Blair Lewis Explained

Blair Lewis
Birth Date:23 November 1956
Birth Place:Hartford, Connecticut
Profession:Gastroenterology
Known For:Capsule endoscopy
Work Institutions:Mount Sinai Medical Center
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Blair S. Lewis, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.G., (born November 23, 1956, in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American board-certified gastroenterologist and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.[1] Lewis is a specialist in the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy and was the primary investigator for the first clinical trial of capsule endoscopy for the small intestine and also the first clinical trial of capsule endoscopy for the colon.[2]

Biography

Lewis graduated from Dartmouth College in 1978 and earned his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1982. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in 1985 and his fellowship in Gastroenterology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in 1987. Lewis was appointed Clinical Professor of Medicine in 2002 at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he continues to teach today.

He co-chairs the International Conference of Capsule Endoscopy[3] and coordinated the Consensus Conference statements to guide capsule usage. He is past president of the New York Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and New York Academy of Gastroenterology and has served on the board of the American College of Gastroenterology. Lewis has written scientific papers and has authored 3 books; all in the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy. He co-authored the technical document behind the American Gastroenterological Association's position statement concerning occult and obscure gastrointestinal bleeding and the ICCE consensus statement[4] for clinical application of capsule endoscopy. He also helped develop a scoring index for inflammatory bowel disease seen on capsule endoscopy.[5]

Lewis has published widely on gastroenterological research and co-authored multiple books including: Gastroenterology for the House Officer (1989), Flexible Sigmoidoscopy (1996), Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America; Enteroscopy (1999), and Capsule Endoscopy Simplified (2010). He also holds editorial positions at multiple medical journals including: Gastroenterology, Digestive Diseases and Sciences, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Southern Medical Journal, Endoscopy, Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, and The Medical Letter.

Honors and awards

He is listed as one of the 75 Best Gastroenterologists in America in 2010,[6] and also as one of the 125 Leading Gastroenterologists in 2011[7] by Becker's ASC Review. CastleConnolly.com names him in the Best Doctors of America and the Best 100 Doctors in Manhattan lists. He has also been listed as one of the top 5% of New York City doctors by SuperDoctors.com for the years 2008–2011.[8] He has received the Patient's Choice Award for two successive years by PatientsChoice.org.[9]

