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Division of Infectious Diseases

Christine Lee

M.D., FRCPC

Education and Professional Standing

• F.R.C.P.C. (Microbiology) 2000
• Royal College Infectious Diseases Certification 2000
• F.R.C.P.C. (Internal Medicine) 1998
• M.D. University of Toronto 1994

Research Interests

Dr. Lee's current research interests include: optimal laboratory methods of diagnosis and treatment of Clostridium difficile–associated diarrhea; refining microbiologic diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases; and, diagnosis and management of nosocomial infections (intravenous catheter infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia). She is currently the Director of the Microbiology Residency Program at McMaster University, and is also a member of the Hamilton Infection Control Committee, and Infections Research Group at St. Joseph's Healthcare.

Selected Publications

1. Kim P, Lee CH. Concomitant Information in Bioassay and Semiparametric Estimation. Statistics in Medicine. Accepted for publication, September 2003.
2. Schwalm J, Lee C. Oral Levofloxacine-Associated Acute Hepatitis in a Hemodialysis Patient. CMAJ 2003;168(7):847-8.
3. Lee, C, Cunningham, C. Myocarditis related to Campylobacter jejuni Infection. BMC 2003;(3):16.
4. Chirikjian GS, Kim PT, Lee CH. Rotational matching and error bound calculations. In Proceedings of the 7th Joint Conference on Information Sciences. Durham, North Carolina September 2003, 904-8.
5. Lee C, Loeb M, Phillips A, Nesbitt J, Smith K, Fearon M, McArthur M, Mazzulli T, McGeer A. Zanamivir Use During an Emergence and Transmission of Amantadine Resistant Influenza A Outbreak In a Nursing Home. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 2000 Nov. 21(11)
6. Tarang N, Lee C, Keystone J. Reactivation of Neurocysticercosis . American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1999;60:4, 664-667.