Chel Hee Lee, PhD

Chel Hee Lee

Pronouns: he/him

Affiliations

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Critical Care Medicine

Contact information

Email

chelhee.lee@ucalgary.ca

Web presence

Calgary R Users Group

Phone number

Office: 403-944-8208

Location

Office: MS566

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Research partners

Research student volunteers (non-paid) for Critical Care Research

Background

Educational Background

PhD Biostatistics, University of Saskatchewan, 2014

MSc Statistics, University of Manitoba, 2009

Research

Areas of Research

Bayesian inference and uncertainty quantification in precision medicine, medical education, and AI performance
Sampling algorithm development in high dimension
RESEARCH AND TEACHING


Research Area 

  • Bayesian inference and uncertainty quantification in precision medicine, medical education, and AI performance
  • Sampling algorithm development in high dimension

Please contact me by email for more information.


Services

  • Committee Chair, 2023-2026, Case Study Competition, Statistical Society of Canada
  • Committee Chair, 2021-2023, Case Study Competition, Statistical Society of Canada
  • Committee, 2019-2021, Case Study Competition, Statistical Society of Canada
  • Founder and organizer, 2018-Present, CalgaryR (Calgary R Users Group)

Projects

Theories and applications in imprecise probabilities

https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=imprecise101 

https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=imPois

 

Efficient sampling algorithm in high dimensions

https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dsample

 

Statistical applications in clinical decision-making and medical education

Awards

  • Alberta Lung Association 2021-2025, Principal Investigator, 2021-2022 National Grant Review, System biology approach to developing bedside early detection formula with COVID-19 ARDS patients,
  • Alberta Lung Association 2021-2023, Co-Investigator, 2020-2021 National Grant Review, Analyzing and Validating ARDS Metabolomics using Robust Statistical Methods,
  • Office of Health & Medical Education 2019-2020, Co-Investigator, Measuring Type 2 Thinking during the Diagnostic Process,
  • Best Article of 2019, JME Publication Prize, the German Association for Medical Education,
  • Early Career Researcher Program Award in 2017, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Cancer Research (CIHR-ICR),

Publications

PubMed

More Information

Featured Journal articles – Peer Reviewed

Articles from PubMeds or ResearchGate

  • Soltanifar, M; Lee, CH. (2023). SimSST: An R Statistical Software Package to Simulate Stop Signal Task Data. Mathematics. 11(500)
  • Stephana J. Cherak, Chel Hee Lee, Christopher J. Doig, Liam Whalen-Browne, Henry T. Stelfox, Kirsten M. Fiest. (2022). Delirium Diagnosis Without a Gold Standard: Evaluating Diagnostic Accuracy of Combined Delirium Assessment Tools. PLOS ONE. 17(4): 1-13.
  • Yeung M; Lee, CH; Weaver, C; Hartmann, R; Lang, E. (2022). Opioid-Related Emergency Department visits anddeaths following a harm-reduction intervention: A retrospective observational cohort time-series analysis. CMAJ Open.
  • Metwaly, S; Côté, A; Donnelly, SJ; Banoei, MM; Lee, CH; Andonegui, G; Yipp, BG; Vogel, HJ; Fiehn, O; Winston, BW. (2021). ARDS Metabolic Fingerprints: Characterization, Benchmarking and Potential Mechanistic Interpretation. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 321(1): L79-L90.
  • Waechter J, Reading D, Lee CH, Walker M. (2019). Quantifying the medical student learning curve for ECG rhythm strip interpretation using deliberate practice. GMS Journal for Medical Education. 36(4): 1-21.
  • Baerwald A, Van den Brink H, Hunter C, Beuker D, Lim H, Lee CH, Chizen D. (2018). Age-related changes in luteal dynamics: preliminary associations with antral follicular dynamics and hormone production during the human menstrual cycle. Menopause. 25(4): 399-407.
  • Shiff N, Tupper S, Oen K, Guzman J, Lim H, Lee CH, Bryce R, Huber A, Boire G, Dancey P, Feldman B, Laxer R, Miettunen P, Schmeling H, Duffy K, Levy D, Turvey S, Bolaria R, Bruns A, Tucker L. (2017). Trajectories of pain severity in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: results from the Research in Arthritis in Canadian Children Emphasizing Outcomes cohort. PAIN. 159: 57-66.
  • Van den Brink H, Robertson D, Lim H, Lee CH, Chizen D, Harris G, Hale G, Burger H, Baerwald A. (2015). Associations Between Antral Ovarian Follicle Dynamics and Hormone Production Throughout the Menstrual Cycle as Women Age. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 100(21): 4553–4562.
  • Wang L, Lee CH. (2014). Discretization-based direct random sample generation. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 71: 1001-1010.


Software/Technical Papers


Books

  • Lee YS, Lee CH. (2015). A first course in statistical programming with R (in Korean). Lee YS, Lee CH. Co-Editor Published, Free Academy, Korea, South


Thesis/Dissertation

  • Imprecise Prior for Imprecise Inference on Poisson Sampling Model. (2014). University of Saskatchewan.
  • Efficient Random Sample Generation Through Random Discretization. (2009). The University of Manitoba.