Dr. Ellis has practiced Internal Medicine and Bariatrics (weight loss medicine) for over 30 years in the Washington, DC area.
A native Washingtonian, Dr. Ellis, graduated with a public education from Coolidge High School in 1966, completing undergraduate studies at Howard University with Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude honors in 1970. He attended medical school in California at Stanford University, completing the school with academic honors in 1975. He obtained internship and residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD, finishing this training in 1978. He has maintained a clinical care practice throughout his career in HMO, university faculty, and private practice settings.
Dr. Ellis has served in administrative capacities in various organizations, including Medical Director of the Montgomery Medical Group from 1995 to 1997, Associate Medical Director of the Georgetown University Community Practice Group from 1997 to 1999, and Medical Director of None Suffer Lack Center for Health and Healing, a church-based medical group from 1999 to 2003. He currently is in private practice in Prince Georges County.
Dr. Ellis has had a long history of interest in the development and education of young people, serving as Biology Instructor of Nairobi College -East Palo Alto, a school for disadvantaged youth while he was in medical school in California. He also helped to found in 1986 the Washington Youth at Risk Program, a program for juveniles adjudicated or identified as at risk for delinquency, and was Chairman of the Board of that organization for a number of years. He has served as mentor for both elementary school level youth as well as health care professionals in training from the level of medical assistant to physician.
He is married to Dr. Caryl Mussenden, a gynecologist who also performs cosmetic surgery and procedures, with whom he shares an office in Lanham, MD. They reside in Alexandria, Virginia and are the blessed and proud parents of four adult children and 5 grandchildren, all of whom are a great source of joy in their lives.
