Chad Lewis, MPH
Chad Lewis, MPH
Medical Student
Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
Chad is a fourth-year medical student at Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine. He is also a former Marine Sergeant who enlisted weeks after the attacks on September 11, 2001 and was deployed to Iraq’s "Triangle of Death” with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit from 2004 to 2005. Soon after, he was deployed again to provide relief to victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and was subsequently awarded the Humanitarian Service Medal by the U.S. Department of Defense. While on active duty, Chad completed his B.S. at Southern Illinois University before leaving the military to work as a field engineer for companies such as Boeing and AT&T in 2007.
Inspired by these experiences, Chad chose to pursue a career in medicine and completed his premedical studies at the University of Arizona prior to working at a non-profit led by the 17th Surgeon General of the United States. During this time, as a recipient of the Andrew F. Pleasant Scholarship for Advanced Studies in Health Literacy and Prevention, he managed free public health promotion programs in low-income communities ranging from Tucson, AZ to South Bronx, NY. He concurrently completed his Master of Public Health at the George Washington University in 2016.
Since matriculating at Dartmouth, Chad has worked to “pay forward” the mentorship he received as a young man following the loss of his father to preventable illness at age nine. He has helped disadvantaged and low-income students pursue their dreams with the national non-profit Mentoring in Medicine, counseled local high school students experiencing racial discrimination, and, as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, he co-founded an organization that encourages underresourced high school students to pursue STEM-based careers. He has also served on the Student National Medical Association’s National Board of Directors and was elected to student government as his school’s inaugural Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion in 2019.
In recognition of his work, Chad was awarded the prestigious Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarship by the American Association of Medical Colleges in 2018. This award is given each year to five rising third-year medical students who have shown leadership in efforts to eliminate inequities in medical education and health care and have demonstrated leadership in addressing educational, societal, and health care needs of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States.