National Addiction Treatment, Mental Health Leader Hazelden Betty Ford Promotes Physician To Be Next CEO

Joseph Lee, M.D., has been promoted to become the eighth president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, effective June 28, 2021. An experienced addiction medicine professional and child and adolescent psychiatrist whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Seoul, South Korea, Dr. Lee will be the first physician and first non-white leader to take the helm of the nation's largest nonprofit provider of addiction and mental health care, recovery resources, and related education, prevention, research and advocacy. At 45, he also will be the youngest CEO in the organization's 72 . . .