Christopher Lee (Lee Pellegrini)
Connell School of Nursing Professor and Associate Dean for Research Christopher Lee, a cardiovascular nurse scientist, is the recipient of two honors in recognition of his research contributions.
Lee was appointed to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research, which makes recommendations to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and to the director of the National Institute for Nursing Research regarding NINR-related activities and policy matters. He was sworn in on January 8.
Part of the National Institutes of Health, the NINR is committed to promoting and improving the health of individuals, families, and communities by supporting and conducting clinical and basic research and research training on health and illness. The scope of the research spans and integrates the behavioral and biological sciences, and develops the scientific basis for clinical practice.
As part of this service, Lee also will join the new NINR Strategic Plan Working Group which will help set the agenda for the next five years of science sponsored by the institute.
"I am humbled by this honor and thrilled to represent Boston College and the Connell School of Nursing as a member of this important council," said Lee. In 2018, he was invited to speak at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md., as part of the prestigious NINR Director’s Lecture Series, where the nation’s top nurse scientists present their work to an interdisciplinary audience of NIH intramural scientists, leaders of other NIH institutes, grant program officers, physicians, nurses, and other clinicians.
Lee also received the 2020 Mathy Mezey Excellence in Aging Award from the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing. The award, which was presented in November, recognizes individuals who have distinguished themselves in promoting competence in caring for elderly cardiovascular or stroke patients through teaching, research, and/or practice.
Lee has previously been honored for his research by the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing, having received the organization’s Martha N. Hill New Investigator Award, Marie Cowan Promising Young Investigator Award, and Heart Failure Translational Research Prize.
"What is most exciting for me about this award from the American Heart Association is that it signals an exciting new chapter in nursing research at Boston College," said Lee, who is a fellow of the American Heart Association, the Heart Failure Society of America, and the American Academy of Nursing.
Kathleen Sullivan | University Communications | January 2021