Associate Professor
University of Texas Tyler School of Medicine
Dr. Le is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas Tyler School of Medicine (UTTSOM) with solid credentials in health science, including a Doctor of Medicine, a Doctor of Public Health in Clinical Research, and a Master of Public Health in Health Management and Policy. He is also a Co-Director of the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program for Anderson and Cherokee Counties in East Texas, a Co-Director of the Henderson County Opioid Prevention and Education (HOPE), and a principal investigator of numerous funded projects. He participates in teaching Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Clinical Research courses and mentoring MPH and PhD students and medical residents. Before joining UTTSOM, he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Long School of Medicine, an Adjunct Professor at the UT Tyler School of Community and Rural Health, and a Health Research Scientist at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research and Veteran Affairs Healthcare System. Dr. Le has more than 20 years of experience in multidisciplinary research topics, including but not limited to traumatic brain injury, prehospital intervention, the influence of policy on mortality and morbidities, burn and non-burn trauma clinical outcomes, and combat casualty care research. He authored and co-authored more than 100 research publications, including NEJM, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Surgery, Annal of Surgery, and other high-impact journals, and more than 100 unique abstracts presented at national and international scientific conferences.
