ABOUT COLONEL (Ret.) MICHAEL LEWIS, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACN Dr. Lewis graduated from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, and Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He completed post-graduate training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Johns Hopkins University, and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research - where he developed the ESSENCE program, the nation’s first and largest Syndrome‐based Disease Outbreak Recognition System that is used by the US CDC, health departments across the United States, and many countries around the world. Subsequently, Dr. Lewis was assigned to the AFRIMS Research Laboratory in Bangkok, Thailand, where established the DoD’s Global Emerging Infections Surveillance Program. There he developed and coordinated programs across Asia, led investigations into disease outbreaks, and was at ground zero for SARS and bird flu. Dr. Lewis is board-certified and a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine and the American College of Nutrition.