Dr. Mark Lee is Professor and Vice Chair for Administration in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. He’s the Chief of the Orthopaedic Trauma Service. He is Medical Director of Perioperative services for UCD Health. He is President of AO North America. His clinical specialty focus is orthopaedic trauma, especially lower extremity trauma, and he oversees a national and regional referral practice for complex nonunions and malunions. He is a longtime member of the AOTK (AOTC) Lower Extremity Expert Groups and is currently a member of the Intramedullary Nail Expert Group (INEG) and Distal Femur Task Force and a member to the AOTC Trauma board which oversees all AO Trauma technical development groups.
He has an active research program that focuses on bone regeneration utilizing mesenchymal stem cells, especially for long bone defects, and on the interplay between biomechanics and fracture healing responses.
Dr. Lee has a special interest in graduate medical education. He is past Chairman of the Education Advisory Board for AO North America and a multi-term member of the international AO Foundation Residents Task Force. He served consecutive terms on the AOTNA Education committee. He is the Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship Director at UC Davis, and is the prior Chair of the Fellowship and Career Choices Committee of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA).