Ingi Lee, MD, MSCE
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
Assistant Director Transplant ID Program, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Attending Physician, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
ID Core 3 Elective Director, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Medicine
Contact information
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street
Silverstein Building, 3rd Floor Suite E
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3400 Spruce Street
Silverstein Building, 3rd Floor Suite E
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BS (Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry)
Yale University, 1997.
MD (Medicine)
Yale University School of Medicine, 2002.
MSCE (Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2008.
Permanent linkBS (Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry)
Yale University, 1997.
MD (Medicine)
Yale University School of Medicine, 2002.
MSCE (Epidemiology)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2008.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Infections in Transplant RecipientsDescription of Other Expertise
Transplant DonorsSelected Publications
Hatipoglu D, Blumberg EA, Hoteit MA, Lee I, Bitterman T: Trends in Donor-Derived HBV Infection in Liver Transplant Patients. American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases November 2025.Tandukar S, Chen L, Patel R, Lee I, Seif N, Sonnenberg E, Puttarajappa C, Potluri V: Impact of Cytomegalovirus Mismatch Serostatus on Kidney Transplant Outcomes: A Single Center Retrospective Cohort Study. World Transplant Congress, 2025, San Francisco, CA August 2025.
Knox JJ, Lee I, Blumberg E, Rosenfeld AM, Meng W, Liu F, Kearns C, O'Doherty U, Shaked A, Olthoff KM, and Luning Prak ET: B cell subset representation predicts COVID-19 vaccine response in solid organ transplant recipients. The Journal of Infectious Diseases June 2025.
Vinayak Ahluwalia, BSE; Sana Dastgheyb, MD, PhD; Mark Diamond, MD, PhD; Ingi Lee, MD, MSCE; Ima Paydar, MD; Keith Cengel, MD, PhD: Shingles After a Single Fraction of Radiation for Ewing Sarcoma. Applied Radiation Oncology 11(3), September 2022.
Wang R, Longworth SA, Doyon JB, Lee I, Bloom R, Romano CM, Veasey SL, Blumberg EA: Active tuberculosis after solid organ transplantation in individuals with negative pretransplant quantiferon-TB gold testing: a case series. Transplantation Proceedings April 2022.
Andrew Courtwright, Sarah Longworth, Donna Chojnowski, Ingi Lee, and Stephen Hunt: Treatment of a pulmonary aspergilloma in a lung transplant recipient using catheter-directed intracavitary instillation of liposomal amphotericin B. Transplantation Direct December 2021.
Ingi Lee and Emily Blumberg: HIV and organ transplantation. Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation 25: 371-376, July 2020.
Drapkin A and Lee I: Skin and soft tissue infections Common Dermatologic Conditions in Primary Care. Russell J. (eds), 2019. Russel J (eds) (eds.). 2019.
Winston DJ, Mullane KM, Cornely OA, Boeckh MJ, Brown JW, Pergam SA, Trociukas I, Žák P, Craig MD, Papanicolaou GA, Velez JD, Panse J, Hurtado K, Fernsler DA, Stek JE, Pang L, Su SC, Zhao Y, Chan ISF, Kaplan SS, Parrino J, Lee I, Popmihajlov Z, Annunziato PW, Arvin A; V212 Protocol 001 Trial Team: Inactivated varicella zoster vaccine in autologous haemopoietic stem-cell transplant recipients: an international, multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Lancet 391(10135): 2116-2127, May 2018.
Karia N, Naglak M, Lee I. : Do negative results of an influenza antigen test affect clinician’s decision of treatment? Abington Jefferson Health Research Symposium May 2018 Notes: Oral Presentation.