Kimberly J. Lee

Kimberly J. Lee, M.D. is a Head and Neck Surgeon at Ronald Reagan UCLA Hospital who was spotlighted in the media for operating on Allena Hansen, the woman who was mauled by a bear in Bakersfield and drove herself to seek help and was then airlifted to UCLA. Dr. Lee performed major surgical repair to Ms. Hansen's facial wounds, which were described as the forehead hanging off to the side with a visible indentation of the bear's claw in the bone. [http://cbs2.com/local/Allena.Hansen.Bear.2.782182.html] [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=5468292] [http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/state&id=6302040] [http://www.insideedition.com/storyprint.aspx?SpecialReportID=2097]

Born in Mountain View, California, Dr. Lee was raised in the Bay Area and graduated as valedictorian from Lynbrook High School in San Jose. She graduated from Stanford University in 1997 where she majored in biological sciences and won the prestigious Dinkelspiel Award for her "intellectual organizational and leadership skills." [http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/1997/june18/dinkenspiel.html] She then went on to graduate from Stanford Medical School before moving to Los Angeles for her residency where she serves as chief resident. [http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-headlines-september-12-2008-62824.aspx]

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