Michelle H. Lewis, JD, MD is currently a Clinical Scholar in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. She received her BA in English and History from Stanford University, and her JD from Vanderbilt University School of Law. Pursuing an interest in health policy, she completed Pre-medical and Post-baccalaureate programs at Georgetown University and received her MD from Tulane University School of Medicine. Dr. Lewis completed her residency in Pediatrics at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She has worked on President Clinton’s White House Task Force on Health Care Reform as a health policy analyst for the White House Domestic Policy Council, as an intern at the Office of the District Attorney General, Child Support Enforcement Division in Nashville, TN, and as a Research Associate at the Institute for Health Care Research and Policy in Washington, DC. She has published abstracts and presented on the topic of informed decision-making in newborn screening, and has a manuscript in preparation to be published in a law review journal. During her Fellowship, she plans to continue her current research on the use of stored tissue samples, and work on project using secondary data analysis to explore the ability of primary care physicians to interpret genetic test results. |
