2018 Distinguished Service Award Winner
Upon graduation, Dr. Lewis completed his residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at UTHSC/City of Memphis Hospital in June 1980. His son Paul, a 2014 UTHSC College of Dentistry graduate, is following in his father’s footsteps and is completing his Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
He and his wife, Mary, who is a 1978 UTHSC College of Nursing graduate, moved to Rogers, Arkansas, where he founded Ozark Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, a Fellow of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and a Fellow of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery.
A former president of the Arkansas Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, Dr. Lewis is a recipient of the Arkansas State Dental Association Humanitarian Dentist Award and the Arkansas Delta Dental Open Heart Award. He also recently completed his term as president of the UT College of Dentistry Alumni Board of Trustees. Dr. Lewis has been a member of the Craniofacial Surgery Team at Arkansas Children’s Hospital for the last seven years.
The majority of his mission work has been through Operation New Life, a multi- surgical specialty organization from Arkansas founded by Dr. Bill Alfonso, a UT graduate and a plastic surgery colleague. Together they have made over 27 week-long mission trips to Honduras, where they instruct plastic surgery residents, maxillofacial surgeons, dental and medical students to diagnose, develop treatment plans and surgically manage facial fractures, tumors and congenital deformities of the face.
In that time, with the help of many other oral and maxillofacial surgeons, they have assessed over 2,000 patients and provided surgical care for over 700 patients who otherwise could not have received treatment. For that, he, Dr. Alfonso and Dr. John Jones, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon from Little Rock were awarded Distinguished International Professors of Surgery by the Honduran College of Medical Sciences.
Dr. Lewis continues to practice as the senior surgeon in a specialty practice.
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