Wendy Lee, MD

Dr. Wendy Lee, M.D., is a founder of Carolina Rheumatology and Neurology Associates, was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and was delivered by her father who was chief resident in OBGYN at the time. She grew up in Taichung, Taiwan and emigrated to California before starting high school. She graduated from UCLA with a degree in biochemistry and earned her MD degree from the University of the East College of Medicine, in the Philippines.

Dr. Lee returned to the states for her residency in internal medicine at Brown University College of Medicine in Providence, RI, where she also completed her fellowship in rheumatology. She was inspired to become a rheumatologist while in her first year internship. She was caring for a patient in a nursing home who was bed bound due to severe musculoskeletal deformities.

She moved to Myrtle Beach in 1997 and worked in a multi-specialty group before branching out on her own and establishing Carolina Rheumatology in 2000, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2025.

Dr. Lee’s philosophy of care is to treat patients as she would like to be treated as a patient. Her goal is to obtain remission and prevent musculoskeletal and organ damage.