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Evelyn L. Lewis M.D., M.A., FAAFP

Dr. Lewis is a consultant with Strategies for Tomorrow specializing in healthcare disparities and the amelioration of these disparities through health information exchange.

Dr. Lewis is nationally and internationally recognized for her expertise in the areas of cultural competency and healthcare disparities. During her tenure at the Uniformed Services University, she was awarded a Project EXPORT grant from the NIH Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities and served as the Principal Investigator for this grant. She has employed her expertise in cultural competency and healthcare disparities to increase:

• patients’ awareness of diseases and treatments,
• physicians’ awareness of the special needs of minority populations,
• the number of minority health care professionals, and
• minority populations’ access to quality and equity in health care

In achieving these goals she has worked with such organizations as the Black Ministers Council, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), CBC Health Brain Trust, National Medical Association, National Black Caucus of State Legislators, NAACP, National Urban League, American Academy of Family Physicians, National Medical Association, National Hispanic Medical Association, American Osteopathic Association, Black Nurses Association, various hospital systems, and the American Medical Association Commission to End Health Disparities.

Dr. Lewis is currently a Medical Policy Director for Pfizer, Inc. and also serves as a Consultant Principal Investigator, Uniformed Services University (USU) Center for Health Disparities. Her professional and research interests include health and healthcare disparities, clinical trials and minority participation, adolescent medicine, weight management (obesity and overweight), cultural proficiency and women’s health care delivery.

Dr. Lewis earned her medical degree from the University of the Health Sciences, The Chicago Medical School and completed a residency in family practice at Naval Hospital Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL. She also completed a two-year faculty development fellowship at Madigan Army Medical Center and Pacific Lutheran University with a Masters degree in the Social and Behavioral sciences.

Her many significant honors include membership on the editorial board for Journal of Cognitive and Behavioral Practice and receipt of the W.E. Upjohn Award for Innovation (2007); the Career Communications Group, Women of Color Emerald Honor for Medical Education Award (2003); the Uniformed Services University, Office of Recruitment and Diversity, Mentor of the Year Award (1999-2000); and the Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians President’s Award (1999). Dr. Lewis was one of five family physicians featured in the pamphlet “Is Our Health Care System Losing Its Balance?” sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians Research Initiative (1999), and she was one of nine family physicians profiled in the American Academy of Family Physicians 50th Anniversary Book, Caring for America – The Story of Family Practice (1998).