Kadriye O. Lewis, Ed.D

Biography

Kadriye O. Lewis, EdD is the Director of Evaluation and Program Development in the Department of Graduate Medical Education at Children's Mercy Hospital (CMH) and Professor of Pediatrics with the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (UMKC SOM). Dr. Lewis is specialized in educational assessment and evaluation, distance learning, instructional design, curriculum design, and program development. Prior to coming to Children’s Mercy, Dr. Lewis worked for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) for 13 years. She played a major role in the development of the Online Master's Degree in Education Program for Healthcare Professionals. This program has developed a national and international reputation for excellence and played an important role in training future leaders in medical education. Dr. Lewis served as an education consultant to the medical center's faculty development program. She applied her educational background and academic skills to health literacy by establishing a Health Literacy Committee at CCHMC in 2007 and chaired this committee successfully for three years. In 2008 she has received Medical and Academic Partnerships Pfizer Visiting Professorships in Health Literacy/Clear Health Communication grant. Along with her many accomplishments in the area of scholarly activities, she also established the e-Learning SIG in Medical Education for the Academic Pediatrics Association (APA) and chaired this group for six years. Dr. Lewis is a certified distance educator and a Quality Matters Peer Reviewer for online courses. She has extensive experience with educational materials and course development, instructional design, program implementation, and its impact on student achievement. Dr. Lewis served as an education consultant for a national-level industry-sponsored project (Abbott Nutrition) on e-learning development in pediatric nutrition education for over six years. The working group consisted of faculty from six pediatric academic medical centers. For two years (2016 – 2018) she worked with the infectious disease team at CMH as a Co-PI for the Pfizer-funded CoVER project (Collaboration for Vaccination Education and Research for Residents). This project produced a unique training model in vaccine education for residency programs with its four interactive modules that were implemented nationally at 26 institutions. Now the CoVER model has been applied to the PIDS grant, Comprehensive Vaccine Education Program—From Training to Practice as a collaborative project she is involved in (http://www.pids.org/education-and-training/vaccine-education-program.html). Dr. Lewis is also involved in an NIH-funded grant project on the genome, various curriculum development projects for the graduate medical education programs at CMH, and teaches an online course in the Master of Health Professions Education program at UMKC SOM (http://med.umkc.edu/mhpe/). In 2019, she was honored by receiving the OLC Fellows Award because of her outstanding work and dedication to advancing online learning for health professions and medical education (https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/what-it-means-to-be-an-olc-fellow-and-how-to-nominate/).

Dr. Lewis is active in medical education research and her scholarly interests are focused on e-learning design, implementation of innovative technologies for curriculum delivery at many levels in healthcare education, including performance-based assessment, the construction of new assessment tools as well as the improvement and validation of existing tools and methods. Dr. Lewis presents extensively at many professional meetings and conferences and has been a keynote/an invited speaker at many international and national universities. In addition, she is the Medical Education Section Editor of Annals of Medicine Journal (https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/iann20/sections/medical-education).