Publications

  1. 10.1016/S0016-5107(87)71682-4 . Total small bowel enteroscopy . 1987 . Lewis . B . Waye . J . Gastrointestinal Endoscopy . 33 . 6 . 435–8 . 3443262.
  2. 3341333 . 1988 . Waye . JD . Lewis . BS . Frankel . A . Geller . SA . Small colon polyps . 83 . 2 . 120–2 . The American Journal of Gastroenterology.
  3. 10.1097/00003246-198801000-00013 . Use of percutaneous gastrostomy in the intensive care patient . 1988 . Kelly . Kathleen M. . Lewis . Blair . Gentili . David R. . Benjamin . Ernest . Waye . Jerome D. . Iberti . Thomas J. . Critical Care Medicine . 16 . 62–3 . 3123141 . 1.
  4. 3258259 . 1988 . Lewis . BS . Waye . JD . Chronic gastrointestinal bleeding of obscure origin: Role of small bowel enteroscopy . 94 . 5 Pt 1 . 1117–20 . Gastroenterology. 10.1016/0016-5085(88)90001-7 . free .
  5. 3293429 . 1988 . Lewis . BS . Waye . JD . Small bowel enteroscopy in 1988: Pros and cons . 83 . 8 . 799–802 . The American Journal of Gastroenterology.
  6. Waye . JD . Lewis . BS . Gastrointestinal bleeding: the small bowel, a diagnostic approach . Ital J Gastroenterol . 1988 . 20 . 74–7.
  7. 3266303 . 1988 . Lewis . BS . Waye . JD . Khilnani . MT . Biller . HF . Fibrovascular polyp of the esophagus . 55 . 4 . 324–5 . The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, New York.
  8. 10.1007/BF01660721 . The lost polyp: A guide to retrieval during colonoscopy . 1988 . Waye . J. D. . Lewis . B. S. . Atchison . M. A. . Talbott . M. . International Journal of Colorectal Disease . 3 . 4 . 229–31 . 3198994. 7838007 .
  9. 10.1016/S0016-5107(89)72682-1 . Diazepam versus midazolam (versed) in outpatient colonoscopy: A double-blind randomized study☆ . 1989 . Lewis . B . Shlien . R . Waye . J . Knight . R . Aldoroty . R . Gastrointestinal Endoscopy . 35 . 33–6 . 2920882 . 1.
  10. 2914639 . 1989 . MacDermott . RP . Nash . GS . Auer . IO . Shlien . R . Lewis . BS . Madassery . J . Nahm . MH . Alterations in serum immunoglobulin G subclasses in patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease . 96 . 3 . 764–8 . Gastroenterology. 10.1016/0016-5085(89)90899-8.
  11. 10.1055/s-2007-1012926 . The Hairy Polyp: A Benign Teratoma of the Colon . 2008 . Mauer . K. . Waye . J. D. . Lewis . B. S. . Szporn . A. H. . Endoscopy . 21 . 3 . 2743946 . 148–51.
  12. 10.1016/S0016-5107(90)70969-8 . The rapid placement of jejunal feeding tubes: The Setdinger technique applied to the gut . 1990 . Lewis . B . Mauer . K . Bush . A . Gastrointestinal Endoscopy . 36 . 2 . 139–41 . 2110541.
  13. 2252035 . 1990 . Lewis . BS . Kornbluth . A . Hormonal therapy for bleeding from angiodysplasia: Chronic renal failure, et al?? . 85 . 12 . 1649–51 . The American Journal of Gastroenterology.
  14. 2237722 . 1990 . Biener . A . Palestro . C . Lewis . BS . Katz . LB . Intraoperative scintigraphy for active small intestinal bleeding . 171 . 5 . 388–92 . Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics.
  15. 2403953 . 1990 . O'Brien . MJ . Winawer . SJ . Zauber . AG. Ann Zauber . Gottlieb . LS . Sternberg . SS . Diaz . B . Dickersin . GR . Ewing . S . Geller . S . Kasimian . D . The National Polyp Study. Patient and polyp characteristics associated with high-grade dysplasia in colorectal adenomas . 98 . 2 . 371–9 . Gastroenterology. 8 . 10.1016/0016-5085(90)90827-N . free .
  16. 10.1016/S0016-5107(91)70673-1 . The technique of abdominal pressure in total colonoscopy . 1991 . Waye . J . Yessayan . S . Lewis . B . Fabry . T . Gastrointestinal Endoscopy . 37 . 2 . 147–51 . 2032597.
  17. 1992630 . 1991 . Lewis . BS . Wenger . JS . Waye . JD . Small bowel enteroscopy and intraoperative enteroscopy for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding . 86 . 2 . 171–4 . The American Journal of Gastroenterology.
  18. 10.1136/gut.32.7.763 . Small bowel tumours: Yield of enteroscopy . 1991 . Lewis . B S . Kornbluth . A . Waye . J D . Gut . 32 . 7 . 763–5 . 1855682 . 1378992.
  19. 10.1016/S0016-5107(91)70828-6 . Marked endoscopic gastrostomy tubes permit one-pass Ponsky technique . 1991 . Aisenberg . J . Cohen . L . Lewis . B . Gastrointestinal Endoscopy . 37 . 5 . 552–3 . 1936835.
  20. 10.1016/S0016-5107(92)70333-2 . Diagnostic and therapeutic jejunoscopy with a new, longer enteroscope . 1992 . Barkin . J . Lewis . B . Reiner . D . Waye . J . Goldberg . R . Phillips . R . Gastrointestinal Endoscopy . 38 . 55–8 . 1612382 . 1. free .
  21. 10.1097/00004836-199209000-00004 . Does Hormonal Therapy Have Any Benefit for Bleeding Angiodysplasia? . 1992 . Lewis . Blair S. . Salomon . Peter . Rivera-Macmurray . Suzette . Kornbluth . Asher A. . Wenger . Jeffrey . Waye . Jerome D. . Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology . 15 . 2 . 99–103 . 1328358. free .
  22. 10.1016/0002-9610(92)90258-S . Surgical approach to occult gastrointestinal bleeding . 1992 . Szold . Amir . Katz . Lester B. . Lewis . Blair S. . The American Journal of Surgery . 163 . 1733379 . 90–2; discussion 92–3 . 1.
  23. 10.1016/S0016-5107(92)70376-9 . Colonoscopy and endoscopic therapy for delayed post-polypectomy hemorrhage . 1992 . Rex . D . Lewis . B . Waye . J . Gastrointestinal Endoscopy . 38 . 2 . 127–9 . 1568607.
  24. 10.1097/00004836-199212000-00018 . Colonoscopy . 1992 . Waye . Jerome D. . Lewis . Blair S. . Yessayan . Siroun . Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology . 15 . 4 . 347–51 . 1294644.
  25. 7977229 . 1994 . Berner . JS . Mauer . K . Lewis . BS . Push and sonde enteroscopy for the diagnosis of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding . 89 . 12 . 2139–42 . The American Journal of Gastroenterology.
  26. 10.1016/S0016-5107(96)70195-5 . Push enteroscopic cauterization: Long-term follow-up of 83 patients with bleeding small intestinal angiodysplasia . 1996 . Askin . M . Lewis . B . Gastrointestinal Endoscopy . 43 . 6 . 580–3 . 8781937.
