Myles Lee, MD (President)
MYLES LEE, MD (President), a graduate of Tufts Medical School, practiced cardiothoracic surgery in Los Angeles for 40 years and is currently a senior member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has authored numerous scientific papers, a textbook on complications in cardiac surgery (Near Misses in Cardiac Surgery), which has been updated by the Massachusetts General Hospital and was published in 2022 by Springer (Sundt, Cameron, and Lee, editors), as well as a novel (The Donation), a story of redemption that dramatizes the shortage of organ donors.
Dr. Lee is an historical hobbyist with an extensive library on American history and the presidency. He has written librettos for works on George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and both Roosevelts, orchestrated by noted New York composer-conductor, Victoria Bond, and now on a CD by Albany Records entitled Soul of a Nation that features the Chicago College of Performing Arts Orchestra and soloists from the Chicago and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras.
Dr. Lee has a degree cum laude in Art History from Harvard University. Now a fine art photographer, he subordinates the reality of natural scenes to abstract expressionistic images dominated by form, composition, balance, color, texture, and light. As Lee says, “Art is what we abstract from the reality that confronts our senses. Everyone’s perception of reality is different; indeed, Picasso once said he could paint a hundred versions of the same scene and come up with a hundred different versions of the truth. Each of my images, then, becomes its own truth, a truth I have chosen. But it is up to both the viewer and the artist to decide wherein lies the truth. Truth, then, is what the artist and the observer choose it to be.”
Dr. Lee is a member of the Carmel Foundation Photographers and the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California (CPA). He has been a finalist in juried exhibits in 2014, 1017, and 2018. He has exhibited in Los Angeles, San Diego, Carmel, Monterey, and Baltimore. His work resides in private collections in Los Angeles; Santa Barbara; Carmel; Durham, North Carolina; Pulaski, Virginia; and East Hampton, New York and is in the permanent art collection of the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. A sampling of his work can be seen on Instagram @mylesleephotography.