2026 Katharine A. Lembright Award and Lecturer – Christopher Sean Lee, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN, FHFSA

Christopher Sean Lee, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN, FHFSA

Boston College
Connell School of Nursing
Chesnut Hill, Massachusetts

Cardiovascular nurse scientist Christopher S. Lee, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN, FHFSA, is the Barry Family/Goldman Sachs Endowed Professor in Nursing at the Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing. Lee has dedicated his career to better understanding heart disease and improving long-term outcomes for patients and their families. He is known for his expertise in heart failure self-care, symptom science, and patient and care-partner dyadic research in chronic conditions, as well as the application of advanced statistical methods. Lee’s research involving adults with heart failure has been supported by multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Office of Research on Women’s Health and the American Heart Association, among many others.

Lee’s research on adults with heart disease has earned him multiple honors including the 2009 Martha N. Hill New Investigator Award, the 2013 Marie Cowan Award for early career investigators, the 2015 Arteriosclerosis/Heart Failure Translational Research Prize, the 2020 Mathy Mezey Excellence in Aging Award, and the 2021 Kathleen A. Dracup Exemplary Career in Mentoring Award from the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing, as well as the 2014 Heart Failure Society of America Nursing Leadership Award, the 2016 Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research Protégé Award and induction into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame in 2024.

Lee has published more than 300 papers, and his work has been cited more than 36,000 times. He prides himself on mentoring and has been successful in helping multiple colleagues secure National Research Service Awards, Career Development Awards and large Research Project Grants.