Prostate Cancer Survivor, Veteran, PHEN Ambassador
Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina
Lee H. Moultrie II is a prostate cancer survivor (8 years) and a retired U.S. Air Force veteran. He served from 1994 during the Desert Storm and Desert Shield era. Lee is the PHEN Ambassador in North Charleston, South Carolina for the state of South Carolina. He is also the Ambassador for the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina and the University of Florida Health—Proton Therapy Institute in Jacksonville, Florida. Both institutions are National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers.
Further, he is a member of the Medical University of South Carolina – Hollings Cancer Center on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee as well as a committee member and past executive board member of the South Carolina Cancer Alliance.
A few other healthcare advocacy committees that Lee is part of include the Patient and Family Experience of Roper Hospital, the Patient and Family Advisory Council of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina, and the In Our DNA Project of the Medical University of South Carolina. Further, Lee Moultrie is a Legislative Ambassador volunteering with the American Cancer Society and Zero Cancer.
In 2007, he was nominated for the Jefferson Award for Community Service and appeared in the 2008 Aetna African American History Calendar, which had the theme Health Literacy: A Dose of Understanding. Lee’s perspectives are included in several publications, such as a paper published in the Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association in 2006 before he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. The paper’s title is Prostate Cancer Disparities in South Carolina: Two Generations Talking From a Male’s Perspective. By 2015, Lee was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Lee is also the CEO and Founder of www.choosetoliveformen.org. He is a regular contributor to the local newspaper with his health perspectives published in the Letters to the Editor section. Lastly, Lee was one of several participants in the very first PHEN Summit in Washington, DC in 2005.