She championed women in the workplace and led a public panel discussion for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1985 entitled “Medicine as a career choice for women.”
Mary Powell Lewis, pioneering orthopedic surgeon, role model, mentor, and tree farmer, has died at 98
Dr. Powell married Stuart Lewis, also a doctor, in 1954, and, to avoid confusion, did not use Lewis as her professional name. They settled in Philadelphia in 1963, and she practiced orthopedics for decades in Abington andIn 1963, she became one of the first American women to be board certified in orthopedic surgery. Later, she was president of the local chapter of the American Medical Women’s Association and the Philadelphia Club of Medical Women.
“The human body was endlessly interesting for her,” said her daughter Dee. “She was curious and hands-on. But she didn’t rush things. She listened carefully to her patients.” Dr. Powell’s husband lived with Huntington’s Disease, and she was his primary caregiver for decades. She joined the board of trustees of the Delaware Valley chapter of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America and earned its 2002 Woman of Distinction Award for activism.
She met Stuart Lewis at Johns Hopkins, and they spent their nine-month honeymoon traveling through Mexico, Central America, and South America. They had daughters Dee, Caroline, Margaret, and Judith, and lived in Northeast Philadelphia,
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