Medical Director for Quality and Safety, Director for Global Services, Johns Hopkins Medicine International; Assistant Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

As the medical director for quality and safety for Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHMI) and a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist, Judy Lee oversees and implements strategies to ensure that the highest possible standards of quality and safety are met for patients receiving care in JHMI’s global network.

In addition, Dr. Lee serves as the regional director for the Middle East and North Africa in JHMI’s global services division. In this role, she leads business development initiatives and focuses on creating sustainable and innovative collaborations to improve the quality and delivery of health care.

Dr. Lee has been on faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics (Gyn/Ob) since 2000, after finishing a Gyn/Ob residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In addition to her clinical practice in benign gynecologic disease, she had numerous roles in the department, including assistant residency program director, medical director of the Gyn/Ob clinics in the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center, and other administrative responsibilities and functions. She also served under JHMI as the chief medical officer for Corniche Hospital, the largest maternity hospital in the United Arab Emirates, from 2009 to 2013.

From 2017 until her return to Johns Hopkins in early January 2023, Dr. Lee was the deputy chief medical officer in the Corporate Medical and Clinical Affairs Division of Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA). SEHA is the United Arab Emirates’ largest health care network, with 17,000 employees, 12 hospitals, more than 60 ambulatory care clinics and 2,500-plus beds. During these six years, her responsibilities ranged from quality and risk management oversight as a chief quality officer and chair of the SEHA Sentinel Event Committee to clinical governance, medical affairs, medical education and hospital commissioning.

Honors that Dr. Lee has received include teaching awards from Johns Hopkins residents and medical students, inclusion in Baltimore magazine’s Top Doctors issue, and recognition as the SEHA Chief Medical Officer of the Year, valedictorian of her M.B.A. class and administrative chief during her residency.

She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University, followed by an M.D.-M.P.H. degree from the Tufts University School of Medicine and a master’s degree in business administration from the New York University Stern School of Business.