Human Genetics: Concepts and Applications (Lewis), 9th EditionAbout the Author
Ricki Lewis has built an eclectic career in communicating the excitement of genetics. She earned her PhD in genetics in 1980 from Indiana University. It was the dawn of the modern biotechnology era, which Ricki chronicled in many magazines and journals. She published one of the first articles on DNA fingerprinting in Discover magazine in 1988, and a decade later one of the first articles on human stem cells in The Scientist.
Ricki has taught a variety of life science courses at Miami University, the University at Albany, Empire State College, and community colleges. She has authored or co-authored several university-level textbooks and is the author of the essay collection Discovery: Windows on the Life Sciences and the novel Stem Cell Symphony. On the clinical front, Ricki has been a genetic counselor for a private medical practice since 1984 and has been a hospice
volunteer since 2005. She is a frequent public speaker.
Ricki presently teaches an online course on "Genethics" for the Alden March Bioethics Institute of Albany Medical Center. She lives in upstate New York and sometimes Martha’s Vineyard, with husband Larry, three daughters, many cats, a tortoise, and a hare. She can be reached at ralewis@nycap.rr.com.
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