Dr. Richard Lewis is a trained, board-certified internal medicine and occupational/preventive medicine physician. Since he is very interested in all public health issues, he feels the Dee's Weight Solution® (DWS) lifestyle program provides a safe, healthy, and medically sound approach to address the severe obesity issues in America. He also feels the DWS program can be used to facilitate healthier eating habits and to facilitate medically driven therapeutic lifestyle changes necessitated by heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, etc. He is Medical Adviser to Dee's Weight Solution® Corporation and provides program design consulting, research and our clinical data analysis.
Dr. Lewis has devoted much of his career to the development of health and safety programs for workers with exposures to heavy metals, chemical hazards, and physical stressors. Dr. Lewis has experience with the petrochemical, steel, aerospace, automotive, tire and rubber, plastics, microelectronics, and healthcare industries. He has over twenty years of experience as the corporate medical advisor to Fortune 500 companies, including Sherwin-Williams, BF Goodrich, TRW, and PolyOne. Dr. Lewis also served as the Director of Employee Health at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation from 2002-2005.
Early on, Dr. Lewis recognized the importance of integrating personal health promotion with company-based occupational health programs. He was a reviewer for the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine's Corporate Health Achievement Award, evaluating many of the top wellness programs in the country. In 1999, Dr. Lewis developed ERC Health, low-cost, a health education and screening program that was integrated in a medical benefit plan offered exclusively to Northeast Ohio Companies. In 2006, h served as a judge for the "Healthy 50" awards for companies in Northeast Ohio.
Dr. Lewis is currently devoting his talents to the development of workplace programs to promote sustained health improvement. He is actively investigating the role of non-pharmacologic interventions to achieve long-term cardiovascular risk reduction and weight loss. He is also on the faculty of the Global Medicine Education Foundation, teaching health professionals in the field of Ecological Medicine.
