Dr. Lewis received her PhD from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis where she was a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Predoctoral Fellow. Dr. Lewis’s research interests include child neglect, mental health, prevention research, and implementation science. Dr. Lewis worked as a research assistant on three federally funded studies at Washington University in St. Louis's Center for Violence and Injury Prevention, as well as the Dissemination and Implementation Research Core. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was a senior training specialist at the National SafeCare Training and Research Center (NSTRC), where her work focused on the implementation of an evidence-based parenting intervention to prevent child maltreatment. Dr. Lewis holds a B.A. in Psychology from West Georgia University and a M.S.W. from Georgia State University.