About Dr. Zoë A. Lewis:
Active in both physician and community education on Alzheimer's disease and end-of-life care for more than 15 years, Dr. Lewis has presented for Medical Grand Rounds, State and National level conferences, and at skilled nursing facilities and nursing and medical schools across the country. In 2009, she was one of many chosen faculty speakers in her area of expertise, 'dementia and hospice care', for the National Council on Aging. and has presented in the past for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization on volunteer service in hospice.
Dr. Lewis has numerous publications to her credit,and stays involved through national and international medical and hospice and palliative care organizations. She is the producer and host of her internet radio show - 'Hospice Radio' on blogtalkradio.This public service venture has no commercial bias and is an interview-based program discussing topics in the field of hospice and palliative care and aging with international experts as guests.
Zoë A. Lewis M.D. FACP, DAAHPM (Doctora en Medicina, diplomada por la Academia Norteamericana de Cuidados de Hospicio y Medicina Paliativa (DAAHPM), miembro electo del Colegio de Médicos Norteamericano (FACP). Completó su práctica y residencia en el Sistema de Salud de la Universidad de Pensilvania en Filadelfia, Pensilvania. Certificada por el consejo en medicina Interna, cuidados paliativos y de hospicio. Diplomada por la Academia Norteamericana de Cuidados de Hospicio y Medicina Paliativa (DAAHPM), es miembro electo del Colegio de Médicos Norteamericano (FACP). Ha ocupado cargos de enseñanza académica de medicina clínica en la Universidad de Pensilvania, en Tufts University y en la Facultad de Medicina de Harvard.
ACTIVITIES & PROJECTS:
Dr. Lewis is an internist, hospice physician,author, consultant, radio show producer and host and national speaker. She is actively promoting her books, "I Hope They Know: The Essential Handbook of Alzheimer’s Disease and Care," and "La Guía Holística para la Enfermedad de Alzheimer". She appears for community service grassroots outreach, often by invitation from the Alzheimer's Association local chapters at a variety of venues.
Dr. Lewis is an internist, hospice physician,author, consultant, radio show producer and host and national speaker. She is actively promoting her books, "I Hope They Know: The Essential Handbook of Alzheimer’s Disease and Care," and "La Guía Holística para la Enfermedad de Alzheimer". She appears for community service grassroots outreach, often by invitation from the Alzheimer's Association local chapters at a variety of venues.
"Keep Your Wits! Seasoning For Reasoning”, is her current research project. This is book for Alzheimer Disease Prevention, looking at diet and exercise as possible strategies for prevention.
Hope Through Knowledge Resources is a Miami Beach, Florida, privately funded grassroots semi-volunteer coalition, operating as a national web-based resource with newsletter and internet radio program serving as a focus on aging, dementia care and end-of-life care issues. The focus of the community outreach is to meet the needs of consumers, the general public and service providers by describing an array of existing services, programs and resources for the general public.
In Florida, programs such as the Alliance on Aging, the Department of Elder Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services, and other key organizations have set strategic goals to consider alternative methods of disseminating information to promote and publicize elder need and care services. By using low cost methods such as a internet based radio program, newsletters, website, public lectures and book donations, the organization Hope Through Knowledge Resources has contributed to the increased awareness offering numerous strategies to relieve families of some of the caregiver burdens for elders- in-need, while reducing financial burdens on the community with timely interventions.
Another project which she began in 2008, Hospice Radio, on Blogtalkradio, now has a solid listener base of thousands worldwide. Her broadcast is a one-hour interview- based program on end-of-life care issues serving an international English-speaking audience. Guests are world-renowned experts focusing on topics that will educate listeners of any age or background on the delivery of end-of-life care. Each guest has made a commitment to provide information without commercial bias about their area of expertise and follow-up with support through linked websites. Dr. Lewis says, " I keep getting notifications of new links for my program as podcast downloads worldwide, and that is encouraging, means we are sending the right message to folks who are listening."
Previous guests:
Harry R. Moody, Director of Academic Affairs for AARP
Pamela Grace, PhD, RNCS, ANP,Boston College
Judi Lund Pearson, Vice President of Regulatory and State Leadership for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Rabbi Dr. Maurice Lamm, The National Institute for Jewish Hospice and New York Times Best Selling Author
Jennifer Block, Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, California
Kenneth W. Goodman, Ph.D., co-director of the University of Miami’s Ethics Programs, director of the Ethics Programs' World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Ethics and Global Health Policy
Ann Armstong- Dailey founder of CHILDREN'S HOSPICE INTERNATIONAL
Stan Goldberg, author, Professor Emeritus of Communicative Disorders at San Francisco State University
Fanny Barry, founder, That Barry Girl Foundation
And others
Education:
Zoë A. Lewis, M.D., FACP, DAAHPM, holds a Bachelor of Arts with Departmental Honors in Biology,Temple University, Philadelphia and a Medical Doctorate,Summa Cum Laude, University Of Rome School of Medicine, ‘La Sapienza’, Italy. Her graduate medical thesis research on melanoma was published in Oncology, 1993 (50).
Her internship and residency training were completed at the University of Pennsylvania Healthcare System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She is a diplomat of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, (DAAHPM) and was elected as Fellow in the American College of Physicians, (FACP). She has held academic clinical internal medicine teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Tufts University and Harvard School of Medicine.
Scholarships:
During her residency at Pennsylvania Hospital she was awarded a six-week scholarship for independent elective study at the Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Department of Infectious Disease Parasitology and Tropical Medicine. From her research she published, "Another Hazard in Food: Helminthic Parasites." Patient Care Magazine 1997:31(9)60-72.
National Recognition:
Dr. Lewis is the former Corporate Medical Director for Beacon Hospice, Inc. in New England. She received specific acknowledgement for her leadership efforts by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in their 2006 guide, Caring for Persons with Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias, Guidelines for Hospice Providers. (Her specific work is cited on page 8).
NHPCO Article (link)
In addition, Dr.Lewis is also the former Assistant Medical Director for the Caritas Good Samaritan Hospice, also of Boston, and a former hospice team medical director for Vitas Healthcare in Broward County, Florida. Dr. Lewis led the initiative to implement the first hospital-based physician palliative care consultation service for St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center of the Caritas Christi Healthcare System in Boston.
She has provided primary care and internal medicine services at Brigham and Women’s Physician Group - partnered with Harvard School of Medicine, and for patients in the Caritas Christi Healthcare System, affiliated with Tufts School of Medicine, both of Boston, MA. Currently she is a locum tenens medical physician and works as a hospitalist providing acute care medicine in Massahcusetts and Florida.
Personal Interests:
Her personal interests often reflected in her work include, yoga, photography, travel, ( 39 countries, 116 cities and counting). Her poetry was published by Lulu - "Poetic Penumbra" ISBN: 978-1-4357-1676-6, available at the Miami International Book Fair through the SFWA in 2009.
Speaking Engagements:
Speaking fees upon request.
Consultation Services:
Dr. Lewis is available for expert opinion on end-of-life care, hospice care, dementia, and Alzheimer's disease. She is also currently working as a case management, peer review consultant for hospice programs. Active medical state licenses in Massachusetts and Florida. Fees upon consultation.