2019 Closing Speaker

Bryan Lewis

Bryan Lewis is the Associate Dean for the College of Natural and Health Sciences, Director of Pre-Health program and a faculty member in the Biological Sciences department at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.  He has served in these positions at the University for the past 20 years and before that worked as a professor and advisor in the Biology Department at Clarke College in Dubuque, IA where he taught classes to both undergraduate and professional Physical Therapy students.  During his 20⁺ year career in higher education, Bryan has been a passionate advocate for student success and has helped many hundreds of students matriculate into professional health programs and graduate schools.  As a professor/scientist, his areas of research include physiology, neuroscience, pathology, membrane physiology, and biophysics.  As a Faculty advisor, his area of interest is helping students in any way he can think to be strong, confident developing professionals who foster a true belief in their own abilities, find lifelong careers they are passionate about, and ultimately are happy, well-adjusted adults who feel they are living the lives and careers they can be proud of. Bryan has his B.A. in Biology with a Chemistry minor from Ripon College and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.