Resa E Lewiss MD DipABLM is an emergency medicine and lifestyle medicine physician. She is an adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University , a TEDMED speaker, healthcare designer, and award winning educator, mentor, and point-of-care ultrasound specialist.  She studied at Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the NIH Howard Hughes Research Scholars Program, and Harvard Emergency Medicine.
  • Innovation In 2014, Resa delivered a TEDMED talk on POCUS entitled How an Old Technology Became a Disruptive Innovation. She served as the President of the Society for Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships (2019—2020), Chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians Ultrasound Section (2014—2015), the 1st President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Academy of Emergency Ultrasound (2011—2012), and co-founder of SonoGames® (2011). I am a WINFOCUS founding member (2006).
  • Writing: Resa is published in medical and science journals ( > 130 PubMed citations) and the popular press. She has written for outlets including Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, STATNews, Slate, CNBC, Nature, the Philadelphia Inquirer, MedPage Today, and Doximity OpMed.  She is co-author of the award winning business book MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact (HarperCollins 2024). She has a column on Healio: Lewiss on Lifestyle Medicine
  • Speaking: Resa is an an accomplished, engaging, and sought after speaker for conferences, grand rounds, plenary, and visiting professor lectures regionally , nationally, and internationally.
  • Podcasting:  Resa is the creator and host of The Visible Voices Podcast and hosts the Academic Emergency Medicine Education & Training podcast. The Visible Voices has been featured in The Guardian, the Brown Alumni Monthly, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
  • Designing: Resa is a healthcare designer with projects focused on storytelling, the built environment, devices, and workflows. She has worked with Perkins + Will, Harvard  School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Masters of Design Engineering, and The Global Studio and the Health and Design Collaborative at Jefferson 
  • Coaching: Resa has extensive experience as a speaker coach, a writing coach, and as a workplace efficiency coach. She co-creates the coaching collaboration to design a process with the client in mind.
Resa’s resume  (Updated April 2026)