About Our Team

Dr. Clara Lee is a surgeon and Professor of Plastic Surgery with expertise in breast reconstruction, microsurgery, and gender-affirming chest reconstruction. She holds both an MD from Yale University and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University and has received numerous honors including the Emerging Leadership Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Resident Teaching Award. Dr. Lee currently serves as a Director for the Board for the American Board of Plastic Surgery.

Dr. Mary Politi is a of professor of Public Health and a researcher at Siteman Cancer Center, with a focus on health communication and shared decision-making. Her work helps patients understand health information, engage in collaborative decision-making, and reduce health disparities, particularly by involving underserved communities. Dr. Politi is also an expert in financial toxicity, exploring ways to alleviate the burden of healthcare costs, and she trains healthcare professionals and the public in shared decision-making practices.

Dr. Terence Myckatyn is a board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon specializing in aesthetic surgery breast reduction. He is an expert in a wide range of procedures, including breast augmentation, implant-based breast reconstruction, and DIEP flap reconstruction. Dr. Myckatyn's research interests focus on breast implant-related infections, shared decision-making tools for breast reconstruction, and outcomes in both cosmetic and reconstructive breast surgery. He holds leadership roles in multiple professional organizations and serves as an associate editor for several prestigious journals in the field.

Dr. Olsen’s primary research interests involve the epidemiology of hospital-acquired infections, particularly surgical site infection, and the use of administrative and claims data to study surgical complications. She is interested in identifying operation-specific risk factors and developing risk prediction models for surgical site infections after specific procedures (particularly spine and breast cancer surgery). Her other active area of research involves the development of methods for electronic and claims data-based surveillance to determine the incidence and outcomes of surgical site and other hospital-acquired infections.

Dr. Foraker is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics & Medical Epidemiology at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. She is trained as an epidemiologist and holds fellowships in the American Heart Association, American Medical Informatics Association, and the American College of Medical Informatics. Dr. Foraker specializes in the design of population-based studies and the integration of electronic health record data with socioeconomic indicators as well as the use of synthetic data for research. Her recent research has focused on the application of clinical decision support – embedded in the electronic health record – to complement risk scoring in primary care, cardiology, oncology, and palliative care.