Kent Lee, MA, MD, FAAFP
Professor & Chair, Primary Care Residency Programs
Kent Alan Lee, MA., M.D., FAAFP., grew up in Memphis, and is a graduate of the University of Memphis, with a BS in Forensic Anthropology and Chemistry, and an MA in Medical Anthropology. He completed medical school at the University of Tennessee in 1993, and his Family Medicine residency there in 1996. After his medical training, he had the opportunity to go to the Far East with the U.S. Navy in Okinawa, Japan, and work at the U.S. Naval Hospital there, a position which he enjoyed immensely. Upon leaving active duty in 1999, he took a position as faculty at the University of Arkansas AHEC in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He has also held faculty appointments from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in both Chattanooga and Memphis, before coming to this program in 2015. He currently has clinical duties as a Hospitalist with Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, where he leads the inpatient instruction for the residency. He obtained the degree of Fellow of the Academy of Family Physicians in 2005, and is active in the AAFP, TNAFP, STFM, TMA, AMA, and SHM. When not in clinic or the hospital, Dr. Lee enjoys guitar, fixing and riding motorcycles, and canoeing in local waterways. He is married to Beth Choby, MD and they have four children together.
Doctorate Degree: University of Tennessee; 1993
Residency: University of Tennessee; 1993
Military Service: US Navy Reserve, Active Deployment; 1996-1999 Staff Physician, Family Medicine Directorate, US Naval Hospital, Okinawa, Japan, Honorable discharge, LCDR MC USNR; 2005
Professional Memberships
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- Tennessee Academy of Family Physicians
- Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
- Society of Hospital Medicine
- American Medical Association
- Tennessee Medical Association
- Shelby County Medical Society
- Physician Assistant Education Association
