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Dara Lee Lewis, MD

Contributor; Editorial Advisory Board Member, Harvard Health Publishing

Dr. Dara Lee Lewis is a full-time cardiologist and the medical director of the Lown Group. Her clinical interests include preventive cardiology, general cardiology, and heart disease in women. She is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is the course director for the first-year Harvard Medical School course in cardiology pathophysiology. Dr. Lee Lewis earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.