Lisa M Lee, PhD, MA, MS serves as Senior Associate Vice President for Research and Innovation at Virginia Tech. She also holds a faculty appointment in the department of Population Health Sciences. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, she served in the Obama administration where she was appointed Executive Director of the Presidential Bioethics Commission. She also served as the inaugural Chief of Bioethics at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research where her role included IRB Chair, Research Integrity Officer, and Chair of the Bioethics Consultation Service. Dually trained in infectious disease epidemiology and bioethics, Lee has served for over 25 years as an epidemiologist, bioethicist, and ethics educator. She has worked in public health and ethics at the local, state, federal, and global levels, including 14 years at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At CDC, she served in a number of leadership roles, including the agency’s Assistant Science Officer, director of the Office of Scientific Integrity, and Chief Science Officer in the office of surveillance and epidemiology. She has served on public health and ethics working groups for the World Health Organization, the Wellcome Trust, and Chatham House. Lee is the lead editor of Principles and Practice of Public Health Surveillance, 3d edition (Oxford University Press). She has authored numerous publications in both science and ethics and serves as associate editor for the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry and Public Health Reports. The focus of Lee’s current work is research ethics, scientific integrity, and public health ethics. Dr Lee served as Chair of the executive board of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics from 2021-2023, and served as the inaugural chair of the Ethics Section of the American Public Health Association. In 2014 she was honored with the Pellegrino Medal for excellence in bioethics. Lee holds a PhD in public health from Johns Hopkins University, and an MA in educational psychology and MS in bioethics.