Frank Lewis

Dr. Frank Lewis received his BA in physics from Princeton University and his medical degree from the University of Maryland Medical School. He completed an internship at San Francisco General Hospital and a general surgery residency at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Lewis then completed an NIH fellowship in trauma with his mentor Dr. William Blaisdell, who founded the first trauma center in the country in San Francisco in 1966.

Dr. Lewis served as a faculty member at UC San Francisco from 1973-1992, rising from Assistant Professor to Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Surgery, and Chief of Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital. From 1992-2002 he served as Chair of the Department of Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Lewis recently completed a 15-year term (2002-2017) as executive director of the American Board of Surgery (ABS).