Ricardo Lewitus

Ricardo Lewitus (born November 1, 1949) is an American pediatrician in Sudbury, Massachusetts and was affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including MetroWest Medical Center and UMass Memorial Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Cayetano Heredia University and has been in practice for more than 40 years. Lewitus is also an entrepreneur with roots in the world of classical music and the arts.
Early life
Born in Lima, Peru, Ricardo Lewitus is the son of Hans Lewitus, a professor at the Lima Conservatory of Music and a founding member of the Peruvian Symphony Orchestra as lead clarinetist. His mother, Eva Heller de Lewitus, is a retired photographer.
He went from the age of 5 till 15 to Franco Peruano School where he graduated in 1965.
By 1963, he was appointed official photographer for the school events, a position he held until 1965. In 1965, he enlisted in the military service of the Peruvian Army and he graduated as First Brigadier. From 1962 and until 1973, he became leader of the Jewish Youth organization Kineret.
Medical career
Lewitus is a graduate of the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, where he received his medical degree in 1976. He completed his pediatric residency in New York, and was a practicing pediatrician in Massachusetts for over 40 years until his retirement in 2016. He served as Chief of Pediatrics at Marlborough Hospital and later became active with the MetroWest Physicians Organization as a board member and as pediatric medical director.
Musical career
Since his retirement, Lewitus has produced three CDs of his father’s arrangements of music: ;Recorders Latin Music for Recorders in 2017, Sacred Songs for Recorder Quartet from J.S.Bach in 2019 and De Johann a Hans J.S.Bach Canciones Sagradas in 2021. Lewitus has also been instrumental in the publication by the Universidad Nacional de Música (Lima Peru) of his father’s arrangements of Slovak music for clarinet: Obras para dúo y trio de clarinetes, April 2018.
He and his wife, Marla, have endowed a scholarship for a piano student and another one for a clarinetist at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music.
He is a sponsor of the Vivace Vilnius Music Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania, and has sponsored recitals for Boston Conservatory piano students in Lima, Peru and in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Lewitus serves on the Leadership Circle of Boston Conservatory at Berklee and as a Chairman of the Board of the Kaleidoscope Musart organization.
Publications
Lewitus is the author of a children’s book, What Does the Sign Say? , which received a Moonbeam award in 2008 and has sold over 18,000 copies.
Lewitus is also the author of:
*Chazuta - Memorias de un externado, self-published via Bookemon.com in 2013.
*My Pediatrician Meu Pediatria Mi pediatría, a wordless book upon his retirement in 2016 and dedicated as a present to all of his patients.
*From Conception to Birth: My 38-week Journey, issued in 2021.

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