Kate Elizabeth Lee, NP

The best part about being a plastic surgeon is the ability to help people. To restore their sense of self and wholeness; to give someone hope who otherwise felt hopeless; who is suffering from a complication from cancer or trauma or some other issue in their life, to be able to have a solution to try to fix that problem - that is incredibly rewarding.

I grew up in a small town in India. My father was a surgeon at an American mission hospital. I became fascinated with the heart at an early age. I think I saw my first open heart surgery as a child. As you grow up, going through medical school and residency, you get fascinated with the amount of technology and cardiac procedures and then as you start taking care of patients, you realize the impact it can make.