Dr. Jessica Lee received her MD and MS in Clinical Science from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, completed her Internal Medicine residency at UTHealth Houston, and finished a two-year Geriatric Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.  She is currently an Associate Professor and the Carmel Bitondo Dyer, MD, Chair in Geriatric and Palliative Medicine within the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine at UTHealth Houston.  She is also the Medical Director of the Harris Health LBJ House Call Service which provides primary and palliative care to homebound adults.  Her research interests are in clinical interventions to increase resiliency in older adults to help them maintain their functional independence at home.  She has been awarded a K23 Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging and has research interests in frailty, nutrition and exercise interventions, technology, and social connections in older adults.