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Director, Community Based Education Program
1968 B.S., University of Iowa
1968-69 Graduate Studies, University of Iowa
1973 M.Phil., Sociology, Yale University
Trained as a medical sociologist, she developed one of the first school based health clinic programs in the U.S., and has devoted her professional work to improving maternal and child health and community based health profession education. She has developed partnerships with many community programs both in the Greater Hartford area and internationally, at the Universities of Peradenyia (Sri Lanka), Antwerp (Belgium), Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica as well as NGOs such as the Haitian Health Foundation, IHCAI (International Health Central American Institute, Costa Rica), and BOCED (Buguruka Orphan and Community Economic Development Tanzania). She has served as President of the International Health Medical Education Consortium (IHMEC) and as a board member of IHCAI and BOCED. She has held leadership roles in the Group on Educational Affairs of the Association of American Medical Colleges, was President of the Connecticut Public Health Association and the Adolescent Health Council, and is Co-Chair of the International Health Committee of the Maternal and Child Health Section of the American Public Health Association.
Teaching and Research; Director of the Community Based Education Program in the Medical School
Professor Lewis is a practicum instructor in the Graduate Program in Public Health and supervises independent research projects. She also serves as an advisor to MPH students.
Professor Lewis's research interests include medical sociology, maternal and child health, community health, and medical education.
Seifer, S., Lewis, J. and Hermanns, K. eds. Creating Community-Responsive Physicians:Service-Learning in Medical Education, American Association of Higher Education, 1999.
Lewis, J. "University of Connecticut School of Medicine: An Urban Partnership" in Seifer S., Lewis, J. and Hermanns, K. eds. Creating Community-Responsive Physicians: Service-Learning in Medical Education, American Association of Higher Education, 1999.
Beatty, M. and Lewis, J., "Inaccurate Medical Student Introductions: Frequency and Motivation," Connecticut Medicine 59 (9): 455-460, 1995.
Beatty, M. and Lewis J., "Why Students Introduce Themselves as Doctors to Patients," Academic Medicine 70 (3): 175-176, 1995.
Peeters, R., Silva, K.T., and Lewis, J. "Results from the Triangle Programme: Collaboration in Community Health," Social Science and Medicine 40 (4): 425-430, 1995.
Sivayoganathan, C., Gnanachandran, S., Lewis, J., and Fernando, M. "Protective Measure Use and Symptoms among Agropesticide Workers in Sri Lanka," Social Science and Medicine 40 (4): 431-436, 1995.
Community-Based Education Program
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue, MC 1925
Farmington, CT 06030-1925
Phone: (860) 679-3458
Fax: (860) 679-1097
Email:
lewisj@nso.uchc.edu
Judy Lewis