Thomas K. Lee, MD

  • Associate Professor of Surgery
  • Chief, Pediatric Surgery Division
  • President, Medical Board, University Hospital

Board Certifications

Training

Medical School
  • University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (1988)
Residency Training
  • General Surgery, New York Hospital–Cornell University Medical Center
Fellowship Training
  • Pediatric Surgery, St. Louis University Health Sciences Center

Affiliated Specialty Center

Clinical Interests/Expertise

  • Pediatric advanced minimal access surgery (laparoscopy and thoracoscopy)
  • Surgical management of congenital and acquired anomalies/disease of the neck, chest (airway, chest wall, lungs, esophagus), abdomen (biliary disease, liver, spleen, gastrointestinal tract, anorectum), and soft tissues in children (newborn to adolescents)
  • Surgical management of childhood tumors (including kidney and adrenal glands)
  • Repair of inguinal hernias, undescended testes
  • Surgical consultation for trauma
Thomas K. Lee, MD

Contact Information

Division of Pediatric Surgery
Department of Surgery, Health Sciences Center T19-090
Stony Brook Medicine
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8191
Tel: 631-444-2045
Fax: 631-444-8824

Practice Locations

Surgical Care Center
37 Research Way
East Setauket, NY 11733-3465
Tel: 631-444-4545
Fax: 631-444-4539


  • Personal Statement
  • Honors
  • Publications
  • Additional

Pediatric surgeons at Stony Brook Children's Hospital utilize the most advanced technology to perform a wide range of diagnostics and treatments of congenital and acquired conditions in infants, children, and adolescents. As pediatric specialists, we provide our surgical expertise in an environment that supports children and families both medically and emotionally.

  • Selected for inclusion in the "Best Doctors" listing of New York Magazine (June 16, 2008), representing the top 2% of physicians in the New York Metropolitan area
  • Selected for inclusion in the Castle Connolly Guide, Top Doctors: New York Metro Area (2007, 2009, 2010), representing the top 10% of physicians in the New York Metropolitan area
  • Selected for inclusion in Guide to America's Top Surgeons (2007) published by the Consumers' Research Council of America
  • Aygun B, Kimpo M, Lee T, Valderrama E, Leonides J, Karayalcin G. An adolescent with ovarian osteosarcoma arising in a cystic teratoma, J Pediatr Hematol/Oncol 2003:25: 410-3.
  • Azu MC, McCormack JE, Huang EC, Lee TK, Shapiro MJ. Venous thromboembolic events in hospitalized trauma patients. Am Surg 2007;73:1228-31.
  • Azu MC, McCormack JE, Scriven RJ, Brebbia JS, Shapiro MJ, Lee TK. Venous thromboembolic events in pediatric trauma patients: is prophylaxis necessary? J Trauma 2005;59:1345-9.
  • Blumer SL, Zucconi WB, Cohen HL, Scriven RJ, Lee TK. The vomiting neonate: a review of the ACR appropriateness criteria and ultrasound's role in the workup of such patients. Ultrasound Q 2004;20:79-89.
  • Fenton KE, Sloniewsky DE, Taira BR, McCormack JE, Huang E, Lee TK, Shapiro MJ.  Characteristics of pediatric trauma patients undergoing tracheostomy. Crit Care Med 2008:36(12 Suppl): A52.
  • Iofel E, Kahn E, Lee TK, Chawla A. Inflammatory polyps after necrotizing enterocolitis. J Pediatr Surg 2000;35:1246-7.
  • Kokkosis AA, Balsam D, Lee TK, Schreiber ZJ. Pediatric nontraumatic myositis ossificans of the neck. Pediatr Radiol 2009;39:409-12.
  • Langrehr JM, Demetris AJ, Banner B, Muller AR, Thalmann U, Lee TK, Lee KK, Schraut WH. Mucosal recipient-type mononuclear repopulation and low-grade chronic rejection occur simultaneously in indefinitely surviving recipients of small bowel allografts. Transplant Int 1994;7:71-8.
  • Lee KK, Langrehr JM, Stangl MJ, Banner B, Lee TK, Muller A, Schraut WH. Successful treatment of ongoing intestinal allograft rejection permits recovery of graft structure and function. Am J Surg 1993;165:131-6.
  • Lee TK, Heeckt PF, Smith SD, Lee KK, Rowe MI, Schraut WH. Bacterial translocation and the role of postoperative selective bowel decontamination in small intestinal transplantation. Transplant Proc 1994;26:1688.
  • Lee TK, Heeckt P, Smith SD, Lee KK, Rowe MI, Schraut WH. Postoperative selective bowel decontamination prevents gram-negative bacterial translocation in small-bowel graft recipients. J Surg Res 1995;58:496-502.
  • Medich DS, Lee TK, Melhem MF, Rowe MI, Schraut WH, Lee KK. Pathogenesis of pancreatic sepsis. Am J Surg 1993;165:46-52.
  • Muller AR, Langrehr JM, Nalesnik M, Hoffman RA, Lee TK, Lee KK, Schraut WH. Mucosal glutaminase activity and histology as parameters of small bowel preservation injury. J Surg Res 1994;56:207-15.
  • Rosen NG, Gibbs DL, Soffer SZ, Valderrama E, Lee TK. Uroepithelium in a colonic diverticulum. J Pediatr Surg 2000;35:1375-6.
  • Rutigliano D, Egnor MR, Priebe CJ, McCormack JE, Strong N, Scriven RJ, Lee TK. Decompressive craniectomy in pediatric patients with traumatic brain injury with intractable elevated intracranial pressure. J Pediatr Surg 2006;41:83-7.
  • Sharieff KA, Lee T. Intrauterine perforation of Meckel's diverticulum in a premature infant with trisomy 18. Surg Rounds 2000;470-6.
  • Taira BR, Fenton KE, Lee TK, Meng H, McCormack JE, Huang E, Singer AJ, Scriven RJ, Shapiro MJ. Ventilator-associated pneumonia in pediatric trauma patients. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2009;10:491-4.
  • Fellow, American College of Surgeons (FACS)
  • Surgery Specialty Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Member, American Pediatric Surgical Association
  • Associate member, Children's Oncology Group