Background
Lewis, David Carleton was born on May 19, 1935 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Theodore and Lillian (Levin) Lewis.
Lewis, David Carleton was born on May 19, 1935 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Theodore and Lillian (Levin) Lewis.
AB magna cum laude, Brown University, 1957. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1961.
Intern, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, 1961-1962;
junior resident, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, 1962-1963;
chief medical resident, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, 1966-1967;
director emergency unit and medical outpatient department, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, 1969-1971;
senior resident, U. Hospitals Cleveland, 1963-1964;
senior resident, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, 1964-1966;
fellow, University Texas Southwestern Medical Hospital, Dallas, 1964-1966;
Sloan Foundation fellow, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1971-1972;
medical director, Washingtonian Center for Addictions, Boston, 1972-1977;
director division alcohol and substance abuse, Roger Williams General Hospital, Providence, since 1976;
director program in alcoholism and drug abuse, Brown U., Providence, 1976-1982;
professor medicine and community health, Brown U., Providence, since 1982;
Donald G. Millar professor alcohol and addiction studies, Brown U., Providence, since 1987;
department chairman community health, Brown U., Providence, 1981-1986;
director Center Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown U., Providence, since 1982. Member of national advisory county National Alcohol Institute, Rockville, Maryland., 1981-1985, consultant to director, since 1985. Member science advisory board Children of Alcoholics Foundation, 1985-1995.
Consultant World Health Organization, since 1986, member WHOcocaine global advising committee, 1992-1995. Chair Physician Consortium on Substance Abuse Education, since 1989. Member Carnegie Substance Abuse Advisory committee, 1989-1992.
Scholar-in-residence National Institute Medical, 1991-1992. Member of advisory panel to the United States Pharmacopoeia, since 1995. Member Drug Strategies National Advisory Panel, since 1994, director World Health Organization Collaborating Ctr.at Brown U., 1995.
Member of national advising committee Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fighting Back program, since 1996. Project director physician leadership National Drug Policy, since 1997.
Medical director Beacon Hill Free Clinic, Boston, 1968-1971. Chairman Mayor's Council on Drug Abuse, Boston, 1972-1980. Board directors Drug Policy Foundation, since 1995, National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, since 1995, American Society Addiction Medical, 1995, American Academy on Physicians and Patient, 1998.
Project director Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy, since 1997. Fellow American College of Physicians. Member NAS, Institute Medicine Study on Treatment Alcohol Problems, Association Medical Edition and Research in Substance Abuse (president 1983-1988, Excellence in Medicine award 1986), American Society Addiction Medicine (chair section on internal medicine since 1990, board directors since 1995), United States Pharmacopea (member of advisory panel), Brown Medical Alumni Association (president 1974-1976), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Eleanor Grace Levinson, August 23, 1959. Children: Deborah, Steven.