BMH MEDICAL STAFF WELCOMES NEW SURGEON

General surgeon Thomas H. Lewis, MD, has joined the medical staff at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. He was most recently a staff surgeon at the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center in White River Junction (VT), and has been a locum tenens physician at BMH covering surgery on weekends for the past year.

In his role as full-time BMH physician, Dr. Lewis will share an office with fellow surgeon Joseph Rosen, MD, located on the 2nd floor of the Gannett Medical Building. Later this year, Dr. Lewis and Dr. Rosen will be affiliated in a practice with general surgeon Gregory Gadowski, MD, in the Medical Office Building. The group will provide surgical services to the community with fellow BMH surgeon John Bookwalter, MD.

After graduating summa cum laude from Manhattan College (NY, NY) with a bachelor of science degree in biology, Dr. Lewis attained his doctor of medicine at the College of Medicine at University of Vermont. He completed both his general surgery internship and residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (NH). He also has a fellowship in colon and rectal surgery from Sansum Medical Center (Santa Barbara, CA).

Dr. Lewis is board-certified in general surgery and is one of only three surgeons practicing in Vermont who is also board-certified in colon/rectal surgery. He is a fellow in both the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, and is a member of the New England Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.

Dr. Lewis and his wife Marcia have three teen-age children: Brian, 17, Connor, 15, and Ellie, 13. They live in western Massachusetts on a gentleman’s farm where they raise goats and have oxen. He enjoys maple sugaring, canoeing, skiing, and outdoor sports in general.

The newest BMH surgeon says he chose surgery because he likes being able to make a difference in people’s lives; he enjoys the impact his expertise has on a patient’s quality of life, bringing a patient’s problem to closure as surgery allows him to do, saying it energizes him.

Dr. Lewis is accepting new patients and may be reached by calling 802-254-5510.

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