William Lewis, MD

Instructor of Dermatology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School

Biography

Dr. Lewis is an Instructor of Dermatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He earned his MD from Harvard Medical School and performed research at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine in Dr. Rox Anderson’s lab. While a medical student, he developed VeinSeek, the first smartphone-based veinfinder, now with over a million users worldwide. He subsequently completed residency in internal medicine at UCLA and dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania. As part of his training, he performed research in India and worked clinically in Malawi and Guatemala, and he has a particular interest in developing tools and techniques for global health and low-resource settings. Clinically, he sees patients in general dermatology clinic, where he precepts medical students and residents. His research focuses on image processing, devices, and optical diagnostic tools for dermatology; current areas of inquiry are in image processing for visualization of subclinical erythema and otherwise-invisible topicals, cryotherapy applications for pigmentation and field cancerization, and optical methods and devices for skin cancer detection. His work is supported by the Skin of Color Society.