Dr. Gary Lewis
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Physiology; Director, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Toronto; Senior Scientist, Toronto General Research Institute; Drucker Family Chair in Diabetes Research

Dr. Gary Lewis completed his medical training in 1982 in South Africa, followed by specialty training in Internal Medicine and then Endocrinology at the University of Chicago. He joined the staff of the Toronto General Hospital in 1990, was appointed Head of the Division of Endocrinology at UHN and Mount Sinai Hospitals in 2001 and in 2008 he was appointed Director, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Toronto.

Almost 3 million Canadians are affected by diabetes. This staggering epidemic threatens to overwhelm our health care system and to adversely affect the Canadian economy. One of the factors responsible for the very high prevalence of cardiovascular disease (heart attacks, strokes, circulation problems) in people who have diabetes is an abnormality of their blood fats and cholesterol. Dr. Lewis' research attempts to understand the mechanism of the blood fat abnormalities in diabetes. He and his colleagues have made a number of important discoveries and have contributed to the general understanding of this phenomenon.

Dr. Lewis has received numerous awards for his research, including the Young Investigator Award of the Canadian Diabetes Association, Scholarship and Career Investigator awards from the Canadian Diabetes Association, the William Goldie Research Award of the University of Toronto Department of Medicine, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Lipoprotein Society. He has been invited to present his research findings at a number of universities around the world and at prestigious international meetings. Dr. Lewis is regarded as one of the foremost experts in the abnormalities of cholesterol and blood fats in those affected by diabetes.

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