James H. Lewis MD, FACP, FACG, AGAF, FAASLD

Dr. Lewis is Professor of Medicine on the Clinician-Scholar track in the Division of Gastroenterology, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, and Director of Hepatology, Georgetown University Hospital. He is a consulting physician at the Washington, DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center and a former clinical consultant at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. A 1971 graduate of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, he received his M.D. degree in 1975 from the State University of New York Health Sciences Center in Brooklyn.

Following a medical internship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and residency at Kings County Hospital Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, He completed his fellowship training in Gastroenterology at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, DC. where he remained on the faculty until 1985, under the mentorship of Hyman J Zimmerman, MD, with whom he worked for nearly 20 years in the field of drug-induced liver injury. He has been at his present post at Georgetown University Medical Center.