Tamsin Lee
Tamsin
Lee
Adjunct Faculty
Campus:
- Saybrook University
- Department
- Mind-Body Medicine
- Institution
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Saybrook University
- Biography
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Tamsin Lee, DA[o]M, Dipl. [om], EAMP (she/they) is a second-generation Corean-American, East Asian Medicine (EAM) doctor, community-based participatory researcher, health justice educator, and social venture entrepreneur.
Dr. Lee completed their National Institute of Health funded postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington and Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute where their research explored community building amongst marginalized communities. In 2021, they were awarded the UW Population Health Equity grant to partner with Asian and Black community organizers to investigate the potential benefits of interactive webinars for Asian and Black Americans living with emotional distress due to racial discrimination during the COVID pandemic.
Dr. Lee is the recipient of multiple awards including the National Institute of Health's Ruth L. Kirchenstein Interdisciplinary Research Training Award (T90), TEDMed Frontline Scholar, Emerging Leadership Award from the American Public Health Association, and a grant recipient of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine Institute. In 2021, Well + Good named Dr. Lee a Health and Wellness Changemaker for her activism against anti-Asian xenophobia within the EAM field.
Driven by their belief that health and wellness is a basic human right, they fuse their multifaceted professional background in medicine, research and education to build creative spaces for people to navigate their everyday health and wellness with radical compassion.
- Areas of Expertise
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Area Expertise Diversity Racism and White Privilege Social Justice and Advocacy Mindfulness and Meditation Program development and implementation Integrative Medicine Traditional Chinese Medicine Leadership & Management Social Entreprenuership PTSD/Trauma Complex Trauma Research Design/Methodology Mixed Methods Research Qualitative Inquiry Transformative Social Change Community Health - Licenses
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East Asian Medicine Practitioner, Washington - Media Exposure
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Appearance - Presentations
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Title Location Date Liberation and Transformation: Decolonizing Traditional Medicine Online: Integrative Medicine for the Underserved September 2021 Harm Reduction in the East Asian Medicine Field Online June 2021 Building Resilient Attitudes Through Virtual Engagements (BRAVE): An online community-based participatory feasibility study for Asian and Black Americans Online: American Public Health Association — Community Health Planning and Policy Development March 2021 uilding Resilient Attitudes Through Virtual Engagements (BRAVE): A qualitative study on an interaction webinar series for Asian and Black Americans American Public Health Association — Mental Health March 2021 Acupuncture and Telehealth (AcuTe) Survey of Practice During the COVID-19 Crisis Online: American Public Health Association October 2020 The Benefits of T’ai Chi in Older Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain Online: International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health May 2020 Resiliency in the Digital Age; Acupuncture and Mindfulness in Neuropeptide Y and Internet Addiction Portland, Oregon August 2017 Loving Compassion Metta Practice Portland, Oregon May 2017 A Retrospective Case Series on the Effectiveness of Acupuncture and Herpes Zoster San Francisco, California April 2017 Mind-Body Medicine for Acupuncturists Portland, Oregon February 2014 - Research
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Feasibility research in the use of social media and community building.
The use of social media as a recruitment strategy and survey studies.
Mixed-methods design for feasibility studies.
Community-based participatory research for Asian and Black communities.
Survey study on the use of Integrative Medicine in Latine population.
- Publications
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Journal Lee TL, Langley Blake, Noboriko J, Skye-Babbott A, LaForce-Booth C. (2022). The Acupuncture and Telehealth Survey: A Cross-Sectional Survey Exploring Early COVID-19 Impacts on the Acupuncture Profession. Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 28 (1), 36-44.
Lee TL, Sherman KJ, Hawkes, RJ, Phelan EA, Turner JA (2020). The Benefits of T'ai Chi in Older Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Qualitative study. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 26 (6), 456-462.
Sherman KJ, Wellman RD, Hawkes RJ, Phelan EA, Lee TL, Turner, JA (2020). T’ai Chi for Chronic Low Back Pain in Older Adults: A Feasibility Trial. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 26 (3), 176-189.
Cooper, F, Marx, BL, Lee TL, Espesete D (2018). Super-users at an Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Teaching Clinic: Demographics and Unique Clinical Characteristics. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 23 (3), 222-226.
