Dr. Dan Lewis

Dan Lewis, D.V.M., an eminent scholar, longtime professor in the college’s Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences and chief of the UF Small Animal Hospital’s orthopaedic surgery service, has received the 2024 Steve Fox Lifetime Achievement Award from the Veterinary Orthopedic Society.

Presented Feb. 15 during the group’s annual meeting at Lake Tahoe, the Fox Award is considered the society’s most prestigious award. The award is presented annually to VOS members who have shown a lifelong commitment to collaboration between research, practice and industry with significant contribution to the field of veterinary orthopaedics and the VOS.

A former president of the society, Lewis also was the recipient of a 2012 World Small Animal Veterinary Association-Hill’s Pet Mobility Award and a UF Research Foundation Professorship in 2016. His interests include musculoskeletal traumatology, fracture management and reconstructive orthopedic surgery with a focus on the utilization of circular and hybrid external skeletal fixation for fracture stabilization, deformity correction and limb salvage procedures. He joined the college’s faculty in 1993.