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Dennis Lee, PhD

Schaeffer Postdoctoral Researcher, USC/UCLA AHRQ

Biography

Dennis Lee is an AHRQ T-32 postdoctoral research fellow affiliated with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics.

His research interests are on the healthcare delivery of treatments for substance use disorders, primarily using quasi-experimental research designs. Some of his recent work include delineating the effects of pharmacy acquisitions on buprenorphine dispensing, analyzing the relationship between social determinants of health and opioid-related outcomes, measuring access to treatment for adolescents with mental health and substance use disorders, and modeling the spread of buprenorphine adoption through network analytic models.

Dennis received his PhD in Health Policy and Health Services Research at Vanderbilt University and his BA in Economics and Statistics at UC Berkeley.