U.S. National Institutes of Health

Elizabeth Theresa Lee-Rey, MD — education (teaching), general medicine (family)

Courtesy Elizabeth Theresa Lee-Ray, MD

Dr. Elizabeth Lee-Rey (b. 1960) feels that one of her greatest accomplishments is that “I was able to become a mother and nurse my children while working successfully as a physician. I advocate the benefits of nursing to my new moms, yet my greatest challenges against doing so were [from] peers and colleagues.” In 2002, she was named co-director of New York’s Hispanic Center of Excellence at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She also has worked to establish a self-sustaining peer-run network aimed at the Hispanic adolescent male, to promote health and prevent disease with community-based support.

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