Jay W. Lee, MD, MPH, FAAFP, is a dynamic physician executive with nearly two decades of experience leading and innovating in family medicine and primary care delivery systems. Dr. Lee currently serves as medical director of Integrated Health Partners of Southern California (IHP SoCal), a clinically integrated network (CIN) serving 355,000+ mostly Medicaid patients whose medical home is one of nine member health centers in three counties, mostly San Diego.
After graduating from the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University, Jay worked for a non-governmental organization in post-war rural northern El Salvador supporting local physicians, organizing public health projects, and growing his hair long before returning stateside for medical school at the University of Southern California and family medicine residency training at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. He then worked at community health centers in southern California and Boston, where he earned his Masters of Public Health at Harvard University with an emphasis in Health Policy and Management.
Dr. Lee is board-certified in family medicine and is active in physician leadership, currently serving a 3-year term on the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) board of directors and is a past president of the California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP). Early in his career, Dr. Lee co-founded the Family Medicine Revolution hashtag (#FMRevolution), a grassroots social media movement giving the power of telling family medicine’s stories back to family physicians and building a global community of thought leaders. He was recognized as CAFP’s Hero of Family Medicine in 2018 and as Family Physician of the Year in 2021. Though he has yet to don a cape, he can often be found wearing his white coat for legislative visits in Sacramento and DC.
