Lionel D. Lewis received his B.A. degree from Cambridge University, England in 1974 and received his MB BCh degree from The Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff, Wales, in 1977. He performed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University Hospital of Wales at Cardiff and its affiliated hospitals. He then completed his internal medicine training and went on to become an Instructor in Clinical Pharmacology at Guy's Hospital, London, from 1982 to 1987. During this time he completed his doctoral thesis (MD, Wales) on the clinical pharmacokinetics of ifosfamide. From 1987 to 89, he undertook further training and became an accredited specialist in general internal medicine, clinical pharmacology, and pulmonology. From 1989 to 1991, he completed a two-year clinical/research fellowship in clinical pharmacology at The Johns Hopkins University Hospital. He then returned to the UK to further obtain experience in Phase I drug studies at the Guys' Drug Research Unit. In 1993, he joined the faculty at Dartmouth Medical School and joined Dr. Nierenberg as the second member of the section of Clinical Pharmacology.
