Biography

Dr. Jee's primary areas of inquiry relate to health disparities for underserved children. Her work has focused on continuity of care, psychosocial issues for children, and health needs for children in foster care. Dr. Jee's current research interests include resilience for children in the child welfare system and mental health needs for children in foster care. She has received funding from local foundations to do both primary data collection studies examining quality of care and adherence to clinical standards in foster care, and also from federal sources (Administration for Children and Families) to conduct secondary data analysis using nationally representative samples to study child welfare issues. She has experience as a diagnostician for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, and she has been an invited keynote speaker for local and statewide talks on this topic, as well as a member of a grant review panel for the Centers for Disease Control. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholar, and completed a three-year mentored career development award. Her Physician Faculty Scholars Program project was entitled, "Primary Care-Based Mental Health Screening for Adolescents in Foster Care", which used both qualitative and quantitative methods in a prospective study of teens entering the foster care system receiving primary care in a centralized health care model. Her current work continues to focus on disparities for youth in foster and kinship care, specifically focused on mental health needs of youth in out-of-home care.