1932 - 1990

Theodore (Ted) Tromovitch was born on April 1, 1932, in Edwardsville, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1953 and received his medical degree from Boston University in 1957. After completing a period of research in dermatology at New York, he came to San Francisco where he interned at San Francisco General Hospital in 1957 and 1958. He then completed a residency year in dermatology at Charity Hospital, Tulane University in New Orleans in 1959. He returned to New York University Skin and Cancer Unit as a Research Fellow in 1959-1961.

1919-2003

Thomas B. Fitzpatrick received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1945 and a PhD from University the of Minnesota in 1951. He was a fellow in Dermatology and Syphilology at the Mayo Clinic 1948-51.

Richard B. Odom received his bachelor’s degree and MD from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He played varsity basketball at Wake Forest. He received dermatology residency training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC.

1933-2021

Malcolm Greaves received his medical degree from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School in 1957. He was a UK Medical Research Council Fellow for 3 years at the University College London where he received a PhD in pharmacology. He completed his dermatology training at St. John’s Institute of Dermatology and the Royal Victoria Infirmary.

Lawrence A. Schachner graduated from medical school at the University of Nebraska in 1972. He completed his pediatric internship there in 1973. Following a pediatric residency and a dermatology residency at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, he joined the University of Miami department of Dermatology, establishing the Pediatric Dermatology Division in 1978. Since then, he has trained 28 fellows equally distributed amongst the United States and abroad and has impacted the education of many hundreds of pediatricians and dermatologists.

1911-1993

J. Lamar Callaway was associated with Duke University Medical Center from its beginning. He graduated from the Medical School’s first class in 1933 at the age of 22 years. After training in dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania with John Stokes, he joined the faculty at Duke on July 1, 1937, as its first dermatologist.

Barbara A. Gilchrest received her undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her MD from Harvard Medical School. Following a post-doctoral fellowship with Howard Green at MIT, Dr. Gilchrest established a tissue culture laboratory at HMS. Her research was sponsored by the National Institute on Aging.

John Zitelli, MD graduated with honors of Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pittsburgh and graduated with highest honors from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He received his Medicine and Dermatology training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

1917-2007

A native of Viroqua, WI, Wheeler was born in 1917. He received a B.A. in 1938 and an M.D. in 1941, both from the University of Wisconsin where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha. He continued his professional training in medicine and dermatology at Cincinnati General Hospital and the University of Michigan Hospitals.

Rex A. Amonette was born and raised in the small town of Nashville, Arkansas which is located in the southwest part of the state. After attending Hendrix College, as a Hoerner Scholar, he graduated from medical school at the University of Arkansas. His dermatology training was completed in at the University of Tennessee in Memphis where he was encouraged by his chair, William Rosenberg, to become a Mohs surgeon. Perry Robins had developed the first formal training for Mohs surgery at New York University and Dr. Amonette became the second fellowship trained Mohs surgeon in the United States. In 1972 he started the Memphis Dermatology Clinic.