Blair S. Lewis,
M.D.
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,
F.A.C.P.,
F.A.C.G., (born November 23, 1956 in
Hartford, Connecticut
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) is an American
board-certified
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gastroenterologist
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and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City. It is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sinai Health System, which manages eigh ...
. Lewis is a specialist in the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy and was the primary investigator for the first clinical trial of
capsule endoscopy
Capsule endoscopy is a medical procedure used to record internal images of the gastrointestinal tract for use in disease diagnosis. Newer developments are also able to take biopsies and release medication at specific locations of the entire ...
for the small intestine and also the first clinical trial of capsule endoscopy for the colon.
Biography
Lewis graduated from
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...
in 1978 and earned his medical degree from
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a research-intensive medical school located in the Morris Park neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City. Founded in 1953, Einstein operates as an independent degree-granting institution as part of t ...
in 1982. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at
Montefiore Medical Center
Montefiore Medical Center is a premier academic medical center and the primary teaching hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York City. Its main campus, the Henry and Lucy Moses Division, is located in the Norwoo ...
in 1985 and his fellowship in Gastroenterology at
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Mount Sinai Hospital, formerly at times known as Mount Sinai Medical Center, is a 319-bed major urban hospital in Chicago, Illinois, with its main campus located adjacent to Douglass Park at 15th Street and California Avenue on the city's West Si ...
in 1987. Lewis was appointed Clinical Professor of Medicine in 2002 at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he continues to teach today.
He co-chairs the International Conference of Capsule Endoscopy and coordinated the Consensus Conference statements to guide capsule usage. He is past president of the New York Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and New York Academy of Gastroenterology and has served on the board of the
American College of Gastroenterology
The American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) is a Bethesda, Maryland–based medical association of gastroenterologists.
The association was founded in 1932 and holds annual meetings and regional postgraduate continuing education courses, est ...
. Lewis has written over 72 scientific papers and 27 chapters and he has authored 3 books; all in the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy. He co-authored the technical document behind the
American Gastroenterological Association
The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) is a medical association of gastroenterologists. Approximately 16,000 scientists and physicians are members of the organization.
Overview
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's position statement concerning occult and obscure gastrointestinal bleeding and the ICCE consensus statement for clinical application of capsule endoscopy. He also helped develop a scoring index for inflammatory bowel disease seen on capsule endoscopy.
Lewis has published widely on gastroenterological research and co-authored multiple books including
''Gastroenterology for the House Officer''(1989)
''Flexible Sigmoidoscopy''(1996), ''Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America; Enteroscopy'' (1999), an
(2010). He also holds editorial positions at multiple medical journals including: ''Gastroenterology'', ''Digestive Diseases and Sciences'', ''American Journal of Gastroenterology'', ''Gastrointestinal Endoscopy'', ''Southern Medical Journal'', ''Endoscopy'', ''Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology'', and ''The Medical Letter''.
Honors and awards
Lewis received the Distinguished Service Award from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1996; Gastroenterology Divisional Award from Mount Sinai in 1989; Leo M. Davidoff Society Award from Montefiore Hospital in 1983; the
Sigma Xi
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Award for Undergraduate Research in 1978 from Dartmouth College; High Distinction in Biology in 1978 from Dartmouth College; and was a Rufus Choate Scholar at Dartmouth College in 1977.
He is listed as one of the 75 Best Gastroenterologists in America in 2010, and also as one of the 125 Leading Gastroenterologists in 2011 by Becker's ASC Review. CastleConnolly.com names him in the Best Doctors of America and the Best 100 Doctors in Manhattan lists. He has also been listed as one of the top 5% of New York City doctors by SuperDoctors.com for the years 2008–2011. He has received the Patient's Choice Award for two successive years by PatientsChoice.org.
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References
External links
The Mount Sinai Hospital homepageThe Mount Sinai School of Medicine homepage
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American gastroenterologists
American medical academics
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty
Albert Einstein College of Medicine alumni
Dartmouth College alumni
People from Hartford, Connecticut
1956 births
Living people