About Jay Lee, M.D.

Jay S. Lee, M.D., is a health services research fellow at the University of Michigan Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy, and a General Surgery resident at the University of Michigan. He received his undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and his medical degree from the University of Michigan. Dr. Lee’s research focuses on characterizing variation in postoperative opioid prescribing and consumption, with a specific interest in opioid use after cancer surgery. His research is supported by a T32 training grant from the National Cancer Institute. After residency, he plans to complete a fellowship in Complex General Surgical Oncology, and pursue a career in academic surgery.

What You'll Learn

• Rates of deaths from opioid overdose in the U.S.
 
• How can insurance claims can be used to analyze opioid prescription trends?
 
• What are “pill drives” and how can they be used to collect excess opioids from the community?
 
• What is the role of opioid treatment for cancer patients?
 
• How do we identify red flags (warning signs) of prolonged opioid use?
 
• The perils of treating patients with a “one size fits all” approach to pain treatment
 
• How aggressive marketing by the pharmaceutical industry starting in the late 1990s contributed to an “explosion” in opioid prescription
 
• How an often-cited study contributed to a misconception that opioids were non-addictive