Department of Pediatrics

Education

• BA, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, 1995
• MD, University of Virginia School of Medicine, 1999

Training

• Residency in Pediatrics, University of Virginia Health System, 1999 - 2002
• Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, 2002 - 2003
• Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology, Children's National Medical Center, 2003 - 2005
• Leadership Development Training, Washington University School of Medicine, Dept of Pediatrics, 2015
• Academic Medical Leadership Program for Physicians & Scientists, Washington University School of Medicine, 2021 - 2021

Licensure and Board Certification

• 2000 - PresNational Board of Medical Examiners
• 2006 - PresDiplomate, American Board of Pediatrics and its Subboard of Pediatric Cardiology
• 2008 - PresIL, State of Illinois Division of Professional Regulation
• 2008 - PresMO, State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts

Honors and Awards

• Pediatric Clerkship Teaching Award, Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, 2005
• Competitively selected to attend the AAMC Early Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar, 2010
• "Best Lecturer of the Month," Pediatric Residency Noon Lecture Series, for "Acyanotic Congenital Heart Disease", 2013
• Castle Connolly "Best Doctors" Award/St. Louis Magazine, 2015 - Pres
• Competitively selected to attend AAMC Mid-Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar, 2015
• Distinguished Service Teaching Award, Washington University School of Medicine, 2016
• Unsung Hero Award, Department of Pediatrics, 2018
• Distinguished Service Teaching Award, Washington University School of Medicine, 2019
• Castle Connolly "Regional Top Doctor" Award/Missouri Life Magazine, 2021
• Honor Roll for the 2021/2022 Academic Year, Academy of Educators, Washington University School of Medicine, 2021
• Distinguished Service Teaching Award, Washington University School of Medicine, 2022

Recent Publications view all (14)

Publication Co-Authors

Gregory A. Storch, M.D.

Shawn O'Connor

Ina E. Amarillo, PhD FACMG ErCLG

Jennifer A Wambach, M.D.

Charles Canter, M.D.

Washington University has a long tradition of collaboration amongst colleagues.The faculty above have co-authored publications with Caroline K. Lee, M.D.

