Jennifer Lee-Summers, MD
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Jennifer Lee-Summers
Professional Titles
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Office of Faculty
Primary Academic Title
Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins Physician
Background
Dr. Jennifer Lee is the Senior Associate Dean for Women in Science and Medicine in the Office of Faculty and a Professor of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics.
She works clinically, and her research is focused on reducing the risk of permanent neurologic injury in babies and children who experience birth injury or cardiac arrest. Dr. Lee has led translational research on cerebrovascular blood pressure autoregulation, the effects of hypothermia and rewarming, cell death mechanisms, proteostasis, and white matter injury in clinical and laboratory studies. Her research has been funded by the NIH and several foundations, including the American Heart Association, International Anesthesia Research Society, and the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research.
Dr. Lee received her undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Colorado – Boulder and her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed an internship and residency in pediatrics and a residency in anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins. She then did fellowships in pediatric anesthesiology and pediatric critical care medicine, both at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2010.
Centers and Institutes
Additional Academic Titles
Professor of Pediatrics
Lab Website
Jennifer Lee-Summers Lab
- Research in the Jennifer Lee-Summers Lab explores cerebrovascular autoregulation, particularly during anesthesia. Our previous studies have examined cerebrovascular autoregulation and blood flow in patients with hypothermia, in neonatal patients with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and in pediatric patients with moyamoya disease.
Selected Publications
Lee JK, Kibler KK, Benni PB, Easley RB, Czosnyka M, Smielewski P, Koehler RC, Shaffner DH, Brady KM. Cerebrovascular reactivity measured by near-infrared spectroscopy. Stroke 2009; 40(5): 1820-1826.
Lee JK, Poretti A, Perin J, Huisman TAGM, Parkinson C, Chavez-Valdez R, O’Connor M, Reyes M, Armstrong J, Jennings JM, Gilmore MM, Koehler RC, Northington FJ, Tekes A. Optimizing cerebral autoregulation may decrease neonatal regional hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. Dev Neurosci 2017; 39:248-256.
Lee JK, Williams M, Reyes M, Ahn ES. Cerebrovascular blood pressure autoregulation monitoring and postoperative transient ischemic attack in pediatric moyamoya vasculopathy. Paediatr Anaesth 2018; 28: 94-102.
Santos PT, O’Brien CE, Chen MW, Hopkins CD, Adams S, Kulikowicz E, Singh R, Koehler RC, Martin LJ, Lee JK. Proteasome biology is compromised in white matter after asphyxic cardiac arrest in neonatal piglets. J Am Heart Assoc 2018; 7: e009415.
Wang B, Armstrong JS, Reyes M, Kulikowicz E, Lee JH, Spicer D, Bhalala U, Yang ZJ, Koehler RC, Martin LJ, Lee JK. White matter apoptosis is increased by delayed hypothermia and rewarming in a neonatal piglet model of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. Neuroscience 2016; 316:296-310.
Honors
- 12th Annual ACCM Research Day Award Recipient, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, 1/1/10
- Young Investigator Award (2nd place), Society for Pediatric Anesthesia, 1/1/10
- Hospira Physician Scientist Award, Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research/American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists, 1/1/09
- 11th Annual ACCM Research Day Award Recipient, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, 1/1/09
- The W. Barry Wood Student Research Award, 1/1/02
- Henry Strong Dennison Research Award, 1/1/01
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
- Get Directions
- phone: 410-955-5000
- fax: 410-955-5001
Expertise
Education
- Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, 2009
- Residency: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, 2008
- Residency: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Pediatrics, 2005
- Medical Education: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD, 2002
Board Certifications
- Pediatric Anesthesiology: American Board of Anesthesiology, 2013
- Anesthesiology: American Board of Anesthesiology, 2009
Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)