Suzanne Lee, B.S., Pharm.D.
PAA Past President

Suzanne Lee arrived in the United States from Vietnam in 1975. After working odd jobs, she decided to go back to school to become a pharmacy technician. She worked at Northwest Hospital for 12 years before earning her B.S. in pharmacy from UW in 1988. While continuing to work, Suzanne returned to UW to earn her Pharm.D. in 2001.

A clinical pharmacist, she has been at Northwest Hospital for more than 32 years. She works in the intensive-care/critical-care units and continues to love her job and profession.

In 2002, she was awarded the UW Wayne A. Kradjan Clinical Teaching Award for her work as a preceptor. Suzanne has been a clinical assistant professor for the UW School of Pharmacy for more than three years.

Each year, she spends a month in Japan to teach at UW’s sister school, Keio University, in Tokyo. She also precepts two students from Keio University, two students from Khon Kaen University in Thailand, and one student from Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., every year.

For fun, Suzanne loves shopping, fishing and movies. She is an avid baseball fan and loves Ichiro. Her true joy, however, is her family — her two daughters, her grandson and her granddaughter.

She greatly enjoys PAA for the opportunity it gives her to keep in touch with fellow pharmacists and stay involved in School activities which support School programs, alumni and students. Suzanne joined the executive board of PAA as a way to give back to the School, and she hopes to encourage other pharmacists to do the same.