Burton W. Lee, MD is the Head of Medical Education and the Head of Global Critical Care for the Critical Care Medicine Department at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Prior to his recent transition to the NIH in 2020, he served as a Professor of Medicine at University of Pittsburgh. Burt completed his B.A. at UCLA and his M.D. at Harvard, where he completed his training in internal medicine and then pulmonary critical care medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. He also trained in Clinical Effectiveness and Evidence Based Health Care at the Harvard School of Public Health and Oxford University, respectively. Throughout his career, Burt’s primary academic focus has been in education and training of medical students, residents, and fellows, both in the U.S. and in Sub Saharan Africa. He is particularly interested in exploring how physicians develop (and potentially lose) mastery of medical knowledge and skills especially for complex concepts such as mechanical ventilation and scientific numeracy. He has served in various educational leadership capacities–a recent list includes Co-Founder of the Emergency Critical Care Clinical Officer (ECCCO) Training Program in Kenya; an Associate Editor for the journal, ATS Scholar; Director of the Medical Education Laboratory Think Tank at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Director of the Fundamentals of Mechanical Ventilation Course for fellows; and the Director of the Scientific Literacy and Numeracy Course for medical students.