Damien Bennett Lee, MD
I speak: English
My gender: Male
Where I practice
- Emergency service
- Urgent care services
- After-hours services
- Pharmacy services
- No emergency services
- No urgent care services
- No after-hours services
- No pharmacy services
About me
Welcome to my Web page. I’m glad to have the opportunity to introduce myself. I’m an emergency medicine physician, and have been practicing at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center for nearly ten years, and now I’ve also been practicing at the Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center for five years.
Biography
I was born in Vietnam and moved to Northern California when I was 10 years old. I obtained a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences at UC Davis, and then moved to New York to attend medical school at New York Medical College in Valhalla. After graduating from medical school, I moved to Southern California to do my residency in emergency medicine. Because of the beautiful weather of Southern California, my family and I decided to stay here, and I joined Kaiser Permanente. I love to travel to different countries and places in the world to experience the different cultures and food. When I’m abroad, I often offer my services as a doctor to the local hospitals and clinics. Helping take care of the patients at these small local clinics reminds me of the reasons I became a doctor.
About my practice
Emergency medicine is an important aspect of my life. I’m here to help you and take care of you. Your health is very important to me and I feel honored to be entrusted with your care. I feel that you should be treated as if you were a member of my own family because, as a Kaiser Permanente member, you do belong to a big family. I feel extremely fortunate to be part of the Kaiser Permanente family because it truly is a great organization for health care—all decisions about treatments are arrived at together by doctors, members, and their families. I look forward to working with you to care for your health.
How I thrive
I believe in the Kaiser Permanente philosophy of living well in mind, body, and spirit. I try to live a balanced life between work and family. I love to spend time with my wife and my three daughters—either traveling together or just spending a quiet weekend afternoon at home. I try to eat balance meals and exercise at least three times per week. I believe that staying healthy physically and mentally will enable me to stay focused and driven in my member care.
My office
Languages spoken by medical staff
Help is available in your language. Learn more.
My provider type
Physicians and SurgeonsMedical groups, plans, and locations
Southern California Permanente Medical Group
- Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO)
- HMO
- Medi-Cal Managed Care
- Point-of-Service Plan (POS)
- Senior Advantage
Contact information
- Advice/appointments/information
- 1-833-574-2273 (toll free)
- TTY
- 1-800-800-7990 (toll-free TTY for the hearing/speech impaired)
My training, certifications and licensing
Medical school
New York Medical CollegeBoard certification
Emergency Medicine
American Board of Emergency MedicineMedical training
Internship
Emergency Medicine
Los Angeles County King/Drew Medical CenterResidency
Emergency Medicine
Los Angeles County King/Drew Medical CenterJoined Permanente Medical Group
1999Active license information
License number
A66354License type
Physician and SurgeonLicense issuing state
CALIFORNIANational Provider Identifier (NPI)
1013057561Cultural Competency Training (CCT)
CompletedMy hospitals
All Kaiser Permanente physicians and podiatrists have admitting privileges or the ability to refer patients to our plan hospitals. Admitting privileges of other providers may vary by plan and facility. Contact your plan administrator for details.
Setting the standard: Measuring care quality in our hospitals(PDF)
To find a provider's office hours, search our facility directory.
The information in this online directory is updated periodically. The availability of physicians, hospitals, providers, and services may change. Information about a practitioner is provided to us by the practitioner or is obtained as part of the credentialing process. If you have questions, please call us at 1-800-464-4000 (toll free). For the hearing and speech impaired: 1-800-464-4000 (toll free) or TTY 711 (toll free). You can also call the Medical Board of California at 916-263-2382, or visit their website.
We want to speak to you in the language that you’re most comfortable with when you call or visit us. Qualified interpreter services, including sign language, are available at no cost, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during all hours of operations at all points of contact. We do not encourage the use of family, friends or minors as interpreters. Only the services of interpreters and qualified staff are used to provide language assistance. These may include bilingual providers, staff, and healthcare interpreters. In-person, telephone, video, and alternative modes of communication are available. Learn more about interpreter services.
If you would like to report an error in provider or facility information, please contact us.
Medicare Members: To request a hard copy of Kaiser Permanente’s provider directory, please call our Member Services department at 1-800-443-0815, seven days a week, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Kaiser Permanente will mail a hard copy of the provider directory to you within three (3) business days of your request. Kaiser Permanente may ask whether your request for a hard copy is a one-time request or if you are requesting to receive the provider directory in hard copy permanently.
If you request it, your request for hard copies of the provider directory remains until you leave Kaiser Permanente or request that hard copies be discontinued.
Medi-Cal Members: This directory includes Kaiser Permanente’s outpatient pharmacies. You can get any drugs covered by Kaiser Permanente at one of these pharmacies. You can get outpatient drugs covered by Medi-Cal at any Medi-Cal Rx Pharmacy. It does not have to be a Kaiser Permanente network pharmacy. Most Kaiser Permanente network pharmacies are Medi-Cal Rx pharmacies. Your pharmacy can tell you if it is part of the Medi-Cal Rx network. If you want to find a Medi-Cal pharmacy outside of Kaiser Permanente, you can use the Medi-Cal Rx Pharmacy Locator online at www.Medi-CalRx.dhcs.ca.gov. You can also call Medi-Cal Rx Customer Service at 1-800-977-2273, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (TTY 711 Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.).
Medi-Cal Members: Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports services require prior authorization and are limited to members who meet specific eligibility criteria.
Kaiser Permanente enrollees have full and equal access to covered services, including enrollees with disabilities as required under the Federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Kaiser Permanente uses the same quality, member experience, or cost-related measures to select practitioners and facilities in Marketplace Silver-tier plans as it does for all other Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP) products and lines of business. The measures may include, but are not limited to, HEDIS/CAHPS performance, member/patient complaints, patient safety scores, hospital quality measures, and geographic need. Members enrolled in KFHP Marketplace plans have access to all professional, institutional and ancillary health care providers who participate in KFHP plans’ contracted provider network, in accordance with the terms of members’ KFHP plan of coverage. All Kaiser Permanente Medical Group physicians and network physicians are subject to the same quality review processes and certifications.
Kaiser Permanente uses the same geographic distribution consideration to select hospitals in Marketplace plans as it does for all other Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (KFHP) products and lines of business. Accessibility of medical offices and medical centers in this directory: All Kaiser Permanente facilities are accessible to members.
This page was last updated on: 12/10/2024