James Lewis is the Health Officer for Snohomish County, WA, and is a board-certified physician in internal medicine, preventive medicine, and infectious disease, and has a Master’s in Public Health with a focus in Epidemiology. He went to medical School at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where he obtained his MD in 2010. Dr. Lewis subsequently trained in internal medicine at Washington University in St. Louis finishing in 2013, followed by training in infectious diseases and preventive medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) through 2016. He obtained his MPH in Epidemiology at the UNC Gilling’s School of global Public Health also in 2016.
James then joined the infectious diseases faculty at UNC for one year while working part-time with the healthcare-associated infections and vaccine-preventable diseases programs at the North Carolina Division of Public Health (NC DPH) until becoming the Medical Director of the Surveillance of Healthcare Associated and Resistant Pathogens Patient Safety (SHARPPS) Program at NC DPH in 2017.
After his time at NC DPH, James took a position at Public Health Seattle & King County as the Medical Epidemiologist lead for the COVID response in healthcare settings in March 2020, where he remained until becoming the Health Officer for Snohomish County in August of 2022. He maintains adjunct/volunteer faculty appointments within the UNC School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases, the UNC Gilling’s School of Global Public Health, as well as the University of Washington School of Medicine in the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
