Hugh Bilson Lewis, former professor of medicine and adjunct associate professor in hematology at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, died April 25. He was 79.

Dr. Lewis was recognized as an authority in comparative hematology. A native of Wales, Dr. Lewis earned his veterinary medical degree at Glasgow University. He then completed a residency at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, where he continued on as an NIH postdoc fellow before joining the faculty as an assistant professor in medicine in 1971. In 1974 he became a lecturer in hematology and became adjunct associate professor in that same department in 1982. During that time he also taught at Purdue for a few years, and he served as senior director of pathology and toxicology at Smith Kline and French Laboratories. 

He left Penn in 1986 to become dean of Purdue’s College of Veterinary Medicine, a position he remained in until 1996. In 1996, Dr. Lewis left Purdue to join MMI/Banfield, The Pet Hospital, as senior vice president of practice development. He also served as president of DataSavant. He later moved to Vancouver, Washington.

No service is scheduled for this time.