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Christopher Sean Lee

Barry Family/Goldman Sachs Endowed Professorship in Nursing

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Cardiovascular nurse scientist Christopher S. Lee, Ph.D., RN, FAHA, FAAN, FHFSA, is the Barry Family/Goldman Sachs Endowed Professorship in Nursing at the Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing. Dr. Lee has dedicated his career to better understanding heart disease and improving long term outcomes for patients and their families. He is known for his expertise in heart failure self-care and symptom science and patient and care-partner dyadic research in chronic conditions, as well the application of advanced statistical methods. Dr. Lee’s research involving older adults with heart failure has been support by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Research on Women’s Health and the American Heart Association (AHA).

Dr. Lee’s research on older adults with heart failure has earned him multiple honors including the 2009 Martha Hill New Investigator Award, the 2013 Marie Cowan Promising New Investigator Award, the 2015 Atherosclerosis/Heart Failure Translational Research Prize, the 2020 Mathy Mezey Excellence in Aging Award, and the 2021 Kathleen Dracup Award for Exemplary Early Career Mentoring from the American Heart Association, as well as the 2014 Heart Failure Society of America Nursing Leadership Award, the 2016 Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research Protégé Award, a National Institute of Nursing Research Director’s Lecture in 2018, and induction into the Sigma Thea Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2024. Dr. Lee has published more than 250 papers and his work has been cited more than 20,000 times. Dr. Lee also prides himself of mentoring, and has been successful in helping multiple colleagues secures National Research Service Awards, Careers Development Grants and large Research Project Grants.