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2014 Annual Banquet Speaker

Dr. Ricki Lewis
​Gene Therapy: A Forever Fix?

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Ricki Lewis is a science writer with a PhD in genetics. She is author of the true story “The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It” (St. Martin’s Press), the college textbook “Human Genetics: Concepts and Applications” (McGraw-Hill Education) to be published in October 2014 in the eleventh edition, and co-author of two human anatomy and physiology textbooks. She has also published a short human genetics book, an essay collection, a novel about stem cells, and more than 3,000 articles.

Dr. Lewis writes the “DNA Science” blog at Public Library of Science and contributes regularly to Medscape Medical News. She also writes for Scientific American, the MS Discovery Forum, and genetic disease organizations. She is a genetic counselor at CareNet Medical Group in Schenectady, NY, and teaches “Genethics” online for the PhD program at the Alden March Bioethics Institute of Albany Medical College. Dr. Lewis is a frequent public speaker. She lives near Schenectady, New York with husband Larry and many felines.






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