Philip R. Lee

Philip Randolph Lee (April 17, 1924 – October 27, 2020) was an American physician who served as the United States Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs under President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1969 and President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1998.

[1] The next oldest sibling, Dr. Peter Van Arsdale Lee Sr., became Dean at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.

He earned his accelerated bachelor degree with just 2+1⁄2 years of pre-med studies at Stanford University in 1945.

[4] Following service in the Navy, including a tour of duty in the Korean War, he also did postdoctoral education at the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at New York University Medical Center and University of Minnesota at the Mayo Clinic.

[5] He returned home to California, and joined the Palo Alto Clinic, where he worked as an internist.