Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Field Epidemiology Unit
1600 Clifton Rd
Altanta,
GA
USA
30333
Email:
felicia.lewis@phila.gov
Biographical Sketch:
Medical Epidemiologist, Field Epidemiology Unit, Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, and Philadelphia PA, January 2008 – present.
o Perform epidemiologic analysis of STD data for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
o Treat STD-infected high school students in the field as part of health department-run, citywide screening initiative
o Diagnose and treat patients in city-run STD clinics
o Provide infectious disease and STD consultation to clinical practitioners in the community
o Design, draft program initiatives, and acquire funds through grant-writing for local STD program
o Collaborate with members of Field Epidemiology Unit on multi-site studies and projects
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, June 2007 – present.
o Participate in departmental educational activities
o Provide inpatient infectious disease consult expertise to surgical, medical services caring for diverse veteran population
Medical Epidemiologist, Acute Communicable Diseases and Emerging Infections, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA,
July 2006 – December 2007.
o Managed multiple infectious disease outbreaks including multistate food-bourne outbreaks and MRSA outbreaks in local colleges
o Developed and initiated heightened surveillance for enteric disease in infants
o Provided infectious disease expertise to local stakeholders, including health care workers, journalists, and the public
o Supervised University of Pennsylvania Infectious Disease Fellow in his yearlong research project
o Taught statewide seminar on emerging Clostridium difficile infection at Pennsylvania Public Health Institute: Modern Plagues Seminar, State College, PA, May 24, 2006.
Supervising Medical Field Officer, Safety and efficacy of gentamicin versus streptomycin for the treatment of naturally occurring human plague and the evaluation of rapid diagnostic test kits for Yersinia pestis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, November 8, 2005 – January 14, 2006.
o Provided on-site infectious disease and internal medicine consultation, data analysis, logistics, organization, and supervision for medical trial taking place in the central highlands of Madagascar.
Internal Medicine Physician (temporary), Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, Deschapelles, Haiti, October – November 2000.
o Provided emergency, ambulatory, and inpatient care
Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, July 2004 – June 2006.
o Based in Acute Communicable Diseases Division, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA
o Led investigation of emerging phenomenon of community-acquired C. difficile disease; subsequent MMWR one of the first publications in the United States to describe entity
o Led investigations of laboratory-acquired Vaccinia infection, 2 norovirus outbreaks, and an MRSA infection in a local university
o One of primary investigators in national investigations of contaminated products such as Ralstonia-contaminated device and Fusarium-contaminated contact lens solution
o Coordinated local public health surveillance of Hurricane Katrina evacuees relocated to Philadelphia
o Worked as supervising field medical officer on clinical trial involving human subjects infected with bubonic plague in Madagascar as above
Fellowship, Infectious Disease, Yale University, New Haven, CT, July 2001 – June 2004.
o Provided clinical care for adult infectious disease patients, leading to Board Certification
o Provided continuity care for adult HIV patients, St. Raphael’s Hospital, New Haven, CT
o Taught residents and medical students on infectious disease rotations
o Primary Preceptor, Doctor-Patient Encounter Course for Yale medical students, Yale University 2003-2004
Internship and Residency, Internal Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, July 1998 – June 2001.
o Provided clinical care for adult internal medicine patients, leading to Board Certification
o Provided continuity ambulatory care at Dartmouth Hitchcock and White River Junction VAMC
ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS
1. Asbel L, Anschuetz G, Lewis FMT et al. Rectal Chlamydia testing among MSM attending an STD clinic. To be presented at the American Public Health Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 9, 2009.
2. Lewis FMT et al. Needle in a Haystack – Role of outreach screening at 5 US sites, 2000-2007. Presented at International Society for STD Research annual meeting, London, England, June 2009.
3. Bruno C et al incl. Lewis FMT. Analysis of salmonellosis incidence in Philadelphia and geographic association with poverty rates, 2000-2005. Presented at Infectious Disease Society of America annual meeting, San Diego, October 2007 (senior supervising author).
4. Madera R, Lewis FMT et al. Association between relative humidity and incidence of sporadic legionellosis cases in Philadelphia, 2006. Presented at the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists annual meeting, Atlantic City, June 2007.
5. Bruno C, Madera R, Lewis FMT et al. Analysis of salmonellosis incidence in Philadelphia and geographic association with poverty rates, 2000-2005. Presented at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Public Health Session, Philadelphia, May 2007.