Deanna / Dee Glass-Macenka, CRNP

Ta-Ya Lee, D.N.P., D.A.O.M., Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., C.R.N.P., Dip.OM, LAc, is an internal medicine provider for Johns Hopkins Medicine Primary VirtualCare. She has practiced primary care for more than 25 years, and speaks Mandarin and Taiwanese. N.P. Lee is also a licensed acupuncturist with a Ph.D. in acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. She practices patient-centered care in the traditions of both Eastern and Western Medicine. She enjoys practicing internal medicine with an interest in non-pharmacological intervention to support conventional therapy. N.P. Lee is from Taiwan, Republic of China. In her free time, she enjoys cross-stitch, water aerobics, playing piano and traveling.

Alexandra (Aly) Strauss is a transplant hepatologist who treats patients with acute and chronic liver disease, such as cirrhosis and liver cancer. Dr. Strauss completed medical school at the University of South Florida (USF), where she continued for internal medicine residency training and served as chief resident. She then went to The Johns Hopkins University for fellowship training in gastroenterology, followed by a fellowship in transplant hepatology. Her research training began when she completed a master’s degree in industrial/systems engineering at USF. Later, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, she earned her Ph.D. in clinical investigation. Dr. Strauss’s research focus is on the use of systems engineering and data science to improve access to liver transplantation. She serves as core faculty in the Johns Hopkins University Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare and is a faculty member in the Center for Data Science in Emergency Medicine.