MH SUB I - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Registered Dental Hygienist
Alicia's passion to become a dental hygienist and care for people developed at a very young age. Her love for dental health care grew as she began working in a dental clinic at the age of 17.
She now has over 13 years of experience in the dental field. Alicia graduated from Algonquin College in 2004 as a Level I and Level II Dental Assistant; she then went on to graduate from Dental Hygiene at Algonquin College in 2009. She first embarked on her dental career in the Ottawa Valley, and then joined Dr. Lee and his team in the summer of 2013.Alicia strives to make an oral health care difference in the lives of her patients by incorporating thorough yet gentle evidence-based dental hygiene care.
Alicia enjoys spending quality time with her family by going to the cottage, hunting, fishing, cheering on the Blue Jays, family trips, movies and reading.
Dr. Lee graduated summa cum laude with an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience from McMaster University in 1997 and then received his Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from the University of Manitoba in 2002. He also served in the Canadian Forces as a Reservist Army Medical Assistant (1995-1999) and then as a Regular Force Army Dental Officer (1999-2007); during his tenure as a dental officer, Dr. Lee received extensive post-graduate training in a wide variety of specialties, including oral and maxillofacial surgery, rotary nickel-titanium endodontic therapy, and pain and anxiety control (held at the prestigious Bethesda Naval Medical Centre near Washington, DC). Desiring to further broaden his scope of practice for his patients, Dr. Lee pursued further post-graduate education in aesthetic dentistry (Post-Graduate Program in Aesthetic Dentistry at the University of Minnesota) and implant dentistry.
In order to improve the quality of care for Temporomandibular Dysfunction patients, Dr. Lee has recently joined The Pankey Institute - dentistry's leading provider of continuing education for clinical expertise.
Dr. Lee has a heart for social justice in our community - both locally and globally. He has volunteered his time to serve in multiple First Nations reserves, at dental clinics associated with shelters for the homeless in various cities across Canada, and in mobile dental clinics serving impoverished communities overseas including dental mission trips to Haiti (2012, 2013) and Peru (2019).
Dr. Lee is married to his beautiful wife Soo Jung with whom they have two beautiful children, Emma and Jabez. As a family, they enjoy: curling, downhill skiing, and skating on the Rideau Canal in the winter; golf, tennis, and basketball in the summer; and taekwondo no matter what the season! Dr. Lee also works part-time as a high-level international curling consultant.