SPECIALISTS: Advanced Small Animal Circular and Hybrid External Fixation (ESF) Dry-lab AU

Speaker Biography

Dr. Daniel Dean Lewis

DVM, Diplomate ACVS, ACVS Founding Fellow Minimally Invasive
Small Animal Surgery (Orthopedics), Honorary Fellow Australian New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists
Professor Emeritus and former Jerry and Lola Collins Eminent Scholar in
Canine Sports Medicine and Comparative Orthopedics
Small Animal Surgery and subsequantly Orthopedic Surgery Service Chief (former)
Coordinator Small Animal Surgery Residency Program (former)
Associate Chair Graduate and House Officer Education (former)
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Florida

Dan Lewis received his DVM from the University of California, Davis in 1983. He completed an Internship in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery at Louisiana State University in 1984 and a Residency in Small Animal Surgery at the University of Florida in 1987. Dr. Lewis spent a year as the Surgical Registrar at Sydney University before returning to Louisiana State University in 1988 as an Assistant Professor. In 1993, he returned to the University of Florida where he has ascended to his current rank as a Professor of Small Animal Surgery and was subsequently named the Jerry and Lola Collins Eminent Scholar in Canine Sports Medicine and Comparative Orthopedics. Dr. Lewis is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons, a Founding Fellow in Minimal Invasive Small Animal Orthopedic Surgery, a former President of the Veterinary Orthopedic Society, the recipient of the 2012 World Small Animal Veterinary Association-Hill’s Pet Mobility Award. He was named a University of Florida Foundation Research Professor in 2016, was the recipient of the Veterinary Orthopedic Society’s Steve Fox Life Time Achievement Award in 2024 and was admitted as an Honorary Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in 2024. Dr. Lewis has authored or co-authored over 225 peer-reviewed publications. His special interests include musculoskeletal traumatology, minimally invasive fracture management and reconstructive orthopedic surgery with a focus on the utilization of circular and hybrid external skeletal fixation for fracture stabilization, deformity correction and limb salvage procedures. In addition, Dr. Lewis has most recently embraced the use of virtual surgical planning and 3D printing in complex orthopedic procedures.