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Lawrence Charles Parish, MD, MD (Hon), Editor-In-Chief Lawrence Charles Parish, MD, MD (Hon), Editor-in-Chief Doctor Lawrence Charles Parish received his MD degree from Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, interned at the Philadelphia General Hospital (Blockley), and was a resident in dermatology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He was the first Fellow in Medical Journalism at the Journal of the American Medical Association. He is in the private practice of dermatology in Philadelphia, where is also Clinical Professor of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology and Director of the Jefferson Center for International Dermatology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He has served on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and has been Visiting Professor of Dermatology at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, and Zagazig University School of Medicine, Zagazig, Egypt. He has received an honorary degree from the Sofia Faculty of Medicine in Bulgaria. His dermatology interests include decubitus ulcers, tropical dermatology, arthropod infestations, cutaneous bacterial infections, and the history of dermatology, for which he is President of the History of Dermatology Society and Honorary Member of the European Society for the History of Medicine. His list of publications approaches 600 contributions and 60 chapters or books. Doctor Parish is also Editor-in-Chief of SKINmed and former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Dermatology. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, Acta Dermatologica Croatia, and Cutis. Doctor Parish is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology, Founder of the Section on Dermatology of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, President of the International Academy of Cosmetic Dermatology, and a Member of the American Dermatological Association. He has Honorary or Corresponding Membership in the Brazilian, British, Bulgarian, French, Istanbul, Israeli, Italian, and Polish dermatology societies and is the recipient of the Andreas Bello Award, First Class. Larry E. Millikan, MD., Senior Deputy Editor Section Editor for Dermatologist Distinction Doctor Larry E. Millikan received his MD degree from the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia, following which he took his internship in the US Navy then as senior flight surgeon on the USS Lake Champlain and as flight surgeon to VR3 Maguire AFB NJ, following which he trained in dermatology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He then returned to Missouri, becoming Professor and Vice- Chairman under the late Dr. Philip C. Anderson. Subsequently, he served for 25 years as Professor and Chairman of Dermatology at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana, being elected Professor and Chair Emeritus in the Katrina aftermath. During his tenure, he organized the popular annual All That Jazz CME program In addition to membership in the American Academy of Dermatology, the American Dermatological Association, Women’s Dermatologic Society, and the European Academy of Dermatology and Venerology, he serves on the editorial boards of several dermatology publications and is Deputy Editor of SKINmed. His interests include medical education, clinical dermatology, tropical dermatology, dermatologic surgery, mycology, and infectious diseases. Hirak B. Routh, MBBS, Managing Editor Doctor Hirak Routh received his medical degree from Mymensingh Medical College in Bangladesh, where he also did post-graduate training. He then worked for the Ministry of Health in Iran before coming to Philadelphia to study dermatology at the Jefferson Center for International Dermatology at Thomas Jefferson University. He is currently Senior Vice-President at Paddington Testing Company, Inc. in Philadelphia, where he has conducted numerous clinical trials in all phases of development of dermatologics. He has published on a variety of subjects ranging from tropical dermatology to balneology and from the history of the usage of soap to traditional Indian medicine. Mohamed A. Amer, MD, Editorial Board Member Professor Mohamed A. Amer, Cairo, Egypt received his MB, BCH in 1964 from Ain Shams University, Diploma in Dermatology and Venereology in 1969, Diploma in Medicine in 1971, and his MD in 1974, also from Ain Shams University. He is currently Emeritus Professor Dermatology and Venereology at Zagazig University in Zagazig, Egypt, where also he was at one-time President of the University. He is currently Visiting Professor of Dermatology at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA and Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA. He is best known for having organized the Zagazig Conference of Dermatology and Venereology, a biennial event held in Cairo since 1980, now known as the Cairo Derma Congress. In addition to being Editor-in-Chief of the African Journal of Dermatology, he is currently on the Editorial Board of SKINmed, Turkish Journal of Dermatopathology, Egyptian Journal of Dermatology, Egyptian Journal of Andrology and Reproduction, and Kosmetische Medizin, to mention just a few of the publications. Professor Amer serves as a member of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Higher Education and the Egyptian Food and Drug Administration. He is Vice-President of the International Academy of Cosmetic Dermatology, President of the African Association for Dermatology and Venereology, and President of the Mediterranean Association of Dermatology and Venereology. He is currently in the private practice of dermatology in Cairo. Jean Bolognia, MD, Editorial Board Member Jean Bolognia, MD, is Professor of Dermatology at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, where she also attended medical school. This was followed by an internship and residency in both Internal Medicine and Dermatology at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She has served as President of the Medical Dermatology Society, the Women’s Dermatologic Society, and the American Dermatological Association, in addition to serving as Vice-President of the Society of Investigative Dermatology, the American Board of Dermatology, and the International Society of Dermatology. She has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Dermatology and the International League of Dermatological Societies. In the latter organization, she currently serves as Secretary-General. Doctor Bolognia is the senior editor of the textbook Dermatology, which is now in its fourth edition, and a shorter book, Dermatology Essentials. Her list of publications includes over 200 contributions and book chapters. Doctor Bologna has been the recipient of the 2018 Samuel J. Zakon Lectureship of the History of Dermatology Society. Sarah Brenner, MD, Editorial Board Member Section Editor for Bibliography Professor Sarah Brenner is a graduate of Tel Aviv University, completing her medical training at the University of Graz Medical School in Austria and at the Sackler School of Medicine of Tel Aviv University. She took her post-graduate training in the Department of Dermatology at Ichilov Hospital, an affiliate of the Sackler School of Medicine of Tel Aviv University. From 1989 until 2008, she was Head of the Department of Dermatology at the Sourasky Medical Center of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, She has Guest Edited an issue on the role of gender in dermatologic disease, which evolved into the book, An Illustrated Manual of Gender Dermatology, and another on women’s dermatology, from which developed the textbook Women’s Dermatology: from Infancy to Maturity and the Atlas of Women’s Dermatology: from Infancy to Maturity. Christopher B. Bunker, MA, MD, FRCP, Editorial Board Member Chris Bunker is Consultant Dermatologist at University College and Chelsea & Westminster, Hospitals, London, UK. He has a personal Chair at Imperial College and University College, London, UK. He was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, UK and Westminster Medical School, London, UK and trained in Dermatology at The Middlesex and University College Hospitals, London, UK. He was awarded the Cambridge University Sir Walter Langdon-Brown prize for his MD thesis. He is a Past-President of the British Association of Dermatologists, St John's Hospital Dermatological Society, the Dermatology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and the Dowling Club. He has delivered the Royal College of Physicians Ingram Lecture (twice), the Dowling Oration, and the Neil Smith Lecture. He is currently the UK Board Member of the European Academy of Dermatovenereology and Secretary of the British Skin Foundation. His clinical and research interests include toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN), melanoma, male genital dermatoses, and HIV dermatology and has been invited to lecture on these topics frequently – in the UK and abroad. He has published over 330 papers, case reports, books, and chapters, including on TEN. His publication metrics are: h-index 35; i10-index 138; citations 5,336; Research Gate 45.93; top 97.5%. Philip R. Cohen, MD, Editorial Board Member Section Editor for Dermatologic Disquisitions and Other Essays Doctor Philip R. Cohen is Professor of Dermatology at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, whose faculty he joined in 2013. Dr. Cohen joined the faculty in January 2013. He received his BA degree from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA and
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