Soo Mi Lee-Samuel, MD

Dr. Soo Mi Lee-Samuel attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts where she majored in sociology and minored in English Literature. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati, and then completed the “triple-board” residency program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, training in general pediatrics, adult psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry. She was selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as a Clinical Scholar and received a Master of Arts in Public Policy from the University of Chicago, where she researched and studied access to psychiatric care for children in the foster care system.

Dr. Lee-Samuel (known as “Dr. Lee” to her patients) has worked in multiple levels of psychiatric care, including inpatient, partial hospitalization programs, residential, and outpatient psychiatric care at various Chicago area hospitals. Dr. Lee-Samuel was an assistant professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the University of Chicago, and has served as the Director of Psychiatric Services for DCFS of Illinois and later as the Medical Director at Timberline Knolls where she worked with adolescents and adults with eating, trauma, substance use, and mood disorders. She has been interviewed as an expert for journal articles about mental health in Self and Chicago Health magazine. Most recently, Dr. Lee-Samuel was the Director of Pediatric Consults for the Endeavor Health System, and has co-authored a review examining drug interactions involving psychiatric medications which will be published in the European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. In her spare time, she enjoys visiting and hiking through the National Parks with her family, baking, knitting, and puzzling.