1. Dean Lorimer Jr, Rachel Spies, Riti Chokshi, Caroline K. Lee, Jamie N. Colombo. Common indications and impact on clinical management of overnight, inpatient transthoracic echocardiograms performed by pediatric cardiology fellows Progress in Pediatric Cardiology. 2022;(Online). doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppedcard.2022.101514  
2. Anita Krishnan, Marni B. Jacobs, Shaine A. Morris, Shabnam Peyvandi, Aarti H. Bhat, Anjali Chelliah, Joanne S. Chiu, Bettina F. Cuneo, Grace Freire, Lisa K. Hornberger, Lisa Howley, Nazia Husain, Catherine Ikemba, Ann Kavanaugh-McHugh, Shelby Kutty, Caroline Lee, Keila N. Lopez, Angela McBrien, Erik C. Michelfelder, Nelangi M. Pinto, Rachel Schwartz, Kenan W.D. Stern, Carolyn Taylor, Varsha Thakur, Wayne Tworetzky, Carol Wittlieb-Weber, Kris Woldu, Mary T. Donofrio. Impact of Socioeconomic Status, Race and Ethnicity, and Geography on Prenatal Detection of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and Transposition of the Great Arteries Circulation. 2021;143(21):2049-2060. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.053062  PMCID:PMC8162295  PMID:33993718 
3. Selamet Tierney ES, Hollenbeck-Pringle D, Lee CK, Altmann K, Dunbar-Masterson C, Golding F, Lu M, Miller SG, Molina K, Natarajan S, Taylor CL, Trachtenberg F, Colan SD; Pediatric Heart Network Investigators.. Reproducibility of Left Ventricular Dimension vs. Area vs. Volume Measurements in Pediatric Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging. 2017;10(11). doi:10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.116.006007  PMID:29133477 
4. Lee, Caroline K.. Prenatal Counseling of Fetal Congenital Heart Disease Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine. 2017. doi:10.1007/s11936-017-0502-1  
5. Amarillo IE, O'Connor S, Lee CK, Willing M, Wambach JA. De novo 9q gain in an infant with tetralogy of Fallot with absent pulmonary valve: Patient report and review of congenital heart disease in 9q duplication syndrome. Am J Med Genet A. 2015;167A(12):2966-74. PMID:26768185 
6. Philip T. Levy, Brittney Diodena, Mark R. Holland, Timothy J. Sekarski, Caroline K. Lee, Amit Mathur, W. Todd Cade, Alison G. Cahill, Aaron Hamvas, Gautam K. Singh. Right Ventricular Function in Preterm and Term Neonates: Reference Values for Right Ventricle Areas and Fractional Area of Change Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. 2015. 
7. Simpson KE, Storch GA, Lee CK, Ward KE, Danon S, Simon CM, Delaney JW, Tong A, Canter CE. High Frequency of Detection by PCR of Viral Nucleic Acid in the Blood of Infants Presenting with Clinical Myocarditis Pediatr Cardiol. 2015. doi:10.1007/s00246-015-1290-6  PMID:26499513 
8. Simpson KE, Cunningham MW, Lee CK, Ward K, Tong A, Danon S, Simon C, Delaney JW, Storch GA, Canter CE. Children with myocarditis and new onset dilated cardiomyopathy have evidence of autoimmunity and viremia at presentation Progress in Pediatric Cardiology. Cardiomyopathy Part 1 . 2014;37(1-2):39-40. 
9. Lee CK, Margossian R, Sleeper LA, Canter CE, Chen S, Tani LY, Shirali G, Szwast A, Tierney ES, Campbell MJ, Golding F, Wang Y, Altmann K, Colan SD, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators. Variability of M-mode versus two-dimensional echocardiography measurements in children with dilated cardiomyopathy. Pediatr Cardiol. 2013. doi:10.1007/s00246-013-0835-9  PMID:24265000 
10. Toib A, Goldstein SB, Khanna G, Canter CE, Lee CK, Balzer DT, Singh GK . Spontaneous echocardiographic contrast associated with portosystemic shunt due to persistent patent ductus venosus Congenit Heart Dis Congenital Heart Disease. 2012;7(3):E18-21. 
11. Simpson KE, Cibulka N, Lee CK, Huddleston CH, Canter CE. Failed Fontan heart transplant candidates with preserved vs impaired ventricular ejection: 2 distinct patient populations Journal Heart and Lung Transplant. 2012;31(5):545-547. 
12. Lee CK, Christensen LL, Magee JC, Ojo AO, Harmon WE, Bridges ND. Pre-transplant risk factors for chronic renal dysfunction after pediatric heart transplantation: a 10 year national cohort study J Heart and Lung Tranplant 2007; 26 458-65 . Pre-transplant risk factors for chronic renal dysfunction after pediatric heart transplantation: a 10 year national cohort study. Journal Heart and Lung Transplant. 2007;26:458-465. 
13. Goldfine AB, Bouche C, Parker RA, Kim C, Kerivan A, Soeldner JS, Martin BC, Warram JH, Kahn CR. Insulin resistance is a poor predictor of type 2 diabetes in individuals with no family history of disease. National Academy of Science. 2003;100(5):2724-2729. 
14. Anita Krishnan MD1, Marni Jacobs PhD1,2, Shaine Morris MD3, Shabnam Peyvandi MD4, Aarti Bhat MD5, Anjali Chelliah MD6, Joanne Chiu MD7,8, Bettina Cuneo MD9, Grace Freire MD10, Lisa K. Hornberger MD11, Lisa Howley MD9,12, Nazia Husain MD13, Catherine Ikemba MD14, Anne Kavanaugh-Mchugh MD15, Shelby Kutty MD PHD MHCM7,16, Caroline Lee MD17, Keila N Lopez MD 3, Angela McBrien MD11, Erik C Michelfelder MD18, Nelangi Pinto MD19, Rachel Schwartz MD1,20, Kenan Stern MD21,22, Carolyn Taylor MD23, Varsha Thakur MD24, Wayne Tworetzky MD20, Carol Wittlieb-Weber C MD25,26, Kris Woldu MD14,27, and Mary T. Donofrio MD1, on behalf of the Fetal Heart Society. The impact of socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, and geography on prenatal detection of hypoplastic left heart syndrome and transposition of the great arteries Circulation.