Lee-Messer Lab Team

Christopher Lee-Messer, MD, PhD

Dr. Chris Lee-Messer is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Neurology at Stanford University. Dr. Lee-Messer received his B.A. at Harvard University and M.D. and Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis. He completed an internship in pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, before completing residency in child neurology at Stanford and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. He has also completed an epilepsy fellowship at Stanford.

Dr. Lee-Messer's research has focuses on the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to advance the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. His basic science research focused on the role of neuronal microcircuits in information processing and development. He completed his PhD work in the laboratory of Professor Rachel O. L. Wong. He conducted postdoctoral research in optogenetics in the laboratory of Professor Karl Deisseroth in the departments of Bioengineering and Psychiatry at Stanford.   He now works as a member of the pediatric epilepsy and general child neurology groups.