Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship Faculty

Cori L. Daines, MD - Associate Professor
Dr. Daines earned her MD at St. Louis University School of Medicine, completed her residency at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, and her fellowship in pediatric pulmonary medicine at the University of North Carolina. Before joining The University of Arizona, Dr. Daines was an assistant professor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Daines is the Director of the Pediatric Flex-Bronch Program. She is also the Center Director for the Tucson Cystic Fibrosis Center. Dr. Daines participates in a non-invasive ventilator support program for special needs children and cares for children with eosinophilic gastroenteritis and eosinophilic esophagitis at the PANDA Children’s Aerodigestive Disorders Center. She also participates in monthly Neuro-muscular clinics with CRS. Dr. Daines’ research interests focus on the treatment of cystic fibrosis.

Rees "Chip" Lee, MD - Associate Professor
Dr. Lee is a board-certified Pediatric Pulmonologist who completed his undergraduate and medical school training at Stanford University, pediatric residency at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth and his pediatric pulmonology fellowship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.  In October 2021, he followed his wife Sally back to her hometown of Tucson, AZ, after she had been following him for 35 years to numerous duty stations while serving in the U.S. Navy.   Prior to starting his medical career, he qualified as a Surface Warfare Officer with 5 years of at-sea experience on destroyers as a Navigator and Communications Officer.  As a U.S. Navy medical officer, he spent 3 years as a general pediatrician and another 17 years as a pediatric pulmonologist treating children with complex lung diseases.  His leadership assignments included Chair of the military’s largest tertiary care Pediatric Department in Portsmouth, Virginia; second-in-command of the hospital ship USNS COMFORT (T-AH 20); Commanding Officer of Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton, a medical research institute conducting aerospace and toxicology research; and, in his last duty assignment, he was the Force Surgeon of Naval Surface Force Atlantic overseeing the medical care of the 27,000 Sailors assigned to the surface ships of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.  He has deployed multiple times to the Middle East, Afghanistan and Central/South America including an assignment as the Senior Medical Officer of the NATO Role 3 Trauma Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.  Following his retirement from the Navy, Dr. Lee joined the University of Arizona as an Associate Professor in Pediatric Pulmonology and provides clinical care at Diamond Children’s Hospital and at the Children’s Clinics.  His current research interests include developing solutions to address pediatric respiratory diseases on the Navajo Nation; and using large databases to conduct outcomes research on respiratory issues.  He loves to bike and kayak.  And despite spending much of his life at sea, Dr. Lee is happy to now just be a simple ‘Dirt Sailor’ living in the arid desert of Arizona.

Fernando D. Martinez MD - ProfessorDr. Martinez is a Regents Professor, Swift-McNear Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Asthma and Airway Disease Center at the University of Arizona. His major research interests include the natural history of childhood asthma, and the role of genetic, physiological, immunological and environmental factors as determinants of the risk for asthma in early life. Dr. Martinez received his medical degrees from the University of Chile, Santiago and the University of Rome, Italy. He completed his residency in pediatrics at the University of Rome, specializing in pediatric pulmonology. He has been at the University of Arizona since 1987. Dr. Martinez is a member of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child and of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He was also a member of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program’s Expert Panel, which developed the last two versions of the NHLBI Guidelines for the Treatment of Asthma. Dr. Martinez has written more than 250 journal articles, book chapters and editorials, and has lectured in over 50 countries across the world.

Wayne J. Morgan, MD - Professor Dr. Morgan is a Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology and Vice-Chair for Academics in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Morgan is the Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship Program Director. Dr. Morgan’s clinical interests include asthma, cystic fibrosis, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia. He is nationally recognized for his expertise as a respiratory physiologist and has helped to develop innovative lung function testing methods for infants and young children. He is a core member of the research team conducting the Tucson Children’s Respiratory Study (TCRS). This is a longitudinal study of childhood respiratory health from infancy through adulthood. The TCRS is the oldest, longest running birth cohort study of respiratory health in the world and has substantively added to our understanding of risk factors for asthma and clarified the phenotypes of wheezing illness in young children. The TCRS is now focused upon adult follow up studies including integrative omics strategies along with detailed physiology and imaging studies. Dr. Morgan is also an accomplished educator and has received several teaching awards for his skills in teaching respiratory physiology, clinical pediatrics, and pediatric pulmonary medicine. His research is in the primary prevention of asthma, the epidemiology of respiratory health from childhood through adulthood, and cystic fibrosis epidemiology.  He chairs the national Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) Data Safety and Monitoring Board which oversees all clinical research sanctioned by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and serves on the CFF Patient Registry and Comparative Effectiveness Research Committee.

Anne L. Wright, PhD - Professor
Dr. Wright, a Professor of Pediatrics, is the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs. She oversees all aspects of the Faculty Affairs Office. She designs and implements career and leadership development programs; oversees faculty recruitment and promotion; monitors and works to enhance faculty diversity; fosters initiatives to increase faculty participation; and evaluates the effects of these efforts. A medical anthropologist, Dr. Wright has led projects that resulted in sustained change in both health behaviors and the status of women. She recently collaborated with colleagues at the Association of American Medical Colleges to produce and disseminate an e-seminar on unconscious bias as it relates to hiring of faculty and leaders. Dr. Wright has been an employee of the UA College of Medicine since 1979, and her research on the epidemiology of asthma in childhood is nationally and internationally known. She is committed to creating a climate where faculty members feel welcome, valued and engaged.