Lee Pyles, MD, MS
Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology Section, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Lee Pyles is a Professor of Pediatrics at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV since in 2015. Dr. Pyles trained and served on the Faculty at University of Minnesota after undergraduate (1979, BS Chemistry) and Medical School (1983) degrees at West Virginia University. Dr Pyles is Board Certified in Pediatrics (1988) and Pediatric Cardiology (1991). Dr. Pyles earned a Masters in Health Informatics from the University of Minnesota in 2013 and achieved Board Certification in Clinical Health Informatics as an inaugural Diplomate of the Informatics Sub-Board of the Board of Preventive Medicine (2014).
Dr. Pyles is Director of Preventive Cardiology in Pediatrics at WVU. Clinical interests include Preventive Cardiology, congenital heart disease and echocardiography. Academic work includes Co-Principal Investigator for the WV node of the Echo Idea State Pediatric Clinical Trial Network plus Co-Chair of the Network Obesity Work Group, site PI for “I am Healthy” trial, site investigator for Vitamin D in Obesity Related Asthma (VDORA) trial, and site PI for Pediatric Opportunistic Pharmacology Study. He is site PI for Columbia University NIH project “Detection of FH”, site PI for NIH Pediatric Heart Network “DO IT” trial of pitivistatin for hyperlipidemia of obesity. Dr. Pyles is mentoring Dr. Nita Ray-Chaudury at WVU in a tele-auscultation study in conjunction with OneHeart Health non-profit and serves as Medical Director of OneHeart Health. Dr. Pyles is site PI for FH Foundation Cascade FH Registry.
Dr. Pyles is Medical Director of Clinical Informatics for WVU Children’s Hospital and a Certified Epic Physician Builder. In the past, Dr. Pyles directed a series of grants to develop Emergency Medical Services for children in West Virginia and Minnesota, including development of a website to host Emergency-Focused Clinical Summaries for Children with Special Healthcare Needs. Dr. Pyles has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles. Currently Dr. Pyles is a member of the Epic Electronic Health Record Pediatric Cardiology Steering Committee, the AAP Council on Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Council on Clinical Informatics and American Heart Association Councils on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young and Epidemiology. Dr. Pyles has served as a grant reviewer for NIH and American Heart Association in the past 5 years.
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Terms of Appointment: November 2020 - October 2022