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Professor of Clinical Surgery
Director, Fellowship in Endocrine Surgery
Physician Leader, Thyroid and Other Endocrine Cancer Site Disease Group, University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chief, Division of Endocrine Surgery
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Biography
John I. Lew, M.D. is a Professor of Surgery and Vice Chair of Surgery for Faculty Affairs and Diversity of the DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. He currently serves as Chief of the Division of Endocrine Surgery, Fellowship Director in Endocrine Surgery at University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospitals, and Physician Leader of the Thyroid and Other Endocrine Cancer Site Disease Group at University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Dr. Lew’s academic pursuits include both clinical and basic translational research. His clinical research centers on minimally invasive parathyroidectomy using intraoperative parathyroid hormone monitoring (IPM) that has similar or better outcomes when compared to extensive parathyroid explorations. IPM has transformed how primary hyperparathyroidism is considered as a disease of abnormal function rather than of form alone. Dr. Lew has also been an early proponent of clinic based surgeon-performed ultrasound, and has extensively investigated its practical use for the diagnosis, staging and surveillance of patients with thyroid cancer and parathyroid disease. In basic translational research, he has been a recipient of an American Cancer Society Institutional Grant and a Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center private grant for his work studying differences of estrogen receptor (ER) subtype expression and regulation in papillary thyroid carcinogenesis in women before and after menopause.
After receiving his undergraduate degree with honors from Cornell University, Dr. Lew earned his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1996. Dr. Lew completed his internship and residency in General Surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center, and was a Chief Resident in General Surgery from 2002-2003. During residency, Dr. Lew completed a 2-year post-doctoral basic science research fellowship at the University of Chicago studying liposomal gene transfer in knock out mice. For his research, he was awarded the SSAT Resident Research and Chicago Surgical Society Awards in 2000. Dr. Lew completed a fellowship in Minimal Access Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center in 2004. He then went on to complete fellowship training in Endocrine Surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital. Dr. Lew then joined the faculty at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine as Assistant Professor of Surgery, rising to Associate Professor and then Professor of Surgery in 2018.
Dr. Lew has authored and co-authored over 100 original papers and chapters including manuscripts in all major surgery journals. He has co-authored several chapters in major textbooks in the field of Endocrine and General Surgery including Textbook of Endocrine Surgery, Mastery of Surgery, and The SAGES Manual. He performs editorial services for several professional journals including Surgery, Annals of Surgical Oncology, Journal of American College of Surgeons, World Journal of Surgery, Annals of Surgery and Journal of Surgical Research.
Among other important professional societies, Dr. Lew is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES), Society of Surgical Oncology, Association for Academic Surgery, International Association of Endocrine Surgeons, Association of Surgical Education, and the Society of University Surgeons. He currently serves on numerous national professional committees including the AAES Leadership Council, AAES Fellowship Directors Committee and ACS Florida Committee of Applicants. -
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