  27. 10.1097/00000658-199804000-00007. Comparison of Primary and Reoperative Surgery in Patients with Crohns Disease . 1998 . Heimann . Tomas M. . Greenstein . Adrian J. . Lewis . Blair . Kaufman . Dan . Heimann . David M. . Aufses . Arthur H. . Annals of Surgery . 227 . 4 . 492–5 . 9563535 . 1191302.
  28. 10.1016/S0016-5107(98)70198-1 . Enteroliths in a Kock continent ileostomy: Endoscopic diagnosis and management . 1998 . Geller . Alex . Clain . Jonathan E. . Lewis . Blair S. . Gostout . Christopher J. . Gastrointestinal Endoscopy . 48 . 3 . 306–8 . 9744612.
  29. 10.1016/S0016-5085(00)70430-6 . AGA technical review on the evaluation and management of occult and obscure gastrointestinal bleeding . 2000 . Zuckerman . Gary R. . Prakash . Chandra . Askin . Matthew P. . Lewis . Blair S. . Gastroenterology . 118 . 201–21 . 10611170 . 1.
  30. 10.1016/S0016-5107(02)70037-0 . Capsule endoscopy in the evaluation of patients with suspected small intestinal bleeding: Results of a pilot study☆ . 2002 . Lewis . Blair S. . Swain . Paul . Gastrointestinal Endoscopy . 56 . 3 . 349–53 . 12196771.
  31. 10.1089/109350702760301411 . Economic and Health Outcomes of Capsule Endoscopy: Opportunities for Improved Management of the Diagnostic Process for Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding . 2002 . Goldfarb . Neil I. . Phillips . Amy . Conn . Mitchell . Lewis . Blair S. . Nash . David B. . Disease Management . 5 . 3 . 123–35.
  32. 10.1046/j.1365-2036.2003.01556.x . The advent of capsule endoscopy - a not-so-futuristic approach to obscure gastrointestinal bleeding . 2003 . Lewis . B. . Goldfarb . N. . Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics . 17 . 9 . 12752345 . 1085–96. free .
  33. 10.1089/dis.2004.7.292 . Diagnosing Crohn's Disease: An Economic Analysis Comparing Wireless Capsule Endoscopy with Traditional Diagnostic Procedures . 2004 . Goldfarb . Neil I. . Pizzi . Laura T. . Fuhr . Joseph P. . Salvador . Christopher . Sikirica . Vanja . Kornbluth . Asher . Lewis . Blair . Disease Management . 7 . 4 . 292–304 . 15671786.
  34. 10.1016/S1542-3565(04)00619-6 . Video capsule endoscopy to prospectively assess small bowel injury with celecoxib, naproxen plus omeprazole, and placebo . 2005 . Goldstein . Jay L. . Eisen . Glenn M. . Lewis . Blair . Gralnek . Ian M. . Zlotnick . Steve . Fort . John G. . Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology . 3 . 2 . 133–41 . 15704047. free .
  35. 10.1055/s-2005-870353 . A Pooled Analysis to Evaluate Results of Capsule Endoscopy Trials . 2005 . Lewis . B. S. . Eisen . G. M. . Friedman . S. . Endoscopy . 37 . 10 . 960–5 . 16189768.
  36. 10.1097/01.mcg.0000170764.29202.24 . A Prospective Study of the Diagnostic Accuracy of PillCam ESO Esophageal Capsule Endoscopy Versus Conventional Upper Endoscopy in Patients with Chronic Gastroesophageal Reflux Diseases . 2005 . Eliakim . Rami . Sharma . Virender K . Yassin . Kamel . Adler . Samuel N . Jacob . Harold . Cave . David R . Sachdev . Ritu . Mitty . Roger D . Hartmann . Dirk . Schilling . Dieter . Riemann . Jurgen F . Bar-Meir . Simon . Bardan . Eytan . Fennerty . Brian . Eisen . Glenn . Faigel . Douglas . Lewis . Blair S . Fleischer . David E . Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology . 39 . 7 . 572–8 . 16000923. 21593231 . 8 .
  37. 10.1002/cncr.21975 . Increased diagnostic yield of small bowel tumors with capsule endoscopy . 2006 . Cobrin . Gena M. . Pittman . Robert H. . Lewis . Blair S. . Cancer . 107 . 22–7 . 16736516 . 1. free .
  38. The Risk of Retention of the Capsule Endoscope in Patients with Known or Suspected Crohn's Disease . 2006 . Cheifetz . Adam S. . Kornbluth . Asher A. . Legnani . Peter . Schmelkin . Ira . Brown . Alphonso . Lichtiger . Simon . Lewis . Blair S. . The American Journal of Gastroenterology . 101 . 10 . 2218–22 . 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2006.00761.x . 16848804. 1802463 .
  39. 10.1097/00004836-200609000-00005 . Capsule Endoscopy Retention: Is it a Complication? . 2006 . Cheifetz . Adam S. . Lewis . Blair S. . Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology . 40 . 8 . 688–91 . 16940879. 26367946 .
  40. 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2007.03556.x . Development of a capsule endoscopy scoring index for small bowel mucosal inflammatory change . 2007 . Gralnek . I. M. . Defranchis . R. . Seidman . E. . Leighton . J. A. . Legnani . P. . Lewis . B. S. . Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics . 27 . 2 . 17956598 . 146–54. 39324497 . free .
  41. 10.1016/j.gie.2007.01.015 . Obscure GI bleeding in the world of capsule endoscopy, push, and double balloon enteroscopies . 2007 . Lewis . Blair S. . Gastrointestinal Endoscopy . 66 . 3 . S66–8 . 17709036.
  42. 10.1055/s-2007-966930 . Literature review and recommendations for clinical application of small-bowel capsule endoscopy, based on a panel discussion by international experts . 2007 . Mergener . K. . Ponchon . T. . Gralnek . I. . Pennazio . M. . Gay . G. . Selby . W. . Seidman . E. . Cellier . C. . Murray . J. . De Franchis . R. . Rösch . T. . Lewis . B. . Endoscopy . 39 . 10 . 895–909 . 17968807. 8 .
  43. 10.1053/j.gastro.2007.06.007 . American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute Technical Review on Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding . 2007 . Raju . Gottumukkala S. . Gerson . Lauren . Das . Ananya . Lewis . Blair . Gastroenterology . 133 . 5 . 1697–717 . 17983812 . American Gastroenterological Association.
  44. 10.1053/j.gastro.2007.06.008 . American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute Medical Position Statement on Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding . 2007 . Raju . Gottumukkala S. . Gerson . Lauren . Das . Ananya . Lewis . Blair . Gastroenterology . 133 . 5 . 1694–6 . 17983811 . American Gastroenterological Association. free .

