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.

Eugene Bauer has had a distinguished career in dermatology. He spent 17 years as faculty at Washington University in St. Louis before moving to Stanford to become chair of Dermatology (1988) and, later, dean at the Stanford University School of Medicine (1995). During his tenure at Stanford, he oversaw the merger of the medical centers of Stanford and the University of California-San Francisco.

Professor Murrell is head of the department of Dermatology, St. George Hospital at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She has been the director of Australia’s first dedicated dermatology clinical trial center since 1996. Her basic research and clinical interests have focused on patients with bullous disorders. She has published over 350 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Francisco Camacho Martinez was born in Melilla, Spain in 1945. An interest in anatomy and endocrinology during his early medical studies in Granada led to a fascination with dermatology and dermatologic surgery. Plastic surgery and dermatology in Granada were under the direction of his mentor Professor Felipe Dulanto, so he was able to obtain certification in both specialties.

Phillip Frost is one of the nation’s leading philanthropists, a highly respected dermatologist, and a successful businessman. Frost is the third son of a shoe store owner from South Philadelphia. His family lived above his father’s store for a good part of his childhood. His first job, at age 13, was working in a local hardware shop after school. He earned a degree in French literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1957 and received a medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine In 1961.

After medical training and during his dermatology residency at Cornell, Al Kopf became interested in melanoma. He went on to make a monumental impact upon the way we think about this skin cancer. He established the Malignant Melanoma Cooperative Group with NYU and four other universities. With the help of this group, he developed one of the earliest melanoma patient clinical databases which was designed to assess the effects of multiple variables on the survival of melanoma patients.

1875 – 1940

Rose Hirschler, the first woman dermatologist in the United States, the first woman to chair a department of dermatology and the only woman among the founders of the American Academy of Dermatology, was born in Butler, Indiana at a time when women could not vote and most medical societies discouraged interactions with women physicians.