Yoo Jin Lee

Yoo Jin Lee, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. Her clinical work focuses on thoracic, cardiac, and noninvasive vascular imaging for endovascular intervention and cardiovascular surgery and vascular disease.

Dr. Lee earned her medical degree at Kyungpook National University, followed by an internship and diagnostic radiology residency at the same institution. She completed additional training at the University of Virginia, including research associate, clinical instructor, and clinical fellow positions in Cardiovascular Radiology and Nuclear Medicine.

Her major research focuses on Cardiothoracic MRI imaging, including parametric mapping, myocardial scar imaging using 3D late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), thoracic MRI using 0.55T MRI, and pulmonary vascular MRI imaging. She also investigates multimodality imaging of cardiac fibrosis through Cardiac PET/CT and PET/MR using novel radiotracers compared to parametric mapping and LGE sequences from Cardiac MRI.

Dr. Lee's current research portfolio demonstrates significant activity in advanced cardiac imaging techniques, with emphasis on developing more efficient and comprehensive MRI protocols for vascular malformations, myocardial fibrosis detection, and HIV-related cardiac dysfunction.

Her active research projects include:

• Preliminary cardiac imaging at high-performance 0.55T MRI (as Primary Investigator and Co-Investigator)
• Efficient and Comprehensive Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Vascular Malformations (AVIATOR)
• Imaging of Active Myocardial Fibrosis Using 68Ga-FAP-2286 (as Primary Investigator)
• Improved Cardiac MRI: Fast, Free-Breathing, Quantitative, Without Contrast Administration
• SPIROMICS II: Heart Failure
• Novel Arrhythmic Risk Screening Using Cardiac MRI and ECG Machine Learning in Mitral Valve Prolapse

Dr. Lee maintains an active research program with multiple NIH-funded projects and industry collaborations focused on advancing cardiovascular imaging techniques and improving diagnostic capabilities for complex cardiac conditions.