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mount Sinai School of Medicine - Blair S. Lewis .
  2. Web site: Becker's ASC Review: 25 Great Physicians in New York .
  3. Web site: International Conference of Capsule Endoscopy Chairmen . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110918013133/http://www.iccd2010.com/chairmen.html . 2011-09-18 .
  4. Web site: International Conference of Capsule Endoscopy consensus statement . March 13, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081003201634/http://www.icce.info/en-int/Pages/consensus.aspx . October 3, 2008 . dead .
  5. 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2007.03556.x . Development of a Capsule Endoscopy Scoring Index for Small Bowel Mucosal Inflammatory Change . 2007 . Gralnek . I. M. . Defranchis . R. . Seidman . E. . Leighton . J. A. . Legnani . P. . Lewis . B. S. . Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics . 27 . 2 . 17956598 . 146–54. 39324497 . free .
  6. Web site: 75 Best Gastroenterologists in America in 2010.
  7. Web site: 125 Leading Gastroenterologists in 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120114180941/http://www.beckersasc.com/lists/125-of-the-leading-gastroenterologists-in-america/h-l.html . 2012-01-14 .
  8. Web site: Blair Lewis profile on SuperDoctors.com.
  9. Web site: Blair Lewis profile on Patients Choice . 2012-02-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111031142952/http://www.patientschoice.org/Dr_Blair_Lewis/profile . 2011-10-31 . dead .

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