patients receive. He has also partnered with a veterinarian oncologist to help treat animals with cancer. Lewinsky has published a number of medical papers in collaboration with several other scientists that focus on breast cancer. He has also been published in various textbooks. His earliest job in oncology was a residency at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco, California. Photography Lewinsky is also an accomplished photographer. His photographs are displayed in a "healing art gallery" at the West Hills radiation therapy center plus 20 medical offices across the country. Lewinsky has published a book of his photographs titled Nature – Our Healing Partner that is primarily aimed at his patients. The proceeds from its sale benefit the American Cancer Society. In January 2002, a number of his works were featured at the G. Ray Hawkins Gallery in an exhibit titled "The Healing Arts". Divided into two parts, one "focus[ed] entirely on work that Lewinsky has done for his treatment center", while the second featured "work borrowed from hospitals across the country"." In order to learn to be a better photographer, Lewinsky attended workshops by famous photographers such as Howard Bond, John Sexton, Ray McSavaney, and Tom Morse. Lewinsky has stated that one whose photography he attempted to emulate in his early efforts was Ansel Adams. Personal life Lewinsky married Marcia Kaye Vilensky (born 1949), his first wife, in 1969. They had two children—Monica, in 1973, and Michael, in 1977. The couple divorced in 1987. From 19951997, his daughter Monica was involved in a relationship with then President Bill Clinton. Lewinsky organized a legal defense fund for his daughter, announcing it on the Today Show. In a 1998 CNN interview, he described Monica's defense attorney William H. Ginsburg as a "close friend", and spoke out against government and media scrutiny of his daughter. References Further reading External links Bernard Lewinsky on the West Hills Radiation Therapy Website Lewinsky Photography Website Physicians from California American photographers American people of German-Jewish descent Living people 1943 births Salvadoran emigrants to the United States Salvadoran Jews Salvadoran people of German-Jewish descent American oncologists University of California, Berkeley alumni University of California, Irvine alumni University of Oregon alumni People from San Salvador