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 extensive training in health sciences. He holds a Doctor of Medicine (MD), a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) in Clinical Research, and a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Health Management and Policy. He currently served as a Director of the ROADS to Recovery: Rural Opioid Access, Delivery, and Supports Project and as Co-Director of the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program for Anderson and Cherokee Counties in East Texas (ANCHOR). In additionally, Dr. Le is the principal investigator on multiple extramurally funded research projects.
Dr. Le is deeply engaged in education and mentorship at UTTSOM, where he teaches courses in teaching Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Clinical Research, and mentors MPH and PhD students, as well as medical students and residents. Prior to joining UTTSOM, he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Long School of Medicine at San Antonio, an Adjunct Professor at the UT Tyler School of Community and Rural Health at Tyler, and a Research Scientist at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research and Veterans Affairs Healthcare Systems.
With more than 20 years of multidisciplinary research experience, Dr. Le's scholarly work spans a wide range of areas, including traumatic brain injury, prehospital interventions, policy impacts on mortality and morbidities, burn and non-burn trauma outcomes, combat casualty care, and infectious diseases. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in leading scientific journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Surgery, Annal of Surgery, and other high-impact journals. He has also over 100 unique abstracts presented at national and international scientific conferences.
