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Prof. Bernard Travis Lee (李伯寧教授)

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Prof. Bernard Travis Lee (李伯寧教授)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Prof. Bernard Travis Lee
  • Chinese: 李伯寧教授
  • Era: 1971
  • Geography: Austin/Texas
  • Core roles: physician, professor
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Prof. Bernard Travis Lee 李伯寧教授 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心

Education

  • Tufts Univ. — M.D.
  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine — M.D.

Employment

  • Harvard Medical School — Chief, Division of Plastic and Constructive Surgery — Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School — Chief, Division of Plastic and Constructive Surgery — (2014-) — Harvard Alumni Association — Appointed Graduate School Director, Board of Directors — (2017-2020) — Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Alumni Association — Deputy Chair, Awards Committee — Harvard Plastic Surgery Residency Training Program — Chair, Plastic Surgery Executive Committee — Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery — Editor-in-Chief — (2013-) — Archives of Plastic Surgery — Editorial Board Member — (2017-)

Family

  • Wife: 李必寧
  • Son: 李博德
  • Father: |Dr. Ching-Tse Lee 李清澤博士 — his father’s TAH profiles are held in the vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/167-dr-ching-tse-lee||TAH #167 Dr. Ching-Tse Lee 李清澤博士]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/artist18-ching-tse-lee||TAH #18 李清澤 Ching-Tse Lee (2014-10)]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/footsteps-32||TAH #32 Dr. Ching-Tse Lee 李清澤博士 (by 林榮峰 Emily Lee, 2020-09)]]
  • Mother: |李林榮峰 — the artist 林榮峰 / Emily Lee, who authored his TAH encyclopedia entry #33

Archival & Editorial Career

  • Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School (2014–).
  • Harvard Alumni Association — Appointed Graduate School Director, Board of Directors (2017–2020).
  • Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Alumni Association — Deputy Chair, Awards Committee.
  • Chair, Plastic Surgery Executive Committee, Harvard Plastic Surgery Residency Training Program.
  • Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery (2013–); Editorial Board, Archives of Plastic Surgery (2017–).

Notes

  • Born 1971 in Austin, Texas; medical degrees from Tufts Univ. and Albert Einstein College of Medicine (per his TAH tables).
  • His TAH #33 entry (2020-09) is unusual in the corpus: it was authored by his mother, the artist 林榮峰 / Emily Lee — see |李林榮峰.
  • His TAH presence spans three encyclopedia records: #33 (footsteps series), #285 (OTA series), and #592 (Who’s Who series); all three are held in the vault above.

Sources

Connected in the Vault

  • His three TAH encyclopedia profiles are held in the vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/footsteps-33||TAH #33 (by 林榮峰 Emily Lee, 2020-09)]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ota-285||TAH #285]], and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-592||TAH #592]].
  • His mother Emily Lin Lee has her own vault record: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos564-emily-lin-lee||TAH #564 — Emily Lin Lee 林榮峰 (2015-08)]].

Vault deepening note (slice 09140107-9, 2026-09-14, vault-only)

  • Absorbed only what the vault already holds: the father’s own person page dr-ching-tse-lee is now linked directly (previously only his three TAH work pages were), and his Harvard/Tufts institution years are cross-linked to the existing campus-org pages. No new biographical facts invented; the three cited TAH records (#33/#285/#592) remain bibliographic stubs in the vault, so no further text could be absorbed. Status: pending-verification.

Role in the Community (corpus-absorbed, slice 10091400-14, 2026-10-10)

  • In the corpus’s overview of the physician community, 291. 台美人醫師 overview (黃哲陽, 2017-05) names him as one of only two exemplars of the second-generation Taiwanese American physician cohort — alongside Chi-Cheng Huang (Kaya International, Bolivia) — singled out for his plastic-surgery skill “尤其 microsurgery，是世界一流” and for having recently been recruited to a faculty post at Harvard Medical School. The passage frames this generation as the successor to the first-generation physician cohort then nearing retirement, including via NATMA chapter boards largely taken over by the second generation.
  • That framing is a direct continuation of the family line already on this page: as the son of Dr. Ching-Tse Lee 李清澤博士, he is cited as the corpus’s example of 克紹其裘 (the first-generation physicians’ hope that a child would carry on the trade) — see the same overview passage.
  • He is also the sole subject of a dedicated profile in the corpus: 288. 李伯寧醫師的故事 (施長要, 2015-06), which 黃哲陽’s overview cites as the source for the “world-class microsurgery” claim above.
  • No conflicts found between the corpus passages and the existing biographical text; nothing held.

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