Human Genetics, 10th Edition, (Lewis)About the AuthorRicki Lewis has built an eclectic career in communicating the excitement of genetics. She earned her Ph.D. 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 Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It, as well as an essay collection and a novel. 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 College. She lives in upstate New York and sometimes Martha's Vineyard, with husband Larry, many cats, and a tortoise. She can be reached at rickilewis54@gmail.com and writes a blog, Genetic Linkage, at www.rickilewis.com. |  |
