Roberta Lee, MD is Medical Director of the Center for Health and Healing, Director of Continuing Medical Education and Co-Director of the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at Beth Israel’s Continuum Center for Health and Healing (CCHH). In addition, she conducts a clinical practice in Internal and Integrative medicine at CCHH. The Center is a multi-disciplinary clinic which includes a mixture of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and Traditional Healers working together to provide integrative medical management with a special focus on the preventative aspects of health. She recently edited a text on integrative medicine, entitled Integrative Medicine: Principles for Practice, with her colleague Ben Kligler, MD, published by McGraw-Hill. 

Dr. Lee is an Honorary Research Associate at The New York Botanical Garden in the Institute of Economic Botany. For the last five years she has traveled back to Micronesia as the ethnomedical specialist in an interdisciplinary team of biologists, ethnobotanists, and ecologists.

Currently she is a regular contributing editor to EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and healing in a column entitled Notes from the Field, consulting editor for Herbclip a botanical news letter from the American Botanical Council and an Advisory Board Member for the American Botanical Council.