Denise Lewis

Dr. Denise Riedel Lewis is a producer and analyst of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) incidence, morality, and survival statistics provided in SEER*Explorer and NCCR*Explorer. She has also co-created the fact sheets on the SEER website for various cancer types. She is a program director, maintaining a grant portfolio emphasizing early detection and prevention of cancer, clinical trial enrollment among adolescent and young adult (AYA) populations, use of cancer analytics, and modeling to improve cancer case completeness from population-based registries. She is also a contracting officer on projects involved with machine learning and digital pathology tools to extend the use of cancer registry data. She is an advisor on the NCI “Did You Know?” video series, is a member of the NCI Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Workgroup, and is an NCI representative to the Healthy People 2030 initiative for the cancer objective group. With the SEER Program’s partner organization, the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR), Dr. Lewis is a member of the data products committee for the National Childhood Cancer Registry (NCCR).

Dr. Lewis’ research interests include examining cancer incidence by histologic type, quality of histology in SEER data, and mapping cancer rates. Dr. Lewis is a co-lead of a team on the evaluation of SEER data to determine the feasibility of earlier release of rates and statistics on a limited scale.

Dr. Lewis has published more than 30 peer-reviewed research articles and 6 book chapters. Prior to joining SRP, Dr. Lewis was a Branch Chief with the US Department of Agriculture and an epidemiologist for the Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Lewis received her Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Technology from The George Washington University, her MPH degree in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from Yale University, and her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins University.

She completed her master’s and doctoral thesis work in NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics.