Lasting Memories

Bernard Lewis
1916-Jan. 21, 2011
Palo Alto, California

Bernard Lewis, 94, a longtime resident of Palo Alto, died Jan. 21, 2011.

He was born, raised and schooled in Canada, the son of Russian immigrants. He attended college and medical school at Queen?s University and completed an internal-medicine residency at Hamilton General Hospital. As a captain in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps during WWII, he conducted pioneering studies of the effects of stress in the development of psychosomatic disorders. He was subsequently the first Canadian to complete internal-medicine fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

He and his wife Barbara lived in Iowa City from 1950 to 1956, where he became a tenured professor of medicine at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. In 1956 the family moved to Palo Alto, where he became a charter member of the metabolic section of the Palo Alto Medical Clinic, as well as a member of the clinical faculty of the Department of Internal Medicine of Stanford University. He was an active clinical practitioner as well as the principle investigator of research studies in atherosclerosis and the prevention of cardiovascular disease at the Palo Alto Medical Research Foundation. He published more than 70 articles and book chapters. He retired from the practice of medicine in 1986. He was widowed after 37 years of marriage but starting in 1986 enjoyed 25 years of happy marriage with his second wife, Marina.

He is survived by his wife Marina Lewis of Palo Alto; sons Douglas and Richard Lewis and their wives; two grandsons; and numerous nephews.