standing, equity-focused CBPR partnerships. Accepted for publication at American Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12447
• Jordan Everson, Shoou-Yih D. Lee, Julia Adler-Milstein, and John Hollingsworth. Dispersion in the hospital network of shared patients is associated with less efficient care. Accepted for publication at HCMR.
• Caroline E. Sloan, Cynthia J. Coffman, Linda L. Sanders, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Shoou-Yih D. Lee, Richard A. Hirth, and Virginia Wang. Trends in regional supply of peritoneal dialysis in an era of health reform, 2006-2013. Medicare Care Research & Review. doi: 10.1177/1077558720910633. [Epub ahead of print]
• Barbara A. Israel, Laurie Lachance, Chris M. Coombe, Shoou-Yih D. Lee, Megan Jensen, Eliza Wilson-Powers, Graciela Mentz, Michael Muhammad, Zackary Rowe, Angela G. Beyes, and Barbara L. Brush. Measurement approaches to partnership success: Theory and methods for measuring success in long-standing CBPR partnerships. Journal of Progress in Community Health Partnerships 2020; 14 (1): 129-140.
• Caroline E. Sloan, Cynthia J. Coffman, Linda L. Sanders, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Shoou-Yih D. Lee, Richard A. Hirth, and Virginia Wang. Trends in peritoneal dialysis use in the United States after Medicare payment reform. Clinical Journal of American Society of Nephrology 2019; 14 (1) https://cjasn.asnjournals.org/content/clinjasn/early/2019/11/20/CJN.05910519.full.pdf
• Kira I. Hower, Timo-Kolja Pfortner, Holger Pfaff, Shoou-Yih D. Lee, and Lena Ansmann. Child-oriented Drug Counseling in Germany: Evaluating the implementation of the program “Fitkids” and its association with readiness for change. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance 2019; 43 (5): 421-442. https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2019.1661929
• Sz-Ching Lin, I-Ju Chen, Wen-Ry Yu, Shoou-Yih D. Lee, and Tzu-I Tsai. Effect of a community-based participatory health literacy program on health behaviors and health empowerment among community-dwelling older adults: A quasi-experimental study. Geriatric Nursing 2019 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2019.03.013
• Paula H. Song, Shoou-Yih D. Lee, Matthew Toth, Gary Young, and Simone Singh. Gender differences in hospital CEO compensation: A national investigation of not-for-profit hospitals. Medical Care Research and Review 2019; 76 (6): 830-846.
• Abhijit V. Kshirsagar, Amir Alishahitabriz*, Heejung Bang, and Shoou-Yih D. Lee. Patient satisfaction associates with dialysis facility quality and star ratings. American Journal of Medical Quality 2019; 34 (3): 243-250. doi: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1062860618796310