James Lewis

Dr. James (Jim) Lewis Jr. is a head and neck surgical pathologist with 22 years of practice experience.  He has been at Mayo Clinic Arizona since February of 2024.  He completed medical school at Washington University in St. Louis, completed AP/CP residency and general surgical pathology fellowships there, and then went on to spend almost 10 years as faculty before moving to Vanderbilt University for 9 more years, followed by Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Lewis is co-chair of the College of American Pathologist’s Expert Panel on Guidelines for HPV Testing in Head and Neck Carcinomas, was an Editor for the 2022 World Health Organization 5^th Edition blue book on classification of head and neck tumors, and former President of the North American Society of Head and Neck Pathology.  He has taught and lectured extensively over the years, including numerous local, regional, national, and international presentations and teaching and mentoring of hundred of medical students, residents, fellows, and pathology faculty.  He also has a strong interest in translational research with over 200 publications in the medical literature including 40+ just on HPV in head and neck tumors.