Boon Lead Tee, MD, MA

Assistant Professor
Fields of Interest

Dr. Tee is a neurologist from Taiwan and an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at the Global Brain Health Institute. She completed her medical and master’s degrees at National Taiwan University and her residency at National Taiwan University Hospital and En-Chu-Kong Hospital. She co-directs the Chinese outreach effort at UCSF Memory and Aging Center.

She specializes in various dementia syndromes, particularly primary progressive aphasia that predominantly manifests with speech and language impairments. Her research interest is focused on developing linguistically and culturally adapted cognitive assessment tools for Chinese populations that suffer from neurodegenerative diseases and studying their neural basis variability across populations.

Publications

Insights into pathophysiology, biomarkers, and therapeutics in tauopathies: Proceedings of the Tau2024 Global Conference.

Frost B, Rowe JB, Akinyemi RO, Abisambra JF, Ashton NJ, Brendel M, Buée L, Butler D, Carrillo MC, Chung P, Clelland CD, DeVos SL, Diaz K, Edelmayer RM, Elahi FM, Ellajosyula R, Ewen C, Fontana IC, Galas MC, Hansson O, Höglinger G, Horie K, Ibanez A, Jacobs L, Maina MB, Malpetti M, McDade E, McEwan W, Montoliu-Gaya L, Mummery CJ, Orr ME, Rohrer JD, Rommel A, Sastre C, Spires-Jones TL, Tee BL, Viney TJ, Walker JM, Wegmann S, Wildsmith K, Yadav R, Mahinrad S, Sexton C

Gaps in biomedical research in frontotemporal dementia: A call for diversity and disparities focused research.

Nuytemans K, Franzen S, Broce IJ, Caramelli P, Ellajosyula R, Finger E, Gupta V, Gupta V, Illán-Gala I, Loi SM, Morhardt D, Pijnenburg Y, Rascovsky K, Williams MM, Yokoyama JS, Acosta-Uribe J, Akinyemi R, Alladi S, Ayele BA, Ayhan Y, Bourdage R, Castro-Suarez S, de Souza LC, Dacks P, de Boer SCM, de Leon J, Dodge S, Grasso S, Ghoshal N, Kamath V, Kumfor F, Matias-Guiu JA, Narme P, Nielsen TR, Okhuevbie D, Piña-Escudero S, Ruiz-Garcia R, Ryan B, Scarioni M, Slachevsky A, Suarez-Gonzalez A, Tee BL, Tsoy E, Ulugut H, Onyike CU, Babulal GM, ISTAART Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Disorders PIA, ISTAART Diversity and Disparities PIA

Asian Cohort for Alzheimer's Disease (ACAD) pilot study on genetic and non-genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease among Asian Americans and Canadians.

Ho PC, Yu WH, Tee BL, Lee WP, Li C, Gu Y, Yokoyama JS, Reyes-Dumeyer D, Choi YB, Yang HS, Vardarajan BN, Tzuang M, Lieu K, Lu A, Faber KM, Potter ZD, Revta C, Kirsch M, McCallum J, Mei D, Booth B, Cantwell LB, Chen F, Chou S, Clark D, Deng M, Hong TH, Hwang LJ, Jiang L, Joo Y, Kang Y, Kim ES, Kim H, Kim K, Kuzma AB, Lam E, Lanata SC, Lee K, Li D, Li M, Li X, Liu CL, Liu C, Liu L, Lupo JL, Nguyen K, Pfleuger SE, Qian J, Qian W, Ramirez V, Russ KA, Seo EH, Song YE, Tartaglia MC, Tian L, Torres M, Vo N, Wong EC, Xie Y, Yau EB, Yi I, Yu V, Zeng X, St George-Hyslop P, Au R, Schellenberg GD, Dage JL, Varma R, Hsiung GR, Rosen H, Henderson VW, Foroud T, Kukull WA, Peavy GM, Lee H, Feldman HH, Mayeux R, Chui H, Jun GR, Ta Park VM, Chow TW, Wang LS

Gaps in clinical research in frontotemporal dementia: A call for diversity and disparities-focused research.

Franzen S, Nuytemans K, Bourdage R, Caramelli P, Ellajosyula R, Finger E, Illán-Gala I, Loi SM, Morhardt D, Pijnenburg Y, Rascovsky K, Williams MM, Yokoyama JS, Alladi S, Ayhan Y, Broce I, Castro-Suarez S, Coleman K, de Souza LC, Dacks PA, de Boer SCM, de Leon J, Dodge S, Grasso S, Gupta V, Gupta V, Ghoshal N, Kamath V, Kumfor F, Matias-Guiu JA, Narme P, Nielsen TR, Okhuevbie D, Piña-Escudero SD, Garcia RR, Scarioni M, Slachevsky A, Suarez-Gonzalez A, Tee BL, Tsoy E, Ulugut H, Babulal GM, Onyike CU, ISTAART FTD PIA and ISTAART Diversity and Disparities PIA