Dermatology

Professor of Dermatology and Medicine

Chief of Dermatology Denver Health Medical Center

Director of the American Board of Dermatology

Past president of the Medical Dermatology Society

E-mail: lela.lee@dhha.org

Clinical interests:

Her major clinical interests are cutaneous lupus and neonatal lupus.

Research interests:

Her research focus has been autoimmunity particularly lupus-related autoimmune responses.

Selected publications:

Lee LA, Sokol RJ, Buyon JP: Hepatobiliary disease in neonatal lupus : Prevalence and clinical characteristics in cases enrolled in a national registry. Pediatrics 109:E11, 2002

Lee LA: Lupus erythematosus. In Dermatology. JL Bolognia, JL Jorizzo, RP Rapini, eds. Mosby, London. 2003. pp. 601-613

Martin V, Lee LA, Katholi M, Buyon JP: Long term follow-up of children with neonatal lupus and their unaffected siblings. Arthritis Rheum 46(9):2377-83, 2002.

Burch JM, Sokol RJ, Markewicz MR, Reichlin M, Frank MB, MacKenzie T, Marchbank A, Lee LA: Autoantibodies in mothers of children with neonatal liver disease. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutrition 37(3):262-7, 2003

Lee LA: Transient autoimmunity related to maternal autoantibodies: neonatal lupus. Autoimmunity Rev 4(4):207-13, 2005. Epub 2004 Dec