11. Raphael Carl Lee

Raphael Carl Lee [Image from UChicago Medicine]
Lee studied engineering at the University of South Carolina and completed the program with interest in medical applications. He then enrolled in Temple University School of Medicine and Drexel University College of Engineering’s combined medicine and engineering programs. He received his MD and MS degrees in 1975 and had his general surgery residency training at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
He holds several patents for scar treatment therapies, tissue engineered ligaments and brain trauma therapies.