Jessica Lee

Jessica Lee is a board-certified pediatric gastroenterologist. She brings 15 years of federal service, including 14 years at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where she served for more than five years as Director of the Division of Gastroenterology in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), leading multidisciplinary review teams and serving as signatory authority. She also served at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) as Division Deputy Director and Senior Scientific Advisor for Clinical and Translational Research in Digestive Diseases. During her time in federal service, Jessica recognized the significant unmet need in celiac disease and the urgency of advancing treatment options beyond the gluten-free diet. This perspective ultimately led her to join Beyond Celiac and help accelerate progress in the field. Jessica earned her B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her M.D. from SUNY Upstate Medical University. She completed her pediatrics training at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and her fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where she also served on the faculty. She holds a Master of Medical Sciences in Clinical Investigation from Harvard Medical School.