{"id":23774,"date":"2025-11-03T23:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/23774\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:37:08","slug":"steven-lewis-md-elected-president-of-the-world-federation-of-neurology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/23774\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Lewis, MD, Elected President of the World Federation of Neurology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to being devoted to his patients, Dr. Lewis has spent decades committed to advancing training and high-quality neurological care for people across the globe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe congratulate Dr. Lewis on this honorable position and are excited to see what he accomplishes as he continues to promote brain health,\u201d says Robert Rosenwasser, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Vickie &amp; Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJefferson Health is proud to have Dr. Lewis as a leader making transformative impacts on patients, students and physicians in our region and around the world,\u201d says Baligh Yehia, MD, President, Jefferson Health.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lewis previously served as Chair of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. He\u2019s received the A.B. Baker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Neurologic Education from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the American Neurological Association (ANA) Award for Excellence in Education. During his time as Editor-in-Chief of\u00a0Continuum: Lifelong Learning in Neurology, the American Academy of Neurology\u2019s flagship educational publication\u00a0gained worldwide prominence. He\u2019s now the Editor-in-Chief of MedLink Neurology.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lewis was instrumental in the recent rollout of utilizing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lvhn.org\/news\/lehigh-valley-fleming-neuroscience-institute-first-region-offer-incisionless-focused\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">focused ultrasound to treat essential tremor and Parkinson\u2019s disease<\/a> at Lehigh Valley Hospital\u2013Cedar Crest, which is the first in the region and one of only two sites in Pennsylvania where it\u2019s offered.\u00a0He holds the Timothy M. Breidegam Endowed Chair in Neurology at Lehigh Valley Health Network, part of Jefferson Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition to being devoted to his patients, Dr. Lewis has spent decades committed to advancing training and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-23774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}