Carole B. Lewis

Dr. Carole Lewis has worked in home health, long-term care, acute hospitals, rehabilitation departments and outpatient clinics. She started a private practice in Washington, D.C., in 1981 and continues to work as a clinician. Dr. Lewis received her two master’s degrees in healthcare management and gerontology from the University of Southern California and her PhD from the University of Maryland in health education. She received her DPT from Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Professions in 2007. She currently serves on the medical faculty at George Washington University as an adjunct professor in the department of geriatrics.

Dr. Lewis has extensive publications in the field of aging. She has been the editor of the journal Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation for more than 30 years and has written more than 20 books on aging. She is also the coeditor of the first exclusive e-book in rehabilitation: Physical Therapy for the Older Adult: Examination and Intervention: An Evidence Based Approach.

Her awards include the APTA’s Lucy Blair Service Award, being chosen as a Fulbright Scholar, the Joan Mills Award, and the Clinical Excellence Award, and she is a Catherine Worthingham Fellow for the APTA. She is the 2014 recipient of the Gerontological Society of America’s Excellence in Rehabilitation of Aging Persons Award and the 2016 Mary McMillan lecturer, the highest honor in the APTA. In 2019, the Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy of the APTA created the Carole B. Lewis Lecture, which will be given annually at the Combined Sections Meeting in perpetuity to honor Dr. Lewis’s lifetime achievements in geriatrics.

Dr. Lewis has lectured extensively. She has spoken in 49 states. Her international lectures include Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Finland, Canada, Israel, China, Egypt, the Netherlands, and Turkey.