James D. Lewis, MD, MSCE, associate director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia. He is a professor of medicine at Penn Medicine as well as a senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology and American Society for Clinical Investigation. He is also the chair of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America National Scientific Advisory Committee.
Dr. Lewis focuses on colonoscopy, Crohn's disease, inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis and upper endoscopy. He has an active interest in research and directed two NIH-funded clinical trials of novel IBD therapies. His work has been published in a number of prestigious journals, including Inflammatory bowel diseases and Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
Dr. Lewis is also a fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association, where he has previously served on the Immunology, Microbiology and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nominating Committee; and the AGA Institute Clinical Practice and Quality Management Committee. He is a member of the International Organization for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Dr. Lewis earned his medical degree at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia and completed his residency at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital. He completed his